TOP 5
What I'm Reading - My top five recent reads
Time For Spring Reads - Some great books to kick back with after a day of enjoying the return to good weather.
01
Map's Edge
David Hair
Dashryn Cowl has run out of places to hide. The erstwhile sorcerer of the Imperial College fled the Bolgravian Empire when his high-flying family fell from grace, but the tyrannical empire is still hunting for him.
So when he gets his hands on a map showing a place outside the known lands rich in istariol, the mineral that fuels sorcery, he sees a way back to power. There's only one problem: it means masquerading as an Imperial Cartomancer (an instant death sentence) and finding some dupes to help him mine the istariol in secret, no questions asked.
But somehow, amid the dangers of the road (floods and avalanches, beasts, barbarians and monsters), a strange thing begins to happen: Dashryn starts to care about his ragtag followers and their strange odyssey into the ruins of an ancient forgotten civilization.
But his past won't let him be: the implacable Imperial Bloodhound Toran Zorne has caught his scent, and Zorne has never yet failed to bring his quarry to ground.
02
Unnatural Magic
C.M. Waggoner
03
The Once and Future Witches
Alix E. Harrow
04
Elevator Pitch
Linwood Barclay
05
Life
Keith Richards
Older recommendations
Call Of The Bone Ships
RJ Barker
In this fantasy world, life upon the ocean is everything
and everyone revolves around it. Condemned to the Black Ships,
and duty until death, Lucky Meas nevertheless has the ambition
to make plans of her own.
Burn
Patrick Ness
The Boy From The Woods
Harlan Coben
Warlord
Bernard Cornwell
The Evening and the Morning
Ken Follet
Fair Warning
Michael Connelly
The Trouble With Peace
Joe Abercrombie
The Red Stained Wings
Elizabeth Bear
Marilia The Warlord
Morgan Cole
The Bone Shard Daughter
Andrea Stewart
In The Kingdom of All Tomorrows
Stephen R. Lawhead
The Unspoken Name
AK Larkwood
Long Road To Mercy
David Baldacci
The Guardians
John Grisham
Torn
Rowenna Miller
Bright Steel
Miles Cameron
Mother of Demons
David Hair
An Anonymous Girl
Greer Hendricks
The Ruin of Kings
Jenn Lyons
Sword of Kings
Bernard Cornwell
A Little Hatred
Joe Abercrombie
Dark Forge
Miles Cameron
Hearts of Ice
David Hair
Cari Mora
Thomas Harris
The Stone in the Skull
Elizabeth Bear