#Traitor of Redwinter

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Twitter is having a Completely Normal One. Again.

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Release Roundup - 10.24.23

it's the last tuesday before halloween, so check out these two new and fittingly eerie and engrossing titles from Tor!

👇title info below👇

Tor Books

Traitor of Redwinter by Ed McDonald

Malarkoi by Alex Pheby

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Seven Books In Seven Days: Traitor of Redwinter by Ed Mcdonald

tagged by e-b-reads to post the cover of a book you love and tag someone else to do the same every day for a week!

I haven't actually read this one yet, since it doesn't come out until later this year. But I was so struck by this cover when I saw the reveal on tordotcom that I had to immediately check out book 1 from the library. highly effective cover action, very cool art. (as per google the artist is Galen Dara. You can see the rest of her portfolio here)

tagging @altschmerzes! (as always, no obligation to participate if you don’t feel inclined!)

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A Gentleman and a Scholar's Short List of Books I Hope To Read Before Year's End

Hullo, hi, Filip here. I take this valuable reading time to notify you that I have a few too many books I’d like to read before the year comes to an end, and I’m, frankly, drowning under the sheer weight of paper stock. Prepare yourselves! Starling House by Alix E. Harrow The new Harrow novel is ace, and I’ll probably burn through it over the rest of the night because I am a maniac who cannot…

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Interview with Author Ed McDonald

Interview with Author Ed McDonald Thanks to @Torbooks for the assist here. #TraitorofRedwinter #ChroniclesofRedwinter #Fantasy #Books #Authors

Life is as always very busy, and what’s the best thing to do when you’re busy? Add in something new to work on. With that in mind, I decided to change things up from my normal routine and conduct an interview with an author whose work I admire. This will be the first interview I’ve done on my blog, and I’m happy with how it turned out. For the first interview, I reached out to author Ed McDonald…

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ARC Review - Traitor of Redwinter

Hello, everyone! Today I’m reviewing Traitor of Redwinter by Ed McDonald, which is out in stores tomorrow, October 24, 2023. This is the sequel to one of my favorites from last year, Daughter of Redwinter, and I was very excited to return to this world. Continue reading Untitled

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Traitor of Redwinter | Book 2 of The Redwinter Chronicles | ARC Review

Thank you to Tor Publishing Group and Netgalley for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. This does not change my opinion in anyway. Book: Traitor of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles 2) by Ed McDonald Release Date: October 24th 2023Tags: Fantasy | Adult Fantasy | Death Magic Trigger/Content Warnings: Death | Torture | Violence | Betrayal Other books in this series I reviewed…

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Hi do you by chance have any sapphic fantasy recs? preferably adult fantasy but YA is fine too

sure! tho this could will get quite long... no links, sorry!, bc it was kicking up a fuss with those for some reason

+ = ya

pennyblade by j.l. worrad

lady hotspur by tessa gratton

sofi and the bone song by adrienne tooley (+)

she who became the sun by shelley parker chan

the scapegracers by h.a. clarke (+)

the third daughter by adrienne tooley (+)

the daughters of izdihar by hadeer elsbai

the malevolent seven by sebastien de castell

blackheart knights by laure eve

the warden by daniel m. ford

the unbroken by c.l. clark

dark earth by rebecca stott

witch king by martha wells

scorpica by g.r. macallister

the mirror empire by kameron hurley

now she is witch by kirsty logan

silverglass by j.f. rivkin

the woman who loved the moon and other stories by elizabeth a. lynn

...(this answer is how i discover there's a character limit per block so. doing this in chunks.)

fire logic by laurie j. marks

a restless truth by freya marske

when angels left the old country by sacha lamb (+)

the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinson

an archive of brightness by kelsey socha

the bladed faith by david dalglish

the winged histories by sofia samatar

dragonoak by sam farren

the forever sea by joshua phillip johnson

into the broken lands by tanya huff

the jasmine throne by tasha suri

daughter of redwinter by ed mcdonald

the last magician by lisa maxwell (+)

the fire opal mechanism by fran wilde

...

the black coast by mike brooks

high times in the low parliament by kelly robson

foundryside by robert jackson bennett

the enterprise of death by jesse bullington

mamo by sas milledge (+)

from dust, a flame by rebecca podos (+)

uncommon charm by emily bergslien & kat weaver

wild and wicked things by francesca may

the unspoken name by a.k. larkwood

brother red by adrian selby

the final strife by saara el-arifi

way of the argosi by sebastien de castell (+)

the bone shard daughter by andrea stewart

ghost wood song by erica waters (+)

into the crooked place by alexandra christo (+)

ashes of the sun by django wexler

the midnight girls by alicia jasinska (+)

the midnight lie by marie rutkoski (+)

the never tilting world by rin chupeco (+)

water horse by melissa scott

...

a master of djinn by p. djeli clark

the good luck girls by charlotte nicole davis (+)

among thieves by m.j. kuhn

black water sister by zen cho

the velocity of revolution by marshall ryan maresca

sweet & bitter magic by adrienne tooley (+)

the dark tide by alicia jasinska (+)

the library of the unwritten by a.j. hackwith

a dark and hollow star by ashley shuttleworth (+)

the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo

the councillor by e.j. beaton

these feathered flames by alexandra overy (+)

the factory witches of lowell by c.s. malerich

fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard

...

city of lies by sam hawke

bestiary by k-ming chang

the raven and the reindeer by t. kingfisher

the winter duke by claire eliza bartlett (+)

master of poisons by andrea hairston

the empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo

night flowers shirking from the light of the sun by li xing

down comes the night by allison saft (+)

wench by maxine kaplan (+)

girls made of snow and glass by melissa bashardoust (+)

girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan (+)

the impossible contract by k.a. doore

burning roses by s.l. huang

the house of shattered wings by aliette de bodard

not for use in navigation by iona datt sharma

weak heart by ban gilmartin

girl, serpent, thorn by melissa bashardoust (+)

the devil's blade by mark alder

...

we set the dark on fire by tehlor kay mejia (+)

the true queen by zen cho

moontangled by stephanie burgis

a portable shelter by kirsty logan

sing the four quarters by tanya huff

all the bad apples by moira fowley doyle (+)

the drowning eyes by emily foster

the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon

miranda in milan by katharine duckett

the afterward by e.k. johnston (+)

thorn by anna burke

penhallow amid passing things by iona datt sharma

in the vanishers' palace by aliette de bodard

summer of salt by katrina leno (+)

the gracekeepers by kirsty logan

out of the blue by sophie cameron (+)

black wolves by kate elliott

the circle by sara b. elfgren & mats strandberg (+)

unspoken by sarah rees brennan (+)

thistlefoot by gennarose nethercott

passing strange by ellen klages

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december 2024 reading wrap-up

this month, i read 18 books.

of those, 6 were adult fiction, 2 were young adult fiction, 6 were comics or manga, and 4 were children's fiction.

i read 1 book from the library this month.

the first book i read in december was the case of the peculiar pink fan by nancy springer and the last was the complete elfquest volume 4 by richard and wendy pini.

my top five books of the month were:

the tainted cup by robert jackson bennett

traitor of redwinter by ed mcdonald

a river enchanted by rebecca ross

elantris by brandon sanderson

fullmetal alcehmist volume 18 by arakawa hiromu

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2024 reading list!

As usual my reading hasn't been consistent at all throughout the year, but I did read 92 books which is still pretty good. I also branched out with genres a little bit and got into reading horror this year. There's a lot more I could say about these but for now, here's the list!

Vigilance - Robert Jackson Bennett

The Empress of Salt and Fortune [The Singing Hills Cycle: 1] - Nghi Vo

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O’Farrell

Grey Sister [The Book of the Ancestor: 2] - Mark Lawrence

The Atlas Complex [The Atlas Series: 3] - Olivie Blake

Blood of the Chosen [Burningblade & Silvereye: 2] - Django Wexler

American Elsewhere - Robert Jackson Bennett 

Dazzling - Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ

So Let Them Burn [Divine Traitors: 1] - Kamilah Cole

The Bone Shard War [The Drowning Empire: 3] - Andrea Stewart 

Holy Sister [The Book of the Ancestor: 3] - Mark Lawrence 

Legendborn [The Legendborn Cycle: 1] - Tracy Deonn

In the Shadow of Lightning [The Glass Immortals: 1] - Brian McClellan 

Moon of the Crusted Snow [Moon of the Crusted Snow: 1] - Waubgeshig Rice

The Company Man - Robert Jackson Bennett

The Rithmatist [The Rithmatist: 1] - Brandon Sanderson

Three Parts Dead [The Craft Sequence: 1] - Max Gladstone

My Heart Is a Chainsaw [The Indian Lake Trilogy: 1] - Stephen Graham Jones 

The Lies of the Ajungo [The Forever Desert: 1] - Moses Ose Utomi

Galatea - Madeline Miller

The Marrow Thieves [The Marrow Thieves: 1] - Cherie Dimaline

The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez

The Tainted Cup [Shadow of the Leviathan: 1] - Robert Jackson Bennett

Rhythm of War [The Stormlight Archive: 4] - Brandon Sanderson 

Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

Bad Cree - Jessica Johns 

Hell Followed With Us - Andrew Joseph White 

Bloodmarked [The Legendborn Cycle: 2] - Tracy Deonn

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy - Nathan Thrall

Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange

Don’t Fear the Reaper [The Indian Lake Trilogy: 2] - Stephen Graham Jones 

Edgedancer [The Stormlight Archive: 2.5] - Brandon Sanderson

The Lies of Locke Lamora [Gentleman Bastard: 1] - Scott Lynch

Moon of the Turning Leaves [Moon of the Crusted Snow: 2] - Waubgeshig Rice

Mistborn: The Final Empire [The Mistborn Saga: 1] - Brandon Sanderson

Chlorine - Jade Song 

The Sunlit Man - Brandon Sanderson

The Truth of the Aleke [The Forever Desert: 2] - Moses Ose Utomi

The Stone Sky [The Broken Earth: 3] - N. K. Jemisin 

The Shadow of the Gods [The Bloodsworn: 1] - John Gwynne

The Girl and the Stars [The Book of the Ice: 1] - Mark Lawrence

The Angel of Indian Lake [The Indian Lake Trilogy: 3] - Stephen Graham Jones 

The Pomegranate Gate [The Mirror Realm Cycle: 1] - Ariel Kaplan

The Well of Ascension [The Mistborn Saga: 2] - Brandon Sanderson

The Book That Broke the World [The Library Trilogy: 2] - Mark Lawrence

House of Open Wounds [The Tyrant Philosophers: 2] - Adrian Tchaikovsky 

Shanghai Immortal [Shanghai Immortal: 1] - A. Y. Chao

The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo 

Limited Wish [Impossible Times: 2] - Mark Lawrence

Red Seas Under Red Skies [Gentleman Bastard: 2] - Scott Lynch

The Black God’s Drums - P. Djèlí Clark

Indian Burial Ground - Nick Medina

Daughter of Redwinter [The Redwinter Chronicles: 1] - Ed McDonald 

Dawnshard [The Stormlight Archive: 3.5] - Brandon Sanderson 

Dispel Illusion [Impossible Times: 3] - Mark Lawrence

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror - Jordan Peele, John Joseph Adams; N. K. Jemisin, Rebecca Roanhorse, Cadwell Turnbull, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Violet Allen, Erin E. Adams, Tananarive Due, Justin C. Key, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Nnedi Okorafor, L. D. Lewis, Nalo Hopkinson, Maurice Broaddus, Rion Amilcar Scott, Nicole D. Sconiers, Chesya Burke, Terence Taylor, P. Djèlí Clark, Tochi Onyebuchi 

Five Broken Blades [The Broken Blades Trilogy: 1] - Mai Corland

The Vanished Birds - Simon Jimenez

The Girl and the Mountain [The Book of the Ice: 2] - Mark Lawrence

The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf 

The Near Witch - V. E. Schwab

The Hero of Ages [The Mistborn Saga: 3] - Brandon Sanderson

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow - Zoulfa Katouh 

The Silverblood Promise [The Last Legacy: 1] - James Logan

The Salt Grows Heavy - Cassandra Khaw

The Sword of Kaigen - M. L. Wang

Real Americans - Rachel Khong

When Among Crows - Veronica Roth

These Burning Stars [The Kindom Trilogy: 1] - Bethany Jacobs 

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water - Zen Cho

Severance - Ling Ma

Escape Velocity - Victor Manibo

Godly Heathens [The Ouroboros: 1] - H. E. Edgmon

The Wolf of Oren-Yaro [Chronicles of the Bitch Queen: 1] - K. S. Villoso 

Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo

Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher

Ocean’s Godori [Ocean’s Godori: 1] - Elaine U. Cho

Mirrored Heavens [Between Earth and Sky: 3] - Rebecca Roanhorse 

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

The Alloy of Law [The Mistborn Saga: 4] [Wax & Wayne: 1] - Brandon Sanderson

Merciless Saviors [The Ouroboros: 2] - H. E. Edgmon

The Sympathizer [The Sympathizer: 1] - Viet Thanh Nguyen

Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 

Bury Your Gays - Chuck Tingle 

Hearts That Cut [Threads That Bind: 2] - Kika Hatzopoulou

The Stardust Grail - Yume Kitasei

The Book Censor’s Library - Bothayna Al-Essa; translated by Ranya Abdelrahman, Sawad Hussain

Wicked Problems [The Craft Wars: 2] - Max Gladstone

Wrath of the Triple Goddess [Percy Jackson and the Olympians: 7] [The Senior Year Adventures: 2] - Rick Riordan 

Vilest Things [Flesh & False Gods: 2] - Chloe Gong

Bonesmith [House of the Dead Duology: 1] - Nicki Pau Preto

What Moves the Dead [Sworn Soldier: 1] - T. Kingfisher

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Check out my review of  The Traitor of Redwinter by Ed McDonald 

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Absolutely gorgeous shout-out to THE BLUE BEAUTIFUL WORLD, but also how delightful to see it accompanied by so many other Gollancz books too!

Dates for your diaries:

SHIGIDI AND THE BRASS HEAD OF OBALUFON, Wole Talabi - 8th August

SIR HEREWARD AND MISTER FITZ, Garth Nix - 24th August

THE BLUE BEAUTIFUL WORLD, Dr Karen Lord - 31st August

YUMI AND THE NIGHTMARE PAINTER, Brandon Sanderson - 3rd October

TRAITOR OF REDWINTER, Ed McDonald - 26th October

THE NARROW ROAD BETWEEN DESIRES, Patrick Rothfuss - 14th November

‘Dr. Karen Lord is one of our greatest, and in her latest novel, The Blue Beautiful World,she shows us exactly why that is. Dr. Lord is looking at the big picture here. This is not simply a cli-fi book, it is not simply a first contact story, nor is it just a space opera. It is all of these things, it is so much more than these things. We follow Owen, a mega popstar with an uncanny ability to draw a crowd and make people fall in love with him—he is described as being the “hometown hero” of every city, because he sings in every language and appears to be everywhere at once. What exactly happens during his shows is anyone’s guess, but he seems to have the world in his hands, as if by some ultra-human force. Owen and his team find themselves at the center of intergalactic attention, and Owen’s abilities might be the key to helping humanity. The Blue, Beautiful World is tied to others in Dr. Lord’s Cygnus Beta but stands alone brilliantly, with fully fleshed-out characters that you’ll become more and more invested in as the story unravels—the story zooms out to galaxy level and deals heavily with A.I. and cutting-edge technology, but its cornerstone is the relationships between characters and their individual growth throughout. In the way that all great speculative fiction is, it is a story about what makes us human, and how the connections we form with each other are vital to our survival, and it’s told in the most exquisite prose.’

Lovely preview from Christina Orlando for The Blue, Beautiful World!

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Review: Traitor of Redwinter

Review: Traitor of Redwinter by Ed McDonald from Tor Books #books #fantasy #review #magic #politics

I am a series lover. I enjoy spending time in an author’s creation. I love it when author’s explore their worlds and show their imagination. While this is usually something I find in horror, fantasy, and science fiction, it’s not limited to those genres. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry was the first book that I wanted to never end. Traitor of Redwinter by Ed McDonald is the latest book that…

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Check out the GORGEOUS cover for Traitor of Redwinter 🏹

The second in Ed McDonald’s Chronicles of Redwinter, full of shady politics, militant monks, ancient powers... and a young woman navigating a world in which no one is quite what they seem.

Artist: Galen Dara