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Steven Raaymakers
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A Canticle of Two Souls (Aria of Steel, #1)
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2018
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5 editions
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A Canticle for the Fallen (Aria of Steel, #2)
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2019
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4 editions
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Blade of the Wanderer (Scars of Magic, #1)
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A Canticle of War (Aria of Steel, #3)
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2022
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4 editions
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The Aria of Steel Trilogy
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2022
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3 editions
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Fire in the Hearth (Scars of Magic Book 2)
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| Orders of Magnitude is a gripping novella that presents a chilling dive into the incensepunk subgenre. I have never read something like this, a subgenre blending science fiction with rich, religious aesthetics. The closest book I have read would be A ...more | |
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Third Contact by Peter Aldin is excellent scifi. Aldin's prose is solid throughout. He's a deft hand with the craft, from action to tension, dialogue to introverted musing, and absolutely everything in between. The pacing was on-point. Nothing kills my ...more |
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"4.5/5 Very good fantasy book. Found family, the ultimate animal companion, tension, action, sacrifice, & interesting magic. Relationships were interesting and went beyond the surface."
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A heartwarming fantasy tale with the cutest direwolf of all time. The Hunter is an action-packed fantasy book with genuinely awesome characters. The hunter is the standard mysterious, stoic ranger, but he is also a lot more. Likewise with the little t ...more |
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Blade of the Wanderer (Scars of Magic, #1):
"What a fun book to read! In a dark and brutal way. Scars of Magic is a dark fantasy series with tons of monsters, enemies and danger everywhere. And honestly it felt like playing a video game where your heart is beating so hard in every dangerous pla"
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Blade of the Wanderer (Scars of Magic, #1):
"Now, that is what I call an immersive experience.
Steven, you had me at the first sentence. or the should I say that your book did? We jumped straight into action in a tract, I felt the need to survive, and I was almost winded when we reached the end o" Read more of this review » |
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The first story is a gut punch. It felt inspired by Black Mirror, and the writing was so clinical, almost like the stagnant false-calm one gets with depression. It fit perfectly with the story. The story about a simple change of eye colour was a wonde ...more |
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| This is an interesting dive into a dark world. The main character is banished (excommunicated, one might say) from her convent, and joins a famous group of soldiers. She is accepted into the group for various reasons, but primarily because she has ac ...more | |
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“Humankind was constant in its need to commit ignoble acts upon itself, to visit pain and torture and death unto the many who formed the whole, to turn against its own being like a rabid wolf gnawing its own legs away”
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“The sword pierced the general’s neck before he registered the movement.
“Just a child!” His mind screamed as the blade bit deeper.
“Just a child!” The blade chinked against his spine, a sound he refused to accept, a sound he had heard too often not to recognise.
“Just a child!” His sight faltered, disappeared, all life vanishing in one sharp spurt of pain.
“Just a child!” as Raziel damned his soul to hell.”
― A Canticle of Two Souls
“Just a child!” His mind screamed as the blade bit deeper.
“Just a child!” The blade chinked against his spine, a sound he refused to accept, a sound he had heard too often not to recognise.
“Just a child!” His sight faltered, disappeared, all life vanishing in one sharp spurt of pain.
“Just a child!” as Raziel damned his soul to hell.”
― A Canticle of Two Souls
“It's a dark world where the dead are cursed and the cursed still live.”
― A Canticle for the Fallen
― A Canticle for the Fallen
“That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.”
― Pulp Fiction
― Pulp Fiction
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they became with it, and with themselves as well. They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness and power and beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier to see something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow. When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle's eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
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