Oddly, neither of these is published by Humdrumming, but both are highly recommended.

I am now another convert from the ‘I hate books with dragons on the cover’ camp. Tim Lebbon’s writing is resistant to all but ‘good things important to the story’, and doesn’t rise above the troll and swords genre so much as generally rape it for all that is useful and chuck in the bin anything that’s less than that.

As a result, Mr. Lebbon’s books really aren’t “books with dragons on the cover”, so I suppose I can go on hating the typical Warriors of Gor or Dragonriders of Mystik Valley shite that has no purpose to my mind except providing something for some people to obsess endlessly about.

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