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Ian Segal
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Ian Segal is an American author of dark fantasy, speculative fiction, literary fiction, mythic fiction, and philosophical tales.
His work wanders through ruined histories, forbidden books, ancestral debts, and the treacherous places where memory refuses to stay buried. In his stories, ink indicts, betrayal breeds, and fate bares its fangs—usually after politely pretending it had no teeth at all.
Drawn to haunting prose, moral consequence, and worlds where beauty survives by candlelight, Ian writes of shadowed thresholds, broken oaths, old griefs, and the dangerous business of rewriting what should have remained forgotten.
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Castling the Crowns
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The Orphan Sage
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Blackwood's Quill
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The Awakened Slumber of Sleeping Gods
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I went into The Blacktongue Thief expecting to understand why so many respected fantasy authors and reviewers praised it so highly. Instead, I found myself increasingly puzzled by the acclaim. The greatest disappointment is Kinch himself. A first-pers ...more |
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"This bums me out like no other, but I am finally allowing myself to DNF this book. I haven't read much Joe Abercrombie (One book, in fact - The Blade Itself. Very much enjoyed), but I know his reputation as the "master of grimdark fantasy". So when i"
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"I am so sorry to all when I say I did not enjoy this :(
This was my first Abercrombie, and I have to say I expected a lot more the way some of y’all talk about him. The writing was insanely repetitive, the comedy felt like it was written by a 12 year " Read more of this review » |
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"Feels co-produced by Marvel Studios or something. Endless quips, endless action blew up the page count, uninteresting worldbuilding."
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“The longest road to finding yourself is the one that begins at home, and ends at your home.”
― Castling the Crowns
― Castling the Crowns
“Your destiny will not carry you over the long and winding path of life. You must walk it yourself.”
― Castling the Crowns
― Castling the Crowns
“Your destiny will not carry you over the long and winding path of life. You must walk it yourself.”
― Castling the Crowns
― Castling the Crowns
“Listen not to the words that have been spoken, but bend your ears to what has not been said.”
― Castling the Crowns
― Castling the Crowns
“The cornerstone of our thoughts begins with the spirited flames of our far-reaching imagination.”
― Castling the Crowns
― Castling the Crowns
“The longest road to finding yourself is the one that begins at home, and ends at your home.”
― Castling the Crowns
― Castling the Crowns
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A group to chat about SFF books. Authors and readers welcome. I might post about my books and the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off too. I plan on maki ...more