Smorgasbord Fantasia

2014 has been turning out to be quite a stellar one in terms of my reading. I've never felt so good about my reading - I guess with my writing having now entered the second stages ( where the first draft is done and dusted, second and third rewrites are in progress and you can hear the editing axes chopping away in full glory ) Having set myself a target of close to 60 books to complete on Goodreads  - I think I'm very comfortably close to punching above my weight. Say wohooo. Alright coming back to the year of 2014 - Quite a few - in fact a handful - of good, gooder and grand fantasy books have released. Words of Radiance, The Emperor's Blades, Prince of Fools, Half a King, Breach Zone - forming just the first line of that leading pack and many more yet to come ( Some mind-bogglingly good titles like Smiler's Fair by Rebecca Levine  ) It's as good as it gets and heck, it keeps on getting only better. So here's my bid to direct you to some more. In my sw...

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...