Wolfblade

Sometimes all you want to do is curl up with a cherished book that you’ve read a couple of times before, filled with characters that have become so familiar to you that turning the pages is like saying “Hello, old friend, I’ve missed you.”  But instead you pick a random fantasy novel at the library and quickly realize that you are reading the works of someone who read a book that you cherished and thought “I CAN DO THAT!” and now your old friends are slightly off and seem to be slowly turning into Deep Ones.  I’d lay down good money that Jennifer Fallon read the Song of Ice and Fire series and was just so inspired she had to make her own version of Martin’s tale.  It’s an amusing and frustrating blend of “I can make this a little cleaner and easier to understand and get rid of all that nasty incest,” and “I can be just as savage to my characters has he can!” But that’s not to say that the whole story is a retelling of ASOIAF.

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