Apologies for the scattered and sparse schedule of videos, but I'm looking forward to closing out this year with some good fabtasy works and momentum to lead into a more productive bookish 2024! Enjoy!
My December TBR «Brother Red» by Adrian Selby (Grimdark Fantasy, standalone «mid-quel» to «Snakewood» and «The Winter Road», loosely tied to the story of a powerful trading company akin to the Hanseatic League or the East India Company) «After Rome» by Morgan Llywelyn (Historical Fiction set to Post-Roman Britain) «The River of Stars» by GGK (Fantasy inspired by Song Dynasty China) «Bold Ascension» by Vaughn Roycroft (Fantasy inspired by the Goths of the Migration Period) My December MBR «Alv Erlingsson» by Tore Skeie (Historical Fiction about a 13th Century Norwegian Jarl turned Privateer and Rebel) «Judas Blossom» by Stephen Aryan (Fantasy inspired by the Mongol Conquest of Persia) For 2024 I plan to start with «Stonehenge» by Bernard Cornwell (about the Creation of Stonehenge during the Neolithic Period), «Imperium» by Robert Harris (about the Roman Politician Cicero), «Når Landet Mørknar» (approx.: «When the Land Darkens») by Tore Kvæven (set during the Norse Settlement of Greenland in the 13th Century, winner of the Norwegian Brage Prize for Best Norwegian Novel in 2018), «Egil Skallagrimsson» by Halvor Tjønn (about the (in-)famous 10th Century Icelandic Viking & Skald who became a Bloodsworn Enemy of the Norwegian Viking King Eirik Bloodaxe), «The Dragon Lord» by David Drake (Arthurian S&S), «The Last Light of the Sun» by Guy Gavriel Kay (Fantasy inspired by the Viking Great Heathen Army and King Alfred the Good) and the «Lyonesse» Trilogy by Jack Vance ((pre-)Arthurian Fantasy)!
