Every Friday, we here @ Del Rey Spectra will place a 50 page excerpt of a selected title on Suvudu. Whether it is science fiction, epic fantasy, alternate history, horror, urban fantasy, paranormal, the possibilities are endless.
This week’s excerpt comes from THE BRIAR KING, by Greg Keyes. If you’re a fan of George R. R. Martin’s wildly popular Fire and Ice series, Keyes’ Briar King is the perfect next read. But don’t take my word for it. Here’s Del Rey Spectra editor Tricia Pasternak:
“I recently worked with Greg Keyes on the two novels he wrote set in the Elder Scrolls universe. Impressed with what marvelous and inventive work Greg had done while playing in someone else’s universe, I not long after turned to his own original epic fantasy series, The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, of which The Briar King is the first volume. I already knew that Greg was a wonderful writer, a skilled forger of fantastic worlds with a rich and capacious imagination.
And yet I was still blown away.
The Briar King is everything you want in an epic fantasy: dark magic and high adventure, corruption and betrayal, heroism and villainy. Between Skyrim and Game of Thrones, epic fantasy is having something of a cultural moment—and I hope you all will seize that moment to check out Greg’s work, one of the best epic fantasies of the last several decades.”
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Please enjoy this excerpt of The Briar King, available wherever books are sold!
