Previous SFF Author: Melissa Marr
Alex Marshall is a pseudonym of author Jesse Bullington. He spent the bulk of his formative years in rural Pennsylvania, the Netherlands, and Tallahassee, Florida. He is a folklore enthusiast who holds a bachelor’s degree in History and English Literature from Florida State University. He currently resides in Colorado. Learn more at Jesse Bullington’s website.
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A Crown for Cold Silver by Alex Marshall (pseudonym of Jesse Bullington)
A Crown for Cold Silver is a big, brassy, gut-buster of a fantasy, weighing in at over 650 pages. Alex Marshall has crafted a multi-layered tale (or song, if you prefer the parlance of The Star) of bloody vengeance, personal glory, and the unimaginable consequences of a single careless wish. Clear your calendar, stock up on snacks, and silence the phone — this is a serious investment of time,
Jana Nyman´s rating: 4 | Alex Marshall | SFF Reviews | 7 comments |
A Blade of Black Steel by Alex Marshall
Alex Marshall‘s A Blade of Black Steel (2016), the sequel to A Crown for Cold Silver, continues turning the sword-and-sorcery genre on its head while displaying Marshall’s obvious love of both swords and sorcery. Character development is the key this time around, much to the enrichment of the novel itself and the series as a whole. But don’t get too complacent — the entire world may be coming to an end,
Jana Nyman´s rating: 4 | Alex Marshall | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
A War in Crimson Embers by Alex Marshall
Fair warning: if you haven’t read the previous two novels in Alex Marshall’s CRIMSON EMPIRE trilogy, A Crown for Cold Silver and A Blade of Black Steel, you aren’t going to have any understanding for what’s happening in A War in Crimson Embers (2017). It’s vitally important that these books are read in order!
At the close of A Blade of Black Steel,
Jana Nyman´s rating: 4.5 | Alex Marshall | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Previous SFF Author: Melissa Marr
Wow, 20 dollars? That seems a lot for a 100-or-so-page book, but most of my novellas have come via ARCs…
I might say "formulaic" actually.
Your review made me curious, so I looked this book up. Sure enough: Tor. Tor seems to specialize in these…
It's a tightrope act for sure.
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