We’ve found so many reviews this week you won’t know where to begin. From Warriors to Furies to Empires you can check out reviews of some of fantasy’s hottest authors and recent works here.
Last on our list this week is an interview at The Dragon Page with Charlaine Harris, and I have to say I was disappointed. Not in the interview, the interview is in fact great, but I was really hoping to find a mastermind behind the wild success of Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels. Rather than sounding like the Sookie novels were planned, well organized and well thought out prior to being written, Harris comes off as aloof, making it sound like all the novels in the series were just written on a whim, and that the success really has nothing to do with any semblance of a structured plan. To me, this lends even more credibility to the notion that the whole vampire romance/urban fantasy genre is a fluke, a fad that will pass as quickly as pogo balls and hot pink Hammer pants. The guys at The Dragon Page seem to hint that they feel the same way, but they dance around it a bit, as is only natural when you’re interviewing one of the genre’s heavyweights. They even go so far as to mention an impending collapse, stating that Harris, Jim Butcher and Laurell K. Hamilton would be the only authors in the genre able to survive such an implosion. I’ve been covering the Amazon top 5 fantasy bestsellers for over a year now, and I won’t say I’d welcome such an implosion, but it would freshen up the list a bit. Just sayin’.
- Review: Warriors edited by George R.R. Martin @ BC Books
- Review: Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher @ Hub Pages
- Review: First Lord’s Fury by Jim Butcher @ Book Geeks
- Review: The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett @ Walker of Worlds
- Review: Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky @ Grasping for the Wind
- Review: Stealing Fire by Jo Graham @ Fantasy Book Critic
- Review: Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris @ The LA Times
- Interview: Charlaine Harris speaks @ The Dragon Page
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