Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerThere are other books in between, which do get referenced here, but this is a direct follow-up to the Alanna quartet. You have a lone female entering into the boys’ world of knights and military training. The… decade and a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Set in the same world as Howl’s Moving Castle, the sequel, or ‘companion’, book does and doesn’t rely on it. The cast of Howl’s doesn’t show up until late, but I wonder if a new reader might not feel a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Niven had a few things to say in The Magic Goes Away, and said them, so I’m always surprised when I see another story set in that world. But they’re generally good, and seem to be a way for him[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My knowledge of fairy and folk tales is pretty minimal, so this is a completely new story for me, despite being based on a Norwegian folk tale. As its own thing, it’s a good story, though you can certainly see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bone is, of course, a wonderful series, so I have to admit to feeling some guilt at taking so long to getting around to the prequel that came out while Bone was still running, especially as a long-time fan of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve found that the best way to sum up this book is, “It’s a Roger Zelazny novel.” For anyone who doesn’t really know what that means, I’ll try to explain. With a world where one half is perpetually day, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Uprooted is big, sprawling, epic fantasy-type of book that really benefits from not being done as a trilogy the way so many in the genre tend to be. Not that it would take a lot to structure it as such,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a series with a name like “The Queen’s Thief”, it would be natural to assume that each book will be another exploit by Eugenides, with a decently similar setup and just a bit episodic. No. The Queen of Attolia[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Having previously read some of Tamora Pierce’s earliest works, I’ve now read one of her more recent. To a certain extent, not a lot has changed: female-centric YA fantasy (in fact, it’s in the same world as those earlier books).[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Historical, fantasy, or romance…? The Golem and the Jinni is a bit of a mix of all three. The Manhattan of 1899 is almost as much a character as anything else in this novel, but it doesn’t feel like a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…