Today in Fantasy: July 16, 2009

FBNR News:

I'm 200 pages into Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. Its good reading so far, though like others have said, the plot is just average. What makes this stand out are the characters and the writing. It's fun just to see how Joe will describe the next scene. I think the humor is spot-on as well. Though the phelgm references could stand to be reduced...

Reviews:

-Fyrefly's Book Blog: Assassin’s Apprentice by S. R. Vaught and J. B. Redmond (YA Fantasy, book 1 in a series)

-Mad Hatter's Bookshelf: The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

-The Wertzone: Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett

-Stella Matutina: Kushiel's Scion by Jacqueline Carey

-Graeme's Fantasy Book Review: Twelve by Jasper Kent

-Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews: The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia

-A Dribble of Ink: Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi

-Fantasy Book Critic: The Age of Ra by James Lovegrove

Authors/News:

-Joshua Palmatier announces that all 3 of his Throne books are now available on the Kindle.

-Browsing the new releases list at Fictionwise, I noticed that Wizards of the Coast released ebook version of most (all?) of Salvatore's Dark Elf Series, and the first 2 in the Lost Chronicles series by Weiss & Hickman. So Drizzt fans now how ebook options. Oh, and at Fictionwise, Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold ebook will be 24.95, while the Kindle edition will be 9.99. Yet another example of why the ebook market is so screwed up.