My last reading gauntlet of 2020 includes some real winners. Sword of Destiny is a collection of short stories set in The Witcher universe; The Thousand Names is an epic fantasy novel that mixes magic and the gunpowder age. In the Name of Heaven started solid, but the writing style was clunky and hard to track with at time. Joe Abercrombie's Half a King, the first in a trilogy, set the stage for Half the World, which I read earlier this year, and it was great. The Heretic Kings is the second installment of Paul Kearney's Monarchies of God series, and though it wasn't as good as Hawkwood's Voyage, it sets the stage for a supposedly explosive third book in the series. The last book is Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction War Lord, the thirteenth and last volume in his Saxon Tales Series (which has been adapted for TV as The Last Kingdom, the title of the first book). It's a sad day when I finish a good series, and the sadness will be repeated next year when I hopefully finish Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin Series as well as Cornwell's Sharpe Series (though rumor has it that with the conclusion of the Saxon Tales, he's going to churn out another installment revolving around the Napoleonic-era Richard Sharpe).
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