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Red Nails - the last story that Robert E Howard published in his life time before his tragic passing. I won't say it's the best one, but this has much more to offer compared to the last couple stories in this collection. The city feels very well realised with its horror elements, the heroine felt like a response to certain critcism and wasn't bad. Overall pretty good and excited to read the novel next.

Beautiful ending… I will wait for another day to read the biographical note and reflections by the author in terms of the composition of the novel. Considering it’s 1/5 of the book and knowing the vague history already it’s going to be interesting.

Before I said i was seriously reading now, well this time I truly am! did most of this within a day.

Okay now I’m actually reading this novel. Man, I did not expect the prose to be so profound, beautiful? It has been said the author spent almost 2 decades continuously rewriting it and it shows with her string of words. I’m definitely intrigued for the upcoming chapters.

So far, it has been quite good. It leans much towards police procedural/ business business bureaucracy than I expected. Considering the cover… The reasoning for it is pretty cool though and the general world building much more interesting than I expected. As I sorta just thought it would be window dressing, but the setting is very much important to the core of the novel from a plot perspective and thematically.

Part 3 has been utterly fantastic so far

I’ve been very slow with my reading of this book, I’m hoping to kick it up a notch tomorrow onwards and finish it within the week.

Shadows in Zamboula - It's was a decent Conan story for what it's worth. Though the racists connotations have aged very poorly. Where Conan is dropped into a mixed society with all sorts of ethincities, but only the black folks are considered slaves and later revealed are cannibals. With a pronouced white supremacist worldview. There is some very good moments, but sometimes it is immersion breaking.

1-3 more days of reading… man I’m excited to see how this concludes.