Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThe introduction to this book is interesting, as we find there is something of a path to this second book that leads through another book on to another. Essentially, Wrede wrote a sequel, then wrote a book in between (this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan’s, name is best remembered with the cardigan sweater. The person will forever be known as the man who led the Charge of the Light Brigade. At the time, he was already well known, as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We begin in Jerusalem, where fights break out at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre over whether Orthodox or Catholic priests had priority for their rituals when both versions of the calculation of Easter fell on the same day in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third Aubrey/Maturin novel takes does a good job getting the balls back in the air. We start with Aubrey temporarily in command of a frigate watching Toulon as part of the Mediterranean blockade. Ordered back to Gibraltar, on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Book two of The Expanse has the same outline structure. Bad things happen, a man becomes very single-focused obsessed with finding a missing person, he runs into James Holden, mayhem ensues. Structurally, it is different. We do change viewpoint characters,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a book where the subtitle is accurate and sums up the book far better than the title ever could: “Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War”. This is also Robert Massie at his best. Typically, he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This covers the second half of the initial anime season. (Or, much more properly, the anime covers this.) It retains the format of being smaller stories stitched together. The book gives them as chapters, but they are separate stories, connected[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second Star Trek: Picard novel is more successful as a story, but this is at the price of it being less successful as a prequel. For those who kept up with post-series novels over the last twenty years (I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of the Revolutions trilogy is a rarity for me. I actually read the first book early enough to be eagerly anticipating the release of the second. In general, it has lived up to the anticipation. It does[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The eighth Suzumiya book is structurally different from before. The series has been a combination of short story collections and novels. This time, we get two novellas. The first one circles back around to the start of the series and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…