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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated Plain Truth in Books
Sep 3, 2018
This is what novels should aspire to be. I read this when it first came out and it went into a box where I recently came across it again. With many novels, it's one and done. I read it once and there is no point in reading it again. But not this one. This is one to savor again and again because each time you read it you come across some gem that you missed before. The suspense is palpable. The drama is real. The heart and soul are apparent on every page. I highly recommend it.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge....
Barry Hines: Kes, Threads and Beyond
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Barry Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave, adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known...
David McK (3798 KP) rated Sword in The Storm (Rigante #1) in Books
Sep 7, 2025
This is the first in David Gemmell's Rigante quartet of books, which is really largely a duolougy of two: the first two novels (this and Midnight Falcon in a quasi historical Scottish highlands setting, and the latter two (Ravenheart and Stormrider) set centuries on from the events of the previous novels, still in a quasi-historical Scottish highlands setting (more akin to the times of the English Civil Wars, with the first two more akin to the times of the Roman Empire)
All four novels are also largely 'coming of age' tales, with this entry following the childhood and early adulthood of Connavar, who is given the soul name "The Sword in the Storm" at this birth and who -initially, at least - grows up believing his father - who died shortly after he was born - to be a coward, despite his stepfather Ruathain (his fathers best friend) trying to convince him otherwise.
As with all of Gemmell's work, well worth a read!
All four novels are also largely 'coming of age' tales, with this entry following the childhood and early adulthood of Connavar, who is given the soul name "The Sword in the Storm" at this birth and who -initially, at least - grows up believing his father - who died shortly after he was born - to be a coward, despite his stepfather Ruathain (his fathers best friend) trying to convince him otherwise.
As with all of Gemmell's work, well worth a read!
David McK (3798 KP) rated The Loki Sword (Fireborn #3) in Books
Sep 18, 2022
I'm not sure why, but for some reason I haven't really connected with Angus Donald's 'Fire Born' novels, finding them to be the weakest of his three series that I have read (The Outlaw Chronicles and the Holcroft Blood series).
I don't know why that is; it's just one of those things.
However, I'll still read these novels, just not be in as much of a rush to do so as with the others.
This is the third in his FireBorn series (after both The Last Berserker: An action-packed Viking adventure and The Saxon Wolf: A Viking epic of berserkers and battle) and is also, for my money, the best of those three novels. That may be because of the nature of this - a band of travellers setting out on a quest, leading to a battle and a return home, with the author himself admitting the influence of the works of JRR Tolkien on this particular entry.
I don't know why that is; it's just one of those things.
However, I'll still read these novels, just not be in as much of a rush to do so as with the others.
This is the third in his FireBorn series (after both The Last Berserker: An action-packed Viking adventure and The Saxon Wolf: A Viking epic of berserkers and battle) and is also, for my money, the best of those three novels. That may be because of the nature of this - a band of travellers setting out on a quest, leading to a battle and a return home, with the author himself admitting the influence of the works of JRR Tolkien on this particular entry.
Yoshi (40 KP) rated The Radleys in Books
May 19, 2018
B (15 KP) rated The Dark Tower - Dark Tower VII in Books
Jan 24, 2018
Lumos (380 KP) rated The Stonekeeper (Amulet, #1) in Books
Apr 3, 2018
Cynthia Armistead (17 KP) rated Enchantment Place in Books
Mar 1, 2018
