WWW WEDNESDAY: January 13th, 2016

Hello again! How’s your Wednesday been? Good I hope.

Anyways, for those of you who don’t know, WWW Wednesday is a meme hosted by Taking On A World of Words where three question are asked:

What are you currently reading?

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Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild.

Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern’s jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men – or worse, a company of mercenaries – against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder.

It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it.

The Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he’s determined to turn a profit. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery, it’s just another job. The abby is rich, the nuns are pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can’t deal with.

Only it’s not just a job. It’s going to be a war…

I am currently reading The Red Knight by Miles Cameron. It’s quite a chunky book at over seven hundred pages and the writing style itself makes it not the easiest of reads. This makes it one of those books where I wouldn’t be surprised if I gave up on it simply because it’s written with so much complicated detail I can’t focus. Am I the only one who does that?

What did you recently finish?

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Laia is a slave.

Elias is a soldier.

Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

I recently finished An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir, and it was a typical YA Fantasy book, but I did quite enjoy it. My review for it should be up soon.

What do you think you’ll read next?

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There is a cancer at the heart of the mighty Cerani Empire: a plague that attacks young and old, rich and poor alike. Geometric patterns spread across the skin, until you die in agony, or become a Carrier, doing the bidding of an evil intelligence, the Pattern Master. Anyone showing the tell-tale marks is put to death; that is Emperor Beyon’s law…but now the pattern is running over the Emperor’s own arms.

His body servants have been executed, he ignores his wives, but he is doomed, for soon the pattern will reach his face.

While Beyon’s agents scour the land for a cure, Sarmin, the Emperor’s only surviving brother, awaits his bride, Mesema, a windreader from the northern plains. Unused to the Imperial Court’s stifling protocols and deadly intrigues, Mesema has no one to turn to but an aging imperial assassin, the Emperor’s Knife.

As long-planned conspiracies boil over into open violence, the invincible Pattern Master appears from the deep desert. Only three people stand in his way: a lost prince, a world-weary killer, and a young girl from the steppes who once saw a path in a pattern — a path that might save them all.

I just ordered a load of books and I’m hoping to read one of them next. But, if they happen to not arrive before I finish this book, I think I’ll be reading The Emperor’s Knife by Mazarkis Williams. I have tried reading it twice before and failed a couple pages in. I want to at least try and get fifty pages into the book before I give up again.

I just realised how much fantasy I’ve been reading recently. It seems I’ve fallen down the fantasy rabbit hole again.

Anywho, if you have a WWW Wednesday post of your own leave the link for it in the comments so I can check it out.

Happy reading!