Book Review: The Bear and the Nightingale

The Bear and the Nightingale is a soothing, familiar story. Katerine Arden tells her narrative with beautiful delicate phrases plucked from gossamer and fey. It leans, like the works of Charles DeLint, on folk tales and sets them into reality although Arden’s reality is a foregone Russia in the place of DeLint’s modern Ottawa. It […]

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Book Review: Wrath of Empire

In the weeks that pass between the conclusion of Sin of the Empire and the start of Wrath of Empire, the Dynize have been busy. They have staked holds on the continent and their forces are consolidating in search of ancient artifacts needed to birth or resurrect a god. Our heroes, in the meantime, are […]

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