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"You Want Me to Blow Up the Afterlife?" Dave Reviews City of Blades

Posted on 2016-11-03 at 05:34 by Dave


City of Blades (The Divine Cities, Book 2)
by Robert Jackson Bennett, Narrated by Alma Cuervo
Length: 20 hours, 27 minutes

The gods have been destroyed. This isn't myth or ancient history -- it happened less than a lifetime ago. They were oppressive and made slaves of much of humanity until the eventual uprising came. But if the gods are all dead, then what happened to the afterlives they created, and those left in them?

But really, I'm only scratching the surface. Straight up: City of Blades is the best

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Posted in reviews | Tagged alma cuervo, divine cities, reviews, robert jackson bennett

Release Week: Station Eleven, City of Stairs, Hieroglyph, Monstrous Affections, and Gregory Maguire's Egg and Spoon

Posted on 2014-09-16 at 13:31 by Sam

SEPTEMBER 3-9, 2014: A highly-praised post-apocalyptic fiction, a secondary-world fantasy, an optimistic hard sf anthology, a young adult fantasy anthology, and an "all ages" fantasy lead a crowded week which also includes Daryl Gregory's "dark, degenerate, and sublime" We Are All Completely Fine, Karen Miller's The Falcon Throne, Angus Watson's Age of Iron, Siobhan Adcock's ghost story The Barter, Paula Guran's anthology Zombies: More Recent Dead, Benedict Cumberbatch reading William Golding's The Spire, a

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged alma cuervo, city of stairs, daryl gregory, egg and spoon, emily st john mandel, gavin grant, gregory maguire, hieroglyph, kathryn cramer, kelly link, kirsten potter, michael page, monstrous affections, neal stephenson, robert jackson bennett, siobhan adcock, station eleven, the barter