Adrian Tchaikovsky writes DnD, turns everything you thought you knew on its head, and writes the perfect length book. Spiderlight is a very classic quest story at it’s heart, our band of misfits (the classic cleric, rogue, mage etc) are following a prophecy in which they will defeat the Dark Lord. Simple, classic, already a great story. Then we have a Spider turned into human form (and, yes, you will sympathise with him), and a journey through some of the darkest parts of the land, where deeper personalities are revealed, and darker storylines take place.
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Cage of Stars is an incredible journey across, and beneath, the surface of an expansive world. Hugely unique in voice and stunningly written. Who would’ve thought I could care so much about a robot?
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I have a confession. This is my first Olivie Blake book. And, I actually honestly really enjoyed it. Taking a sorority and telling it’s story through the eyes of both a student who has just been accepted into The House, and a professor who agrees to be the academic liaison meant that you saw both sides of the indoctrination. And how it can affect different people.
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