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Reddit mentions of The Path of Flames (Chronicles of the Black Gate Book 1)
Sentiment score: 8
Reddit mentions: 12
We found 12 Reddit mentions of The Path of Flames (Chronicles of the Black Gate Book 1). Here are the top ones.
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Release date | May 2016 |
Some of my favorite books available on Kindle Unlimited:
They Mostly Come Out At Night and Where the Waters Turn Black by Benedict Patrick
Paternus by Dyrk Ashton
Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
The Half Killed by Quenby Olson
A Star Reckoners Lot by Darrell Drake
Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe
Jaeth's Eye by K. S. Villoso
Here are some that I haven't read, but have heard mostly positive things about:
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes
Revenant Winds by Mitchell Hogan
Ghosts of Tomorrow by Michael R Fletcher
A Warrior's Path by Davis Ashura
Valley of Embers by Steven Kelliher
Faithless by Graham Austin-King. He also has another series, The Riven Wyrde Saga, beginning with Fae - The Wild Hunt
Ours is the Storm by D. Thourson Palmer
Path of Man by Matt Moss
Threat of Madness by D.K. Holmberg
To Whatever End by Claire Frank
House of Blades by Will Wight
Path of Flames by Phil Tucker
The Woven Ring by M. D. Presley
Awaken Online: Catharsis by Travis Bagwell
Wolf of the North by Duncan M. Hamilton
Free the Darkness by Kel Kade
The Cycle of Arawn Trilogy by Edward W. Robinson
Dawn of Wonder by Jonathan Renshaw
Benjamim Ashwood by AC Cobble
The Crimson Queen by Alec Hutson
The Queens Poinsoner by Jeff Wheeler
Stiger's Tigers by Marc Alan Edelheit
Rise of the Ranger by Philip C. Quaintrell
Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron
Devil's Night Dawning by Damien Black
Here are some older fantasy and sci-fi books that I enjoyed:
Tales of Nevèrÿon by Samuel R. Delany - African inspired S&S by an extremely talented writer.
Witch World as well as other good books by Andre Norton
Swords and Deviltry The first volume of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser by Fritz Leiber - Many of the tropes of the rogue/thief came from this legendary duo created by Leiber. And it's worth noting that Leiber actually coined the term Sword & Sorcery. This collection contains 3 stories, two average origin stories for each character and the final story is the Hugo and Nebula winning novella "Ill Met in Lankhmar" detailing the first meeting of Fafhrd and The Grey Mouser.
Swords Against Darkness - A '70s S&S anthology. It has few stinkers, a few mediocre stories, and a some really good ones. Poul Anderson and Ramsey Campbell both have awesome stories in this anthology that are well worth checking out. For some reason, there were quite a few typos in this book, it was slightly distracting, but may have been fixed since I read it.
The Best of C. L. Moore by C. L. Moore. I read this earlier this year and I absolutely loved it. The collection is all sci-fi and one Jirel of Joiry story, which is her famous female Sword & Sorcery character. I was suprised by how well her sci-fi stories held up, often times pulp sci-fi doesn't age well, but this collection was great. Moore was married to the writer Henry Kuttner, and up until his death they wrote a bunch of great stories together. Both of their collections are basically collaborations, although I'm sure a few stories were done solo. His collection The Best of Henry Kuttner features the short story that the movie The Last Mimzy was based on. And, if you are into the original Twilight Zone TV series there is a story that was adapted into a memorable season 1 episode entitled "What You Need". Kuttner and Moore are two of my favorite pulp authors and I'm not even that into science fiction, but I really enjoy their work.
Hey folks, I'm Phil Tucker, author of The Chronicles of the Black Gate and The Godsblood Trilogy. I'm thrilled to be here, and thanks to Mark and Dyrk for putting on this AMA!
I completely understand. Some characters rub me the wrong way as well! Thanks for giving my work a try. And I'd encourage you to keep giving indie writers opportunities. There are some great works out there. I'd recommend Phil Tucker's The Path of Flames, Timandra Whitecastel's Touch of Iron, and Benedict Patrick's They Only Come Out at Night.
Here's the Path of Flames link : https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01DTTO9MI/
Pro tip: there's an Audible-produced audiobook of POF coming REALLY soon, and grabbing the cheap ebook now should let you take advantage of the reduced price audiobook thingy that Amazon tends to offer if you already have the ebook.
Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko
Chronicles of the Black Gate by Phil Tucker
The Aching God by Mike Shel
The Castes and the OutCastes by Davis Ashura
Paternus by Dyrk Ashton
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I could keep going all day, but here's some starters, ha!
Good list of recommendations.
Personal highlights include all books by Andrew Rowe (especially War of the Broken Mirrors), Phil Tuckers Chronicles of the Black Gate, Paternus and A Star Reckoners Lot.
/u/esmerelda-weatherwax has an awesome blog where she reviews lots of indie books - Most of them are part of KU.
Phil Tucker's Chronicles of the Black Gate series is in KU and quite good.
Here's the link to Amazon, if anyone is interested!
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DTTO9MI
Let me know if this breaks any rules!
U.S. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Path-Flames-Chronicles-Black-Gate-ebook/dp/B01DTTO9MI/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1504539676&sr=1-2&keywords=path+of+flames
Perhaps these might be your thing. "Best" is subjective.... so you are subject to my opinion, heh. They ought to keep you warm for a bit.
Phil Tucker's Path of Flames series
Benedict Patrick's Yarnsworld series
Patrick Weekes' Rogues of the Republic series
Tad Williams, A Stark and Wormy Knight
Mike Shel's Aching God
Brett Herman's Chaos Trims My Beard
Evan Winters' Rage of Dragons
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It's in this year's SPFBO and Pornokitch gave it such a great review that I had to pick it up right away. IMO it's the real deal and might be the next Blood Song. Go read the kindle sample already.
This is just a really good dark fantasy series that no one ever talks about.
One of the very few fantasy books that not only doesn't have human protagonists, but the world doesn't even have 'standard' humans. Well worth trying out
The Heir of Night is a strong first book that manages to tread the line between young adult and "adult fantasy" really well. The second and third books in the series just get even stronger.
How many books do you read about an Aztec priest forced to solve a mysterious death? Unless you've read this series, not enough.
This book won last year's SPFBO and out of the books I read in that competition, it was easily my favorite. Sadly it's no longer free, but even for $6, it's a complete bargain.
This is a book filled with strong characters and an engaging plot. It didn't really stick the ending, but I still enjoyed it.
This series starts out feeling built on two stereotypical societies, but the author does a really good job of making things more complicated than they first appear and including a really rousing story. All four books of the series are now out and they're completely worth your time.
Maybe the only book on my list that will actually make it big, despite 12 Kings being recently published, it was just too strong a book to not to include on my list.
It's the second book in the series and while the first book was good, Heaven's Needle just hits it out of the park.