John Marco took a break from writing for a little while, but is back in the game in April with the next installment in The Bronze Knight series, The Forever Knight. Sadly, part of the reason for that break was because his editor sat on TFK without even reading it for 2 years. This kind of stuff g...
This is a great reissue by Bison Books.First published in 1935, The Circus of Dr. Lao is a marvel: or as John Marco so rightly puts it in his introduction, ‘an obscure classic’. (page xvii)Though Charles Finney published other novels and stories, this (his first) is perhaps his most famous, thoug...
This review is for the entire Tyrants and Kings series (The Jackal of Nar, The Grand Design and The Saints of the Sword). I stumbled upon these books when I was working at Borders about 15 years ago. Back then I wasn't as serious as I am now about the content of what I read, so I admit that I pi...
I finally finished it! All 660 pages (trade paperback) of small print.I feel an oddly hollow sense of accomplishment.First of all, I didn't find this book incredibly easy to sink into. It's interesting right off the bat, that's for sure, but I wasn't really committed to any of the characters for ...