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Oops, it's quite late for my first review of a book read this year, or, in this case, a reread of a book I read as an adolescent.

Gaal the Conqueror: John White, Eagle, Inter Publishing Service 1992

This is subtitled ‘Book 2 of ‘The Archives of Anthropos’ and follows The Sword Bearer chronologically, filling in gaps between that book and The Tower of Geburah, but it was published fourth in this series. There was a teaser for a further sequel, which led me to discover that two had in fact been published, after the family member who’d bought me my copies of books in this series thought I’d aged out of reading them, so I hadn’t known about them before. I’m feeling reluctant about paying too much out to read them now after this book, and the diminishing returns of this series, in all honesty.

I found this book less satisfying than the earlier books, ( Read more... )

The Iron Sceptre: John White. The Archives of Anthropos 2. Minstrel, 1988.


This is a sequel to The Tower of Geburah, and like that book, was read to me as a child. Some things about it have stayed with me even more than form the previous book, ( Read more... )