The Bodhisattva

*opens window and begins to swap stories with Leodora and the little girl from the Night Garden passing around a bottle of the finest wine from the Arbor*

Another look at the week of ‘bookspot that was! Another week goes by and still no justice for your host, as no new design news to announce. Apparently I’m asking people to move worlds here and not everybody has the luxury of having both the Cosmic Cube and Infinity Gauntlet (don’t believe the silly Illuminati) in their closet so we must move in mortal time because I don’t loan those out having to battle titans, warlocks, and Nazi alike for them.

Luckily enough the heart and soul of our operation still persevere as the contributors of the site once again bring the thunder as the head becomes more and more dissillusioned.

-Exclusives:

Never just sitting on my ass, I snatched another exclusive. This is from Michael Jasper’s forthcoming A Gathering of Doorways and includes the prologue and first chapter. This will be released from Prime in October.

I was hoping to have a few announcements regarding more material but it’s just been a rather frustrating week…

-Reviews:

- First we’d like to welcome a new reviewer, Elizabeth, who among other things has the low-down the when Peanut Buster Parfait’s are on sale.  She kicks it off with a review of Guy Gavriel Kay’s Lions of Al-Rassan.

- Maria reviews one of those books - rather a chapbook - that piss me off that have titles too long to fit into thread title fields,  Psychological Methods To Sell Should Be Destroyed: Stories by Robert Freeman Wexler.

- Val continues with Brandon Sanderson, taking a look at The Well of Ascension.

“Sanderson may well be on his way to delivering one of the most influential epic fantasy trilogies of the decade.”

It’s an odd quote but perhaps true, as excluding Bakker nobody is really bringing it with the trilogy format in epic fantasy that I’d consider topshelf overall.

He also continues his hot and cold relatioship with L.E. Modesitt reviewing his Natural Ordermage

- John Markley reviews Storm of Vengeance by John Beachem.

“A fantasy debut that shows flashes of promise, but disappoints overall”

- Trinu sails Black Ships with Jo Graham.

“Jo Graham’s debut offers a fresh perspective on a famous classic of Western literature. Supported thorough historical and archaeological research, “Black Ships” re-interprets “The Aeneid”, from a female point of view, as a beautiful and poignant story of loss, courage and compassion”

- Amber reviews The Inferior by Peadar O Guilin.

“I can think of two major influences that could have inspired this novel and while they were both well done, I feel that Peadar O Guilan took it a step further and made the reader both uncomfortable and thoughtful at the same time. This book is designed for a younger audience and while there are some instances of violence and some rather gruesome imagery, I find that it still fits for both a younger and older audience.”

-Contests:

Nothing new to announce (but more coming ), I’m just kind of in limbo here (where I ended up being after being throw under the proverbial ‘bus’) a bit and I hope we are out of it this week so we can even pretend we have a schedule.  That said, today is the last day to get in on are contests for signed copies of Erikson’s Toll the Hounds and 10 copies of Ian Cameron Esslemont’s Return of the Crimson Guard.  Get going!

-P.S.:

Hopefully some exciting stuff next week or I’m going to have get payback like Porter.

*Watches Leodora finish the bottle and closes window*