How Sweet It is
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Single mom Lizzie Bea Carpenter learned long ago that no white knight was coming to save her. A...
The Difficulty of Breathing
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Has the man in the moon ever whispered to you? Did you ever wondered what happened to your white...
YA Coming of Age LGBTQ
Batman, Volume 7: Endgame
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Batman's greatest foe has returned for one last gag-but this time, not even the Joker is laughing....
Silk Road (Epic Adventure #1)
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Silk Road weaves a spellbinding tale of courage, danger and human frailty onto the vast tapestry of...
David McK (3906 KP) rated Silk Road (Epic Adventure #1) in Books
Jun 29, 2025
I'm glad I did.
Set (initially) in the Holy Land not long after the Third Crusade, this follows Templar Knight Josseran Sarrazini as he is tasked with accompanying the Domincan Friar William as an envoy to the Mongols, just as their previous Khan dies necessitating a journey along the Silk Road of the title towards the Mongolian capital Xanadu - further than either have ever travelled before, and with new experiences for both - and just as a civil war is about to break out amongst the Mongolian nation itself over who will be next Khan.
I may read some more of Falconers's 'Epic Adventure' series in the future.
Task force Z #1
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In life, they’ve terrorized the people of Gotham. Now, they are Gotham’s last hope. Task...
I loved the characters: Kissen, a Godkiller who loves her job; a girl with a couple of rather large secrets, one of which is Skediceth, a small god who is tied to her. Which is something of a conundrum for Kissen. If she kills the little god of white lies, will she kill the child as well? And then there’s Elogast, a Knight turned baker, who has to ask one last favour from a god for his best friend. Why the god would do anything for him is a mystery - after all, Elogast killed many gods and destroyed their shrines during the God Wars.
The world building in this is epic, the pacing is perfect, and it’s just an overall exciting, thrilling ride of a story.
I need more asap!
A Flight of Arrows (The Hundred Years War #1)
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Two kings. Two nations. One crown. 1328. After years of civil unrest between England and France,...
David McK (3906 KP) rated A Flight of Arrows (The Hundred Years War #1) in Books
Sep 17, 2023
Especially when it was on Amazon as #1 in archery.
Unfortunately, I found it rather sluggish in parts, with it never really gripping my attention the same way as a historical novel by Bernard Cornwell or Simon Scarrow or Angus Donald does.
This is set during the early stages of the 100 Years War (which lasted for 116 years), and is really a detective/spy story (rather than concentrating on the lives of the archers) as the herald Simon Merrivale investigates the assassination of an English knight , leading up to and including the Battle of Crecy.
Don't get me wrong - I enjoyed the history, and learning a bit more about the times and the background to the war; I just wish it had gripped me more somewhat.
Maybe the sequels will follow through on that ... ?
David McK (3906 KP) rated Robin Hood and the Holy Grail (Outlaw Chronicles #12) in Books
Oct 4, 2026
it also very much ties in with book 5 in the series ('Grail Knight'], as here Robin and his men - looking for a way to be able to go home again - are searching for a relic they had previously found and hidden, which has since been rediscovered and hidden by others.
For myself, I've always found Angus Donald's 'Outlaw' series to be the best and most enjoyable of the various series' he has written, and this is no exception: if this is truly the last, I'd be sad to see it finish.