Smorgasbord Fantasia

 If Terry Pratchett decided to write a tale about a bunch of oldies going up in arms against ALL the bloodthirsty monsters you have ever read about, to save one girl and in that process, maybe the world too (A trivial side- benefit of course) all the while tripping on the sounds of Rock for Ages, then it would have sort of ...become Kings of the Wyld . I know it totally doesn't do justice to the genius of Nicholas Eames - But hey, I so totally loved this book. Celebrating rock and epic fantasy in a totally inscrutable mash-up that nevertheless turns out to be a runaway platinum jubilee record hit, Nicholas Eames gives us the opening act of The Band - in Kings of the Wyld. This is a rollicking tale of backslapping bromance borne out of the sort of wild road-trip undertaken by a bunch of ageing rockstars, dragging themselves out of retirement for that one last-ditch all-out  effort to revive the glory of old and to experience the unbeatable high of that unadulterated a...

So the first WoW meme on my blog [ Picking up on the themes originally started at Breaking The Spine blog, we feature the second installment of The Band, the sequel to the wildly popular debut that hit the charts on the top ten world over last year, Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames. Described often as George RR Martin meets Terry Pratchet - I am currently half way through book one and I cannot put into words, the indescribably warm and fuzzy feeling I get as I read the same. It's absolutely nuts, cracks me up every few pages and is a quest of old men, banding together for that one last adventure before kicking the bucket. It's just such a riot of a read that I cannot stop blubbering. But hark back to the book on hand, we present Bloody Rose, Band# 2 by Nicholas Eames . Live fast, die young. Tam Hashford has always dreamed of living through glory days of her own. With a renowned mercenary for a mother and an illustrious bard for a father, battles and adventure see...