I picked this up when there was a Kindle sale on Thomas Costain books a bit ago. I hadn’t been aware of him writing a series on Canada, and it turns out the reason is he didn’t. This is the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Okay, in parts, this is well-trodden fantasy ground. You have an order of warriors dedicated to fighting demons. You have a scrappy girl who prefers martial pursuits to marital ones. She joins the aforesaid order in disguise because girls aren’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is another Andre Norton that I’m sure I read ages ago, but don’t have any clear memories of anymore. This is the first of the “High Hallack” Witch World novels, which I always generally enjoyed more than the Estcarp[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was recommended to me by someone who’s opinion I trust, so I expected a good book going in. It exceeded my expectations. Despite the title, this is not just an examination of the Battle of Agincourt. It occupies a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, military science-fiction is always a selling point for me, and I have taken too long to get to this series. It is always presented as a series, and with good reason. While this is a complete story, structure-wise, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Purkiss’ history of the ECW was something of a slog for me to get through. The general idea as given is admirable: to look at the English Civil War as something that involved people, and see how various people were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the original Forgotten Realms boxed set, Evermeet is a somewhat mysterious place off the map, where the elves have slowly been retreating to as their continental holdings fall. It’s impossible not to compare with Tolkien at that point, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fourth book of the Queen’s Thief series changes main characters again. This time, honors go to Sophos, returning from a primary character role in The Thief. The first section of the book is entirely arranged as him telling what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This book gets a few ratings of ‘biography’, and… yes, actually, this is a fairly decent biography of Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan, as it goes into his background and life as a whole. However, it is primarily about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have the Kindle version of this, which means there’s a few OCR glitches scattered about. However, unlike most such I’ve seen, they don’t become more prevalent the further through the book you go. Overall, the electronic version is in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…