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Take control of a mythic ghost ship or your sister dies isn’t much of a choice – CBR 14 Bingo: Star

Ship of Smoke and Steel: The Wells of Sorcery, Book One by Django Wexler

July 21, 2022 by Dome'Loki 1 Comment

CBR14 Bingo: “Star” – Astronomy used to calculate where a ship on the ocean is located and where it’s sailing to is an important driver of the story. I’ve grown to quite like author Django Wexler’s work. But somehow I missed that he released an entire YA trilogy between two adult series. Book one, A Ship of Smoke and Steel, was picked up on the next trip to Mysterious Galaxy. Ted got to it first and devoured it in days. Then he was thrilled to […]

“Sure, why not take your mortally wounded lover and shove her into an ancient machine of uncertain effectiveness? What could go wrong?”

Blood of the Chosen: Burningblade & Silvereye Book Two by Django Wexler

May 2, 2022 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

Wexler continues writing excellent sci-fantasy. I love the melding of energy swords and healing magics. A highly, technically advanced civilization that has fallen. Magic is held in the hands of a few, tech is tightly controlled and scrounged from remnants of the previous age. Life is very different depending on where you live, within the Republic, in the splinter kingdoms, or outside on the fringes. Blood of the Chosen picks up immediately after the events of Ashes of the Sun. A potentially humanity ending calamity […]

Fallen highly advanced civilization, tech magic vs. bio magic, and two siblings on opposite sides of the divide.

Ashes of the Sun: Burningblade & Silvereye Book One by Django Wexler

April 26, 2022 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

More than 400 years ago there were two powerful entities, the Chosen and those who are now called ghouls. The Chosen wielded a magical power called deiat. With deiat they powered technological marvels like sky fortresses and more mundane blaster pistols. The ghouls channeled a biological magic called dhak. With dhak they could do amazing feats of healing and creation of bio constructs for any application. Dhak could also be twisted to create horrible monsters, plaguespawn, as creatures and humans could be hybridized. 400 hundreds […]

When You Literally Get Sucked Into a Story

The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler

December 6, 2019 by The Chancellor 2 Comments

The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The Forbidden Library” is a quasi-steampunk, fantasy novel. Alice discovers that her world isn’t what it seems when she happens to overhear and see her father talking with a fairy. This leads to some circumstances that throws her world upside down. She ends up living with her “uncle” Geryon who has a library that she’s not allowed to visit unless she accompanied by Geryon. Of course she wants to discover the place for […]

Django Wexler’s “The Shadow Campaigns” series took me on one heck of a ride

The Guns of Empire: Book 4 of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler

The Infernal Battalion: Book 5 of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler

August 31, 2019 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

This review specifically covers the last two books in Djanjo Wexler’s “The Shadow Campaigns” series, book four, The Guns of Empire, and the conclusion in book five, The Infernal Battalion but also discusses the series as a whole. Each book of The Shadow Campaigns gets a 4 star rating, however the strength of the series as a whole is 5 stars. With each book Wexler expands the scope of the story and fills in the world with greater detail. The Thousand Names is a military […]

Genius military tactics, intriguing magic, a queen trying to save her people from threats internal and external, and LGBTQ characters

The Price of Valor: Book Three of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler

July 2, 2019 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

As this is the third book in the series, perhaps you should check out my review of the first book The Thousand Names: Book One of the Shadow Campaigns, which is predominantly about a military campaign. The second book, The Shadow Throne, switches gears and is about political intrigue and power struggles. This third book, The Price of Valor, is combination of both and an excellent continuation of the series. Note about the cover art of the books: I originally found them off putting as […]

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