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101/100 It took me over a year to finish this, not because it wasn't good, just enjoyed it more in pieces instead all at once. Like all anthologies by various authors, some stories were great, some were just okay, and only one clunker. Surprisingly, the George RR Martin Game of Thrones story was one of the weaker ones. My favorites were "Her Father's Sword" by Robin Hobbs, "Hrunting" by C.J. Cherryh, "When I Was A Highway Man" by Ellen Kushner,

"So, she went from being the child of a village, loved and nurtured by all, to being a child of nothing and no one, with a swiftness that left scars so deep they might never heal."

#FirstLineFridays @shybookowl

The book isn't a novelisation of the 2025 movie, but it was released at around the time it was in production, so I've borrowed a film poster image ?

We're visiting our son in Ely for his birthday, and popping into Toppings for a Christmas present for my great-niece, I made an impulse purchase of the tagged.
It's based on the comics version of the character - sword-and-sorcery in Conan the Cimmerian's Hyborian Age - rather than R. E. Howard's prose version - historical adventure in medieval France - and I'm prepared to allow it a degree of schlock latitude, so anything better than that will ⬇️

I don‘t have a cat…so I borrowed one. This is Ozzy, he is my daughter‘s cat. Her partner scooped him up from the middle of a busy London road as he nearly got run over: literally, a rescued cat. After an announcement on the neighbourhood chat, a visit to vet to check for a chip, he is now part of the family.Sadly he stone deaf and has a neurological issue that means he wobbles like he‘s been on the sauce.This was my first Gemmell. It was top notch

Great collection of creatures for the scarred land d20 setting!

1. Went shopping and ran errands + starbies with a friend
2.Bubbaroni turned 6 months!
3.Book buying ban officially ended
4.My husband got me some cheerful flowers for my desk
5.my labubu and lafufu came in
#5joysfriday @DebinHawaii

Catching up on reviews. 🤦‍♀️

3 ⭐️s
A decent adventure story. Slow start, the ending is where all the action is. I loved the characters and their relationships. I‘ll pick up the next book someday.

Despite being the title and featuring on the cover, the wereanimal battle is about four pages max. 😒

This was one of my January picks for #Roll100.

Finished last night with this collection of short stories loved 10 of the stories while the others were okay… I have some great new authors to explore and some amazing authors that I‘ve already read… I can‘t wait to read more by the authors I really enjoyed

I enjoyed all seven stories to some degree, so overall 4⭐

My favourite two were "Bazaar of the Bizarre" by Leiber, with his humorous take, before that was a thing, on a more typically grim genre &; Mazirian the Magician by Vance, which is just classic low fantasy, and makes me regret having let go of his Dying Earth books sometime in my prehistory.
Editor, de Camp's, offering was interesting in his intention of making his story more realistic,⬇️

An exciting night of intrigue, murder & theft for Conan in a desert oasis town inhabited by cannibals & strange cults.

An opportunity for Howard to demonstrate some of his worst racism, with a seasoning of predatory sexism. Apologists say it's of its time: it's still 💩

My 4⭐ rating is based solely on the fantasy/adventure elements I read Howard for, & that while Conan is, famously, savage, he also isn't as thick as he's sometimes portrayed.