Tag Archives: Glen Cook

FLASHBACK FRIDAY — DARKWAR by GLEN COOK

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Bookwraiths

As most of my friends know, I am a Glen Cook fan, have been since I was a teenager in the 1980s and read The Black Company. That quintessential grimdark fantasy (before there was even the term) blew my mind, … Continue reading →

Posted in 4 Stars, Cross-Genre, Fantasy, Flashback Friday, High, Science Fiction | Tagged 80s fantasy, Darkwar, fantasy scifi genre benders, Flashback Friday, Glen Cook, overlooked 80s fantasy books, scifi fantasy novels, The Black Company, underappreciated fantasy books, underappreciated fantasy novels | 2 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELING — ENFORCERS

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Bookwraiths

Every Thursday, Nathan over at Fantasy Review Barn hosts a weekly party where blogs set out with Diana Wynne Jones’ hilarious book The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel in hand to explore all the tropes … Continue reading →

Posted in Lists, Tough Traveling | Tagged best fantasy characters, best fantasy lists, best fantasy novels, christopher paolini, Darth Vader, durza, enforcers, eragon, Glen Cook, inheritance cycle, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, luke castellan, nazgul, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, percy jackspn, Rick Riordan, sith lords, Star Wars, The Black Company, the ten who were taken, the witch-king of angmar, Tough Traveling | 11 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELING — HIGH PRIESTS

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Bookwraiths

Every Thursday, Nathan over at Fantasy Review Barn hosts a weekly party where blogs get to follow along with Diana Wynne Jones’ hilarious book The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel listing their favorite books with … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy, Lists, Tough Traveling | Tagged Barbara Hambly, Diana Wynne Jones, fantasy lists, Glen Cook, high priests in fantasy, margaret weis, Mark C. Perry, STEPHEN R. DONALDSON, Tough Traveling Thursday, tracy hickman | 9 Comments

SHATTERED SHIELDS edited by JENNIFER BROZEK and BRYAN THOMAS SCHMIDT

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Bookwraiths

My rating is 3 out of 5 stars. Shattered Shields edited by Brozek and Schmidt is an anthology focused on military fantasy, specifically heroic struggles and epic combat. Here seventeen short stories and novellas explore the vast expanse of military … Continue reading →

Posted in 3 Stars, Anthology, Fantasy, Short Stories | Tagged best military fantasy anthology, best military fantasy stories, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, David Farland, ELIZABETH MOON, Glen Cook, Jennifer Brozek, military fantasy, Paksenarrion, Runelords, Shattered Shields, The Black Company | 2 Comments

FUN DAY MONDAY, OR THE BOOKS THAT WILL HELP ME SURVIVE THE WEEK AHEAD (NOVEMBER 3, 2014)

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Bookwraiths

The work week begins. Usually, I slip on my business suit and head back into the office to save a few innocent people from wrongful incarceration, but today, I have foregone the formal attire to do paperwork. Something that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy, Funday Monday | Tagged David Farland, ELIZABETH MOON, Glen Cook, Grand Moff Tarkin, James Luceno, John R. Fultz, NICK KYME, Sarah A. Hoyt, Shattered Shields, Star Wars, Stars Wars Expanded Universe, Tarkin, The Great Betrayal, Warhammer, warhammer dwarves | 10 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELING — MONSTERS

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Bookwraiths

Posted in Fantasy, Lists, Tough Traveling | Tagged Andy Remic, Barbara Hambly, Chronicles of the Black Company, Dargonslayer, Dragonsbane, Glen Cook, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mother of Winter, Saladin Ahmed, Shadows Linger, Stephen King, The Black Company, the dark tower, The Hobbit, The Iron Wolves, Throne of the Crescent Moon, Tough Traveling, WOLVES OF THE Calla | 12 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELING — DESERT NOMADS

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Bookwraiths

Posted in Fantasy, Lists, Tough Traveling | Tagged A Fortress in Shadow, Aiel, C.S. Lewis, Calormen, Dread Empire, Glen Cook, Krasians, Peter V. Brett, robert jordan, The Chronicles of Narnia, THE DEMON CYCLE, The Desert Spear, The Eye of the World, The Horse and His Boy, THE WARDED MAN, The Wheel of Time | 7 Comments

THE LONGEST FANTASY SERIES

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Bookwraiths

Every one of you has done it: fallen in love with an epic, fantasy series that goes on and on forever. The ones that begin so grandly then morph into multi-volume nightmares that never seem to end. Even the authors … Continue reading →