Infernal Machines

I am a poor person, usually all my reading material comes from used book stores. I was blown away when I read the Incorruptibles. I was also sadenned by the fact that JHJ books don't sell as much and he doesn't get the recognition that he deserves (for me he is one of the top fantasy writers around)......more

A decent closure to a trilogy.......more

JHJ is an author who doesn't get enough praise. He writes the kind of wild, weird and wonderful stories that tick every box for me. Fantasy, in some cases has become boring, pedestrian, repetitive and predictable. A farm boy becomes a hero. There are lots of typical stories. Jacobs takes the mould o......more

Sigh.... where to begin? Loved the first book in the series which set out a world as a cross between Roman and Wild West with magic. The first book for me was almost lyrical in its depiction of the world. In particular the descriptions of the landscape, trees and rocks, people made the world truly co......more

As an ending, this is a book full of loss, sin, and misery. There is hope, though, and enough of our heroes make it through to make an ending that is happy enough. There are threads that I felt still needed tying up, but there is real closure here. A fine ending. A red ending.......more