“Stone and Sea.” Can there be any more perilous a journey than that of Ur-Lord Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever and White Gold wielder Giantfriend? Could his title get any longer? Linden Avery now moves slowly to the fore as the questers sail the seas hounded by a Raver that assails them at the worst possible times. [...]
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Book Review: Thomas Covenant: The One Tree – Stephen Donaldson
Posted: 12th July 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsTags: Book Review, Fantasy Novel, Mathew E C Bridle, stephen donaldson, the one tree
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Book Review: Thomas Covenant – The Wounded Land
Posted: 4th July 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsHaving enjoyed the first Chronicles of Thomas Covenant so much I could not resist diving straight into the second. Within a few pages you soon discover that this chronicles has been written as single story instead of three connected ones. How so? Well, this book does not come to a satisfying conclusion as all three [...]
Zombies vs. Nazis – A lost history of the walking dead
Posted: 29th June 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Book Review, Mathew's BlogTags: fantasy, nazis, saga, scott kenemore, undead, voodoo, war, zombies
by Scott Kenemore with Illustrations by Adam Wallenta I must confess that when I was first asked to review this book I was not that keen as it is not something that I would readily pick up. I had no idea what to expect so when the email arrived (I had a PDF version) I opened [...]
Posted: 27th May 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's Blogs
Tags: Book Review, ebook, fanatsy, first novel, michael fraser
It took my quite some time to get into this book, but I am glad that I kept going. The story begins with a young boy rescued by a wraith which takes him and trains to be a Windchaser: a daemon hunter. Thus Darkmalian is formed. We are then jumped forward to the present day [...]
The Royal Garden
Posted: 20th May 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Homework, Mathew's BlogTags: fantasy, homework
My submission for the May 2011 meeting. The homework was to describe a walk somewhere to an imaginary friend. Passing through the glittering marble white gates beneath hanging ivy whose veins shine with light into the gardens where the tortoiseshell pathway ends and the soft mossy grasses begin. I find myself met with the impossible site of the [...]
Book Review – The Power That Preserves – Stephen Donaldson
Posted: 10th May 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Mathew's BlogTags: Book Review, fantasy, Fantasy Novel
The Power that Preserves is the third part of the Thomas Covenant series and the end of the first trilogy. Simply put: a great book. The Unbeliever comes of age at last and accepts that he has a purpose in life other than to survive. He confesses his love for the Land into the face [...]
Review – Stephen Donaldson – The Illearth War
Posted: 6th May 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsSo, Thomas Covenant has returned to his own world only to become even more hated just for being alive and having an illness that will eventually kill him if the residents don’t first. With his mind reeling at the intrusion of his ‘dream’ Covenant begins to unravel. Not surprising. He spends three weeks battling with [...]
Book Review – Lord Foul’s Bane – Stephen Donaldson
Posted: 25th April 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Book Review, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsWhen Vamplit Publishing offered to take on my book they likened my style to Stephen Donaldson Author of the Thomas Covenant Chronicles and others. Now I have never heard of Stephen Donaldson so that meant little to me. I have now however acquainted myself with the author’s work and stand perplexed. Does my publisher really [...]
The Silver Cage – Mik Wilkens
Posted: 12th April 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Book Review, Mathew's BlogTags: Book Review, ebooks, Fantasy Novel, Horsham Writers, shapeshifters, werewolves
Imagine if you would two worlds joined together by Springs of Power. The Power in question allows magic to be shaped into spells and werewolves to take on the true form of the wolf. Our world, the Earth, has limited magic due to the lack of Springs. But this does not stop our business consultant, [...]