{"id":13,"date":"2012-06-18T21:31:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T21:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/06\/18\/books-received-61812-pyr-edition-part-i\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:21","slug":"books-received-61812-pyr-edition-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/06\/18\/books-received-61812-pyr-edition-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 6\/18\/12 Pyr edition Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51V-EfBlSqL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Guile-Dragons-Tournament-Shadows-Book\/dp\/1616146281\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1340053750&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=9781616146283\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">A Guile of Dragons<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby James Enge<br \/>\nCover by Steve Stone<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s dwarves versus dragons in this origin story for Enge&#8217;s signature character, Morlock Ambrosius!<\/p>\n<p>Before history began, the dwarves of Thrymhaiam fought against the dragons as the Longest War raged in the deep roads beneath the Northhold. Now the dragons have returned, allied with the dead kings of Cor and backed by the masked gods of Fate and Chaos.<\/p>\n<p>The dwarves are cut off from the Graith of Guardians in the south. Their defenders are taken prisoner or corrupted by dragonspells. The weight of guarding the Northhold now rests on the crooked shoulders of a traitor&#8217;s son, Morlock syr Theorn (also called Ambrosius).<\/p>\n<p>But his wounded mind has learned a dark secret in the hidden ways under the mountains. Regin and Fafnir were brothers, and the Longest War can never be over&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51MtMUZTj6L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Skybound-Aeons-Gate-Book-Three\/dp\/1616146761\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1340053953&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=9781616146764\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The Skybound Sea (The Aeons&#8217; Gate Book Three)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Sam Sykes<br \/>\nCover by Paul Young<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After the misadventures of the first two books Lenk and his companions must finally turn away from fighting each other and for their own survival and look to saving the entire human race. A terrible demon has risen from beneath the sea and where it came from thousands could follow. And all the while an alien race is planning the extinction of humanity. The third volume in the Aeon&#8217;s Gate trilogy widens the action out dramatically. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tome-Undergates-Aeons-Gate-Book\/dp\/1616142421\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1340054067&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=TOME+OF+THE+UNDERGATES\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">TOME OF THE UNDERGATES<\/a> was based mainly on a ship, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Halo-Aeons-Gate-Book\/dp\/161614355X\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1340054067&amp;amp;sr=1-2&amp;amp;keywords=TOME+OF+THE+UNDERGATES\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">BLACK HALO<\/a> moved the action to an island of bones, THE SKYBOUND SEA takes us out into a world threatened with a uniquely imagined and terrifying apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/515YmQ6E4jL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Reaper-Lightbringer-K-D-Mcentire\/dp\/161614632X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1340054140&amp;amp;sr=1-1&amp;amp;keywords=9781616146320\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Reaper<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby K. D. McEntire<br \/>\nCover by Sam Weber<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reaper is set in a world a breath away from our own. After the death of her mother, Wendy is attempting to fill her mother&#8217;s shoes and discovering that the prospect is far more difficult than she ever imagined. Learning that she is part of a powerful and ancient family of Reapers that her mother had forsaken is just the first surprise\u2014Wendy soon discovers that the San Francisco Bay Never is filled with political powers and factions both previously unknown and completely mysterious to Wendy. Since both her mother and Piotr are gone, Wendy must struggle to maneuver between the machinations of the dead and the dark intentions of her living Reaper family.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually betrayed and made sick unto death, the clock is ticking before Wendy will fall\u2014she has only a matter of days to unravel the mysteries her mother left behind and to convince her wary family to accept her as one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblog_entry.php?e=3217\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Part II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. A Guile of Dragons by James Enge Cover by Steve Stone Promo copy: It&#8217;s dwarves versus dragons in this origin story for Enge&#8217;s signature character, Morlock Ambrosius! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/06\/18\/books-received-61812-pyr-edition-part-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2012\/06\/18\/books-received-61812-pyr-edition-part-i\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Books received 6\/18\/12 Pyr edition Part I - The Geek Curmudgeon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. 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