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My favorite did not die but is like being corrupted???
This is worse?
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I finished The Kingfall Histories series by David Estes in less than two weeks.
Those were not short books but I was so hooked.
The stakes are pretty high through the entire series, so the end wasn't a big build up, but the expansive epilogues made up for that. It was a satisfying meandering through the peace most of the characters found after the brutal events of the series.
I am going to read the Fatemarked series at some point by the same author, but I am going to take a break from addictive fantasy series for a minute. lol
#muttering about reading#The Kingfall Histories#I recommend this series#Not perfect but it's very good#Epic fantasy series
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BALIOC’S READING LIST, 2022 EDITION
With one exception, this list counts only published books, consumed in published-book format, that I read for the first time and finished. (There was one serious-seeming book that, as far as I know, exists only in free-floating PDF form.) No rereads, nothing abandoned halfway through, no Internet detritus of any kind apart from the aforementioned, etc. Also no children’s picture books.
1. The Blue Castle, Lucy Maude Montgomery
2. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Priya Parker
3. The Girl and the Mountain, Mark Lawrence
4. There Is No Antimemetics Division, qntm
5. Dreamsnake, Vonda N. McIntyre
6. War and State Building in Medieval Japan, Various (ed. John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth)
7. Legal Systems Very Different From Ours, David Friedman, Peter T. Leeson, and David Skarbek
8. The Revolutions, Felix Gilman
9. Age of Ash, Daniel Abraham
10. When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin
11. Summer in Orcus, T. Kingfisher
12. The Thousand Eyes, A. K. Larkwood
13. Kingfall, David Estes
14. Surrogation, Suspended Reason
15. The Hands of the Emperor, Victoria Goddard
16. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
17. Hakkenden -- Part 1: "An Ill-Considered Jest," Kyokutei Bakin
18. Claws of the Cat, Susan Spann
19. Blade of the Samurai, Susan Spann
20. Flask of the Drunken Master, Susan Spann
21. The Ninja's Daughter, Susan Spann
22. Betrayal at Iga, Susan Spann
23. Trial at Mount Koya, Susan Spann
24. Ghost of the Bamboo Road, Susan Spann
25. Fires of Edo, Susan Spann
26. The Discord of Gods, Jenn Lyons
27. All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay
28. Don Rodriguez: Chronicles of Shadow Valley, Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany
29. Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success, Ran Abramitzky and Leah Bousyan
30. Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
31. Perhaps the Stars, Ada Palmer
32. Dreadgod, Will Wight
33. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
34. Manfred, George Gordon, Lord Byron
35. Friend to Mankind: Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), Various (ed. Michael Shepherd)
36. Locklands, Robert Jackson Bennett
37. The Jade Setter of Janloon, Fonda Lee
38. Spring Snow, Yukio Mishima
39. Against All Gods, Miles Cameron
40. Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir
41. Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century, J. Bradford DeLong
42. The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik
43. The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty, Vol. I, George R. R. Martin, Elio M. Garcia Jr., and Linda Antonsson
44. A Garter as a Lesser Gift, Aster Glenn Gray
45. The Night-Bird's Feather, Jenna Moran
46. Absolution by Murder, Peter Tremayne
47. The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson
48. Shroud for the Archbishop, Peter Tremayne
49. Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter, Richard Parks
50. Yamada Monogatari: To Break the Demon Gate, Richard Parks
51. Yamada Monogatari: The War God's Son, Richard Parks
52. Yamada Monogatari: The Emperor in Shadow, Richard Parks
53. Pulling the Wings off Angels, K. J. Parker
54. Laurus, Eugene Vodolazkin
55. The Ogre's Wife: Fairy Tales for Grownups, Richard Parks
56. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Plausible works of improving nonfiction consumed in 2021: 7
[“plausible” and “improving” are being defined very liberally here]
Works written by women consumed in 2021: 23
Works written by men consumed in 2021: 29
Works written by both men and women consumed in 2021: 4
Balioc’s Choice Award, Fiction Division: The Remains of the Day
>>>> Honorable Mention: Laurus
Balioc’s Choice Award, Nonfiction Division: Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
>>>> Honorable Mention: War and State Building in Medieval Japan
Series Award for: A Deeply Flawed Work of Luminescent Genius, No Really, This Thing is Artistically and Intellectually Important and Its Flaws Only Make It More So, Dear God What Were They Thinking Not Giving It the Hugo -- the Terra Ignora books, by Ada Palmer
Series Award for: I Cannot Begin to Articulate How Mad I Am That These Books of All Books Have Become Cultural Touchstones of My Local Social and Artistic Circle -- the Locked Tomb books, by Tamsyn Muir
Series Award for: I Must Give Credit to a Brave Author Who Makes Unexpected Moves and Tries New Things with Every Book, Even if Everything She Tries is Terrible -- the Locked Tomb books, by Tamsyn Muir
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Fiction-wise, this was actually a better year than you'd think from just eyeballing the list. The overall numbers are still below par, and there's too much shlocky formulaic mystery-series-type stuff; but there was a lot of real quality in there. I had real trouble deciding on my top two, and I ended up not giving either prize to a book by Jenna Moran writing at her normal level of quality, so that says something. There were a number of books that disappointed by not being amazing but that I'm still glad to have read (e.g. Summer in Orcus, The Hands of the Emperor). Even the shlocky formulaic stuff had more merit than you might expect, in many cases.
Serious contemplatively-emotional litfic is real good, at its best. Turns out.
Non-fiction-wise, this was a shitshow of unparalleled proportions. I read almost nothing, and what I read was uninspiring. (I started s number of things that I failed to finish, which didn't help.) I seriously considered making this a "no award" year. I am once again asking for your recommendations for really good, deeply-informative, blow-your-mind-open non-fiction.
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I picture Ando as Aragorn and Sola as Legolas and I know Sola doesn't look anything like that in the book but that is still how I picture them.
#kingfall#the kingfall histories#some day someone is going to check tumblr for this fandom#and i will be like: its me i'm the fandom#High Commander Andovier Helm#Sola
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I read that whole series in less than 2 weeks 😳
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My only problem with the way the series ended is that it was so high stakes the whole time that it kinda felt like it just stopped. There wasn't really a big build up.
I still enjoyed it and look forward to the....200 pages of epilogues.
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The shadowblades interacting with their wielders is so interesting.
At first it seemed like they just warped the weilders, but as the story goes on it seems like they almost enable or train their wielders to face and control their worst qualities.
#The Kingfall Histories#shadowblades#the godblades#kinda wish the swords had names#they are all a little different in power and personality
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Aw, they have learned to talk. Good job Dane and Peony.
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Oh, just casually going to introduce Dane to his great-grandfather who used to used to carry Dane's wife's brightblade.
#Endfall#endfall spoilers#The Kingfall Histories#there is so much telepathic communication with sword welding dragon riders
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Hmm I think Nightfall might be my favorite book in this series.
I enjoyed Dragonfall a lot too.
#the kingfall histories#Nightfall#in part cause the whole Drake aquires some zombies#and Dane and Peony figure out how to talk to eachother
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Aw come on, her too? He already has a zombie dragon....
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There is one thread in this series that I don't really care for and I am in a massive chunk of it today.
#i want to know about sampson and whatever is happening on Dragonsmount#the kingfall histories#Nightfall#i don't really like the Prudence/godling bit
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I love when Dane and Peony realize they don't know basic or really significant things about each other because they keep spending their rare quiet moments together....um not talking and they are both like "ugh, we should have just talked."
It's not a common way to handle a passionate marriage relationship. They do the stereotypical passionate response to each other but when they go about the chaos of their lives together they keep finding out things from the people around them that are like "do you guys even talk to each other cause how did you not know that?"
Just as a note, there are no explicit sex screens in this series. Just to be clear since I was just talking about smutt this morning.
#I mean sometimes they talk#but there is just so much happening all the time and they spent like 2 books apart#reading things#the kingfall histories#Nightfall
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The brightades be like: it was always you, you are capable.
The shadowblades be like: I am going to wait until you need me to save you, then you can have me but be immediately in my debt.
And poor Quill gets the nicest shadowblade but also has an unforgiven riding around with him.
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Okay, like, this Kingfall series is so good.
Sampson functioning after throwing away his shadowblade and giving up his sight, then immediately regretting it and trying to get it back. The strength to throw away the power of the blade, give up his sight because he knew the shadows were corrupting him.
Even with his immediate regret, he still goes on and tries to make restitution for what he did under the shadowblade's influence.
Then his like adopted dad finds the blade, then like takes it captive, willing to die to keep it from getting back to Sampson.
Just, the way these characters, all of them, have to wrestle with their demons, and the bonds they form to the people around them is so much fun.
I just can't help but cheer for them and be outraged for them and beg for the author to stop being mean to these poor noble but flawed characters.
I am reading the ebooks, but I might get hardcovers to add to my library.
I was not expecting to enjoy a series, where the first book was free, this much.
#the kingfall histories#sampson gaard#roman leary#reading things#even the blades have different personalities
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