Thank you to Randy Price for alerting me (in a comment on last Monday’s post) to the The Heir of Night being included in Fantasy Book Review‘s list of Top 100 Fantasy Books

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You can find it at Number 66, with a few nice words about the book as well. 🙂

Gracias, too, Randy, for saying you would have ranked it higher 😀 — but it’s very nice to see HEIR included in the Top 100, and enjoying the  “crown of good company.”

To mark the moment, here’s a quote from page 66 of The Heir of Night (the UK mass market paperback edition):

The Earl’s brows had drawn together while Haimyr spoke.  “Of late?” he inquired ominously.  “What do you mean, ‘of late’?  … Am I to understand that my daughter has been going into the Old Keep, which is forbidden, and that some or all of you knew, yet did nothing about it?” 

Only Haimyr and the Honor Captain seemed unperturbed by his wrath.  The minstrel was concentrating on brushing dust from his golden cuff, but Asantir met the Earl’s stare, her gauntleted hands resting on the buckle of her sword belt.  “I think we all knew it, myself included,” she replied gravely. “Yet every keep child and new recruit has to go there at least once as a rite of passage—and Malian is your daughter, after all.”

— from Chapter 5, The Broken Gate

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