Bring Down Heaven The City Stained Red, Book 1, (Paperback)

from blodeuedd

I do like a messed up city, you know, the kind of city where you would never want to live, heck you would not even want to visit. It makes for a good story and a good setting.In this city things are brewing. It has grown fat on it's on people. Some are rich, some have nothing. Spiders roam everyw...

from StigE

Great characters, dialogue, action, city-building, snark and humour. Unfortunately the mix never quite left the ground. There were lots of excellent scenes and elements of really stunning writing, but the flow of the book was jerky and the scenes at times seem to be almost from different books. I...

from ladycato

Add this to the list of epic fantasy that is much better than Song of Ice and Fire. City Stained Red takes the basic genre troops of the assorted fantasy party of humans and 'oids, twists everything around, and adds a major dose of wit and humor. Make no mistake--it's an intense and dark read, wh...

from stefferoo

The City Stained Red is the start of Sam Sykes' new series called Bring Down Heaven and it takes place in the same “universe” as his Aeon's Gate trilogy. Happily, you do not have to have read the latter before tackling the former. In fact, I wasn't even aware that the two series were linked until...

from RoseCrossed

I won this book in a goodreads giveaway. I was absolutely psyched to see I had won this, as it was on my must-buy list. I haven't read the first trilogy featuring these characters but that did not detract from my enjoyment of this book at all. This book is a good-time, adventuring novel. It remin...