Smorgasbord Fantasia

Hi! Back after a hiatus - been trying to finish off Night of Knives, a precursor to the Entire Malazan Series ( You see, I never seem to get enough of this super awesome delightful series that I consider the Best Adult EPIC series out there in modern fantasy !) and I should do that today. Apart from this, I been slowly upping the ante on the research on my querying, ideating on how best to grab the attention for those cruel literary agents :D, in general wasting my time instead of plodding (plotting!) away on the story. But next review up soon - Ian C Esselmont's take on the Malazan Series.

Okay this is one of those lazy posts - where I just let you guys know whats coming next!! Here's the list: 1) Bone Shaker by Cherie Priest  - a zombie novel about a town destroyed by a mean machine and has led to leakage of a poisonous gas that converts the alive into "undead" - which gets sealed up (duh!) and a boy's mission to prove his dad innocent, by going back into this ghost town filled with the undead ( called Rotters!) Trust me, its been heavy going for me. with the work-man like prose and dreary descriptions of action-scenes that almost make you feel that nothings happening with the plot. Will let you know when ( and IF!) I finish. 2) Memories of Ice - Part 3 Malazan Empire of the Fallen series - the awesome awesome series that put the word "epic" back into epic fantasy. Hugely sprawling and immensely huge cast of gods, humans, non-gods, and a countless number of super cool "races" that abound the world. I have to go back and tr...