Recent content by Jay Tomio

Just starting the first book in a new series coimng out next year, A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham, which got sterling comments from GRRM.

As I'm making my way through Tobias Buckell's forthcoming Crystal Rain, I just received another book that on my 2006 most wanted list, Daniel Abraham's A Shadow in Summer, the first book in The Long Price Quartet - really been looking forward to this seies. GRRM had great thing to say about it...

Crytsal Rain by Tobias Buckell and Summer Isle by Ian R. Macleod ------------ The Bodhisattva Fantasybookspot.com

A couple of new series by new author's I have already read that think are excellent are Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora - which was just fascinating and comes out mid-2006, and Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon (which is is called Tremeraire in the U.K.) which comes out in January, and...

Yes. Public gets it in January - just around the corner. :) ------------ The Bodhisattva Fantasybookspot.com

Finisihed the concluding chapter of R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series, The Thousandfold Thought last night - powefrul concluson, readers won't be disappointed come January. Back to reading Jeffrey Ford's Cosmology of the Wider World. ----------------------------------- The Bodhisattva...

I finished the the final installment, the forthcoming (in january) The Thousandfold Thought last night - powerful conclusion to one of the better epic fantasy sequences in a while. Full review within a week. ------------ The Bodhisattva Fantasybookspot.com

Putting other books down as I just got The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker.

I liked it, but it's getting a lot of criticism by fans that I think have to much Fitz man- love. It sets a methodical pace, and ifindt he social/class system to be interesting, and most of all I just liked the opportunity to read something new by Hobb and I think it was the right time to move...

As mentioned above - I put Bakker in the category of epic fantasy's elite writers with Erikson and Martin, and his 'Prince of Nothing' possibly having the chance of being the best epic fantasy series completed since 1979. I reviewed the first book, The Darkness that Comes Before here...

Recenty finished Umberto Eco's Mysterious Flame Queen of Loana and currently reading Jeffrey Ford's Cosmology the Wider World and Paul Auster's Leviathan. Thus far this month fiinished and was underwhelmed by Tim Lebbon's forthcoming (January) Dusk, the first part of a planned duology; read...