Posts Tagged ‘Darrell K. Sweet’

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    Book Review – The Shadow Rising
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: October 1993 As I mentioned in my review of The Dragon Reborn, the first three books in the Wheel of Time series are bit different in style and scope than the books that follow. At almost four hundred thousand words The Shadow Rising is the first of three...
    by Rob at March 12th, 2009 at 02:03 pm
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    Book Review – The Dragon Reborn
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: October 1991 Being the third book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. Jordan is still writing at a fast pace at this stage, The Dragon Reborn is published only eleven months after The Great Hunt. I have always felt that the first three are somewhat different...
    by Rob at February 28th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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    Book Review – Fall of Angels
    Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr. Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: July 1997 One of the nice things about Modesitt’s long running Recluce series, there are currently 15 books (and there may be a 16th in 2010) is that once you are familiar with the time line you can more or less reread the books in any order you...
    by Rob at February 27th, 2009 at 02:02 pm
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    Book Review – The Great Hunt
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: November 1990 Published only ten months after The Eye of the World this book is the second entry in Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. I always found it hard to pick a favourite but if I had to, it would probably be The Great Hunt. Jordan lets go of the Lord of the...
    by Rob at January 11th, 2009 at 04:01 am
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    Book Review – The Eye of the World
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardback Publication Date: 1990 The Eye of the World is the first book in Jordan’s hugely successful Wheel of Time series. I don’t know of any other book that has gets so many “this book got me into fantasy” comments as this one. This isn’t true for me. I had already...
    by Rob at December 24th, 2008 at 01:12 pm
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    Book Review – Knife of Dreams
    Author: Robert Jordan Publisher: Tor Publishing Date: October 2005 Binding: Hardcover Cover Artist: Darrell K.  Sweet The eleventh book in Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, a series much criticized for unnecessarily dragging the story out. Especially after the last book Crossroads of Twilight, where all progress in the plot seems to grind to a halt. Jordan had already...
    by Rob at November 3rd, 2008 at 06:11 am
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    Book Review – Crossroads of Twilight
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: January 2003 The tenth book in Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. By this point, even when Jordan stated book twelve would be the final one, many readers have given up on the seemingly never ending series. That didn’t prevent Crossroads of Twilight from topping...
    by Rob at September 26th, 2008 at 02:09 pm
  • Book Review – Mage-Guard of Hamor
    Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr. Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2008 Since Modesitt writes most of these in pairs I decided to dive straight into the next Recluce novel. The 15th in the overall series and a direct sequel to Natural Ordermage. Like Natural Ordermage Modesitt does not radically change his approach to the series...
    by Rob at August 12th, 2008 at 10:08 am
  • Book Review – Natural Ordermage
    Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr. Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 2008 Natural Ordermage is the 14th novel in Modesitt’s best know series, the Recluce Saga. The Recluce Saga is somewhat unusual because it published well out of chronological order, with the first novel The Magic of Recluce being the second to...
    by Rob at August 5th, 2008 at 09:08 am
  • Book Review – Winter’s Heart
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2000 The ninth book in the Wheel of Time series. Where The Path of Daggers was a disappointment to many readers and definitely not my favourite, thing look a little better in Winter’s Heart. I liked this book a lot. It is a bit faster paced and for a miracle...
    by Rob at June 28th, 2008 at 08:06 am
  • Book Review – The Path of Daggers
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Orbit Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 1999 The eight book in the Wheel of Time series. Published in 1998, this book is often mentioned as one of the least favourite among the Wheel of Time fans. By this point both progression in the story and Jordan’s productivity have dropped considerably....
    by Rob at May 31st, 2008 at 07:05 am
  • Book Review – A Crown of Swords
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 1997 I am enjoying my reread of the later Wheel of Time books, more than I should probably. Because the first five books already had a review on fantasybookspot, I started in the middle of the series. At this point I am considering rereading those as well....
    by Rob at May 10th, 2008 at 06:05 am
  • Book Review – Lord of Chaos
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date:1995 Lord of Chaos is the sixth book in Robert Jordan’s successful Wheel of Time series. I hesitated before taking on this review. As you can see the first five books have been reviewed by TK42ONE and he has a decidedly different view on this series....
    by Rob at April 13th, 2008 at 05:04 am
  • Book Review – Sons of the Oak
    Author: David Farland Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Mass Market Paperback Publication Date: 2007 Sons of the Oak is the fifth novel in the Runelords series. It is set in a world where attributes such as brawn, wit, stamina or metabolism can be transferred from one person to another using the ancient runelore and forcibles of rare blood metal....
    by Rob at October 24th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
  • Book Review – New Spring: the Novel
    Author: Robert Jordan Cover Artist: Darrell K. Sweet Publisher: Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2004 On September 16th, 2007, Robert Jordan, one of the giants of epic fantasy, left us. The biographies in the back of his books said that he intended to write until they nailed shut his coffin, and from what I can tell from his blog that is exactly what he did. Despite...
    by Rob at September 25th, 2007 at 10:09 am