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Martha Wells Humble Bundle!

There's a Humble Bundle up currently (August 2025) with all the Murderbot books PLUS a bunch of Martha Wells's fantasy works! The partner charity is the excellent World Central Kitchen.

#the murderbot diaries #martha wells #ile-rien #humble bundle

Tremaine Valiarde! For those who haven’t read Martha Wells’ Ile-Rien series, she’s a deeply suspicious, mentally ill writer and world-hopper who does not have the time or the fucks to fix her hair. I love her and the entire series dearly.

#Martha wells #ile-rien #the fall of ile rien

I've been really enjoying Martha Wells's Death of the Necromancer. I needed a good queer fantasy heist with juicy political intrigue and this not only hits the spot but actively makes the spot harder to hit for other books.

On a side note, the main character reminds me significantly of Percy de Rolo. Definitely less grimdark edgy and pretentious (affectionate), but just as revenge-obsessed, prone to thinking he's the smartest person in every room even when he's definitely not, and a bisexual wifeguy to boot. Very good at making himself seem respectable until you realize that he's actually fully unhinged. I want to pin him down and study him like a bug.

#book adventures #ile-rien #I haven't been doing much bookposting recently #mostly cause I haven't read anything that really excited me in a while #may make a summary post for what I've read so far in 2023 though #also the main character isn't 100% confirmed bi but I'm pretty sure that's what the implication is #there's a scene where another character who knows him well #says he thinks he would have slept with him under other circumstances #and his female partner is like 'yes that tracks'

The Fall of Ile-Rien: Fancast

Having just finished the absolute joy that is Martha Wells’s The Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy for the first time, I’ve been moved to make a fancast for the TV adaptation that ought by rights to exist. I’m taking some liberties with the ages of characters because a good TV show would need flashbacks and also because I want to, so there. More minor characters from the later books not included. Extremely mild spoilers for the series as a whole. THUS:

Tremaine - Alicia Vikander

Simultaneously tired and full of rage

Fuelled by coffee and sarcasm

Has no patience for bullshit

Survivor

Having feelings is incovenient and also the worst, actually

Florian - Eleanor Tomlinson

Chronically underestimated despite being a sorcerer of Ile-Rien

Brave

Resourceful

Exasperated

Surrounded by infuriating people (Tremaine)

Gerard - Michael Sheen

Talented sorcerer of Ile-Rien

Would really just like to sit down somewhere quiet with a cup of tea

Does not get to do this

Is Tremaine’s guardian (a primary reason for the above)

Surrounded by youthful, energetic people he keeps having to save

Ander - Charlie Hesketh

Thinks he’s the romantic lead

Is not actually the romantic lead

Is actually an enormous pain in everyone’s ass

Does not realise he’s getting by on sufferance (Tremaine’s)

Occasionally useful despite himself

Ilias - Garrett Hedlund

Doesn’t think he’s the romantic lead

Is actually the romantic lead

Wizard-hunter

Has Seen Some Shit

Will die on a battlefield for Giliead and Tremaine

Giliead - Jon Kortajarena

The God of Cineth’s Chosen Vessel

Brooding but in a nice way

Has also Seen Some Shit

Wizard-hunter

Would die on a battlefield for Ilias

Ixion - Dane Dehaan

Syprian wizard, aka The Worst

Was beheaded once but he got better

Likes to make monsters and kill people

Regrettably good at surviving

Manipulative

Nicholas - Richard Armitage

Tremaine’s father

A talented bastard gentleman thief (emphasis on the bastard)

Frequently presumed dead

Does not suffer fools

Cunning

Arisilde - Paul Bettany

Absurdly talented sorcerer of Ile-Rien

Vanished under mysterious circumstances

In cahoots with Nicholas

Mentally adrift in time but eerily right in hindsight

Good

Niles - Bradley James

Sorcerer of Ile-Rien

Chronically overworked

Fashionable

Annoyed

Dependable

#ile-rien #martha wells #fancast #tremaine valiarde #ilias #florian #giliead #nicholas valiarde #arisilde damal #ander destan #ixion #niles

Nicholas Valiarde from Martha Wells’ book The Death of the Necromancer!! Referenced from concept art of the Outsider from Dishonored 🗡️🗡️🗡️

#martha wells #the death of the necromancer #nicholas valiarde #ile-rien

as i have been reading all of martha wells fantasy work recently here's my martha wells bingo card of things i keep noticing over and over

(i have just started the raksura series so i have not much idea if this works for those books but i have an inkling)

(not all are for every book but all are in more than one, if you have any suggestions feel free to edit this)

#murderbot #martha wells #ile-rien #witch king #city of bones #wheel of the infinite #books of the raksura #edit: i want yall to know i have read multiple raksura books and its so easy to get bingo damn

The Book of Ile-Rien | ARC Review

Thank you to Tor Publishing Group and Netgalley for the review copy in exchange for an honest review. This does not change my opinion in anyway. Book: The Book of Ile-Rien (Ile-Rien 1 & 2) by Martha Wells Rerelease Date: February 27th 2024Tags: Fantasy | Duology | Magic | Fae | Necromancy Trigger/Content Warnings: Death | Violence | Murder | PoisonOther books by this author I reviewed Witch King…

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#duology #fae #fantasy #Ile-Rien #magc #martha wells #Necromancy #The Book of Ile-Rien #TW: deat #TW: murder #TW: Poison #TW: Violence

Tor pulled their ebook editions of the first two Ile-Rien books out of stores in preparation for rerelease as an updated and revised duology text that’s coming out next year.

But apparently Black Gate magazine published the whole book for The Death of the Necromancer “with permission” 2013 and it’s still up on their site: https://www.blackgate.com/black-gate-online-fiction-the-death-of-the-necromancer-part-one/

I have the audiobook from the library, but it’s nice to have a text to refer to now!

Black Gate Online Fiction: The Death of the Necromancer, Chapter One – Black Gate

#the death of the necromancer #martha wells #ile rien #ile-rien