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Two Days, Three Authors, Eight Books and Hundreds of Fans!

I would like to start this post with an apology. An apology for the lack of posts....I completely blame the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the amount of books I needed to read in such a short period of time. Also because it was the Long List I was not allowed to blog about it. Big Book Secrets. But I'm back and I decided to come back with a bang. This bang includes the magic of Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch and Veronica Roth.  Whilst standing in a Queue in the boiling basement of Forbidden Planet waiting for two of my favourite fantasy authors to appear and begin signing the books which had drawn an inordinate amount of people to Shaftsbury Avenue on Tuesday evening, I began talking to the two women in front of me. We discussed exactly how we felt the first time we read Rothfuss's Name of the Wind and how Lynch's  Lies of Locke Lamora (Click for Review)  is the most intricately written fantasy novel of the last fifty years.  My friends and I were sur