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Review: “Assassin’s Apprentice” by Robin Hobb
Moving to the third book on my overdue review list brings me to Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb. I enjoyed this coming-of-age story about a noble bastard training to become a royal assassin. It’s a well-paced, touching story that sets up a trilogy of novels.
The story is set in the fictional medieval world of the Six Duchies, where each member of the royal family takes the name of t
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| "Dragon Teeth" is one of the novels published after Michael Crichton’s passing, and, like many of those works, it feels a little less polished than his most famous books. Still, it’s an interesting blend of historical fiction and adventure that almos ...more | |
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| “Best Served Cold” is the best book I’ve read so far in 2026. It’s a nearly perfect grimdark tale filled with Joe Abercrombie’s signature humor, brutal betrayals, thrilling set pieces, and endearing characters. Main character Monza Murcatto is unforg ...more | |
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| Two things stood out quickly in “Throne of the Crescent Moon.” The first was its medieval Arabian setting, reminiscent of “One Thousand and One Nights.” The second was its richly drawn characters, led by an aging, overweight ghul hunter, Adoulla Makh ...more | |
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| I feel safe saying that Mark Lawrence’s “Broken Empire” series is a grimdark fantasy classic. “Emperor of Thorns” concludes the series, which has grown stronger with each installment. Jorg Ancrath, the ruthless sociopath of book one, evolves into a m ...more | |
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| “The Liar’s Key” might be my favorite stop yet in Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire. The story follows cowardly yet charming Prince Jalan Kendeth and his Viking companion Snorri as they travel across the Broken Empire with a key that can open any door. S ...more | |
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| In “King of Thorns,” Mark Lawrence delivers a brutal yet brilliant follow-up to “Prince of Thorns.” Jorg Ancrath remains ruthless, but this time his struggle with guilt, ambition, and a haunting secret makes him both more compelling and strangely sym ...more | |
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| Joe Abercrombie’s “The Devils” is the best fantasy novel I’ve read so far this year. It’s hilarious, brutal, fast-paced, and full of heart. The premise: a young monk is ordered to lead a team of magically bound monsters—vampire, werewolf, necromancer ...more | |
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| I picked up “The Ludwig Conspiracy” before a trip to Bavaria, and it turned out to be a great blend of mystery, history, and travel inspiration. The plot alternates between modern-day Munich, where a reclusive bookseller uncovers a dangerous secret, ...more | |
“One event that is both history and myth is the rain of blood around the year 1000 in Aquitaine and elsewhere in France. Reports exist from the early eleventh century of a blood rain that “fell upon the clothes of many men, and so stained them with gore that they shuddered at the sight of their own garments and tore them off.” Fulbert of Chartres wrote that account in a letter to King Robert of France, after the worried king received a report from Duke William V about a rain of blood that fell in Aquitaine. Scientists today believe that historical reports of blood rain may have been due to dust containing iron oxide,”
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“The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish text, which indeed elaborates on the cryptic verse from Genesis 6:4: “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterwards—when the sons of God went into the daughters of men.” While scholars disagree about when the book was actually written (with some putting it at ca. 300 B.C.), the book is cited in the New Testament Letter of Jude and the First Letter of Peter, and copies of it were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The book was clearly known to first-century Jews and Christians but was considered apocryphal by St. Augustine, among others, and disappeared for more than a thousand years. By the tenth century, the Book of Enoch would have been considered a lost work of scripture, only to be rediscovered centuries later, in 1773, by the Scottish explorer James Bruce during his travels in Abyssinia (Ethiopia).”
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