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Ben Emery

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Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Ebooks

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David Gemmell, Bernard Cornwell, J. R. R. Tolkien, Valerio Massimo Man ...more

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Genius. Astounding. Handsome. These are but a few words Ben Emery is capable of spelling correctly.

Having grown up in rural southwest England, reading, writing, and fabricating fantastical places became as much a means of passing the time as it did a hobby.

Getting lost in the worlds of Tolkien, Pullman and Gemmell, became, and remains to this day, a means of escaping the terrifying and horse-shit day and age we're currently slogging through.

Having neglected to actually go to lectures, University instead became a means by which Ben could write and still have a reasonable excuse for not getting a job. Those were the days. Still, it took years before 'The Rise of Kings' finally gained any semblance of the book it is today. And it's still not ...more

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The best thing I've read for a while

Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #3)

Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

For the untold billions that have been desperately awaiting to hear some review or other from me, I apologise in the delay; I have been busy with far less important tasks than reading. Anyway, to the matter at hand.

[insert slow clap here] This book was fantastic. Easily the best of the three in the series, and, despite the length of it, Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 09, 2017 07:25 • Tags: etc, fantasy, review

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