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The Armored Saint
« on: February 22, 2018, 09:51:13 PM »
A new fantasy book by Myke Cole. He's previously done more contemporary urban fantasy style stuff such as the US having a magic corp in the military. All good stuff. He was also one of the tech geeks in the US version of Hunted.

This new one is beslubbering excellent. You'll see the WFB/40K tones throughout. Never suffer a wizard to live and all that. There's a reason behind the strictures. There's a few minor steampunk aspects in there but it gives us war machines so it's all good.

Not a long book by any means (200 pages) so a quick read and the second one is out in a bit.
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Re: The Armored Saint
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2018, 12:34:30 PM »
I'd just put it on my list. It's good, eh? Good to know! Got a few in line before it, but it definitely looks cool.

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Re: The Armored Saint
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2018, 01:43:27 PM »
I'm currently on a Joe Abercrombie kick so Saint was a change to slightly less grimdark.
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Re: The Armored Saint
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2018, 02:51:35 PM »
I'm currently on a Joe Abercrombie kick so Saint was a change to slightly less grimdark.

Slightly less dark than Abercrombie is still pretty damned dark.

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Re: The Armored Saint
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2018, 02:59:29 PM »
It's not the happiest of places to live.
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Re: The Armored Saint
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2018, 03:36:35 PM »
It's not the happiest of places to live.

I just finished the First Law Trilogy, it was great. What else would you recommend?
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Re: The Armored Saint
« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2018, 03:44:09 PM »
The Half a King series is decent. More YA than First Law but not by much.
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