Tori Tecken
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| I picked this book up as part of a random "Read Your Shelves" challenge, not sure if I'd jive with it or not, and I was immediately intrigued and hooked by the concept of an epic fantasy told through the lens of a high-ranking authority figure from t ...more | |
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| When I started this book, I was expecting epic fantasy. I wasn't expecting a brilliant mashup of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Friedman takes a classic Dracula vampire trope and flips it on its head, using it as a backdrop to explore redempti ...more | |
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Sea of Souls shines brightest in its attention to atmosphere and mythology. I love when fantasy authors dig into lesser known mythological creatures, and the presence of the selkies in this book were fascinating. The story has a bleak, sea-sprayed at ...more |
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| An improvement over the last volume, I'm still intrigued to see how Sanbe is going to wrap up the story in only two more installments. ...more | |
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| Some good progression on the series, but I always worry with body swap style tropes that the author is going to fall into the trap of "omg, I have different body parts" and unfortunately this was no different. I don't think this series is as engaging ...more | |
“If there’s something people fear more than death, it’s being forgotten. Of being insignificant like the dirt somewhere underneath the snow. But I figure sticks tied into a cross aren’t much of a remembering. If there aren’t people living and breathing who remember you fondly, well then, I guess you might not be worth remembering much.”
― Cold Silver for Souls
― Cold Silver for Souls
“When I get this awful anxious feeling twisting my guts around in knots, it won’t stop until I give it a little piece of me. Life’s been ripping little pieces of me away for years.”
― Cold Silver for Souls
― Cold Silver for Souls
“Royce traveled wrapped in his cloak with the weight of the rain collapsing the hood around his head—not a good sign for Thranic and Bernie. Until then, Royce had played the part of the good little sailor, but with the reemergence of the hood, and the loss of his white kerchief, Hadrian knew that role had ended. They had not spoken much since the attack. Not surprisingly, Royce was in no mood for idle discussion. Hadrian guessed that by now his friend had imagined killing Thranic a dozen times, with a few Bernies thrown in here and there for variety. Hadrian had seen Royce wounded before and was familiar with the cocooning—only what would emerge from that cloak and hood would not be a butterfly.”
― Rise of Empire
― Rise of Empire
“You can tell much about a man by the company he keeps, by his friends, and his enemies,”
― Malice
― Malice
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men - Forum
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I'm setting up a Goodreads group for anyone who is interested in The Children of Gods and Fighting Men and The Gael Song series. ...more





















































