Words, words, words. This section of The Griffin or the Agate is dedicated to bringing you the best in previews of soon-to-be released fantasy books. Whether this will whet your appetite for a new work from one of your favorite authors or possibly expose you to something new, the book section will offer honest opinions for your perusal. We won’t be afraid to step on toes. Honest. In addition, from time to time we’ll review classics in the genre, or just books and series that you might have overlooked but shouldn’t miss.

An Unexpected Apprentice by Jodi Lynn Nye 400 pages Hardcover Tor Books $25.95 US ISBN 9780765314338

    If it were permissible to warm potential readers of a book by using a single line from the text as an example of the lameness that waited inside the covers, An Unexpected Apprentice would be done right about after this doozy, written without a drop of irony or self-mocking:

Right here, now, in front of the altar of Nature, he apologized on behalf of his species. p. 333

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