Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerAs 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…
“T. Kingfisher” is a pseudonym for Ursula Vernon’s more ‘grown up’ books, but The Seventh Bride is really more Young Adult in my eyes. Certainly, the level of writing is still in that area (that’s not bad, the book just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The problem with reviewing this is that I don’t know where to start…. Digger is one of those rare things from the world of webcomics: A small project that bloomed into a larger story, and then came in for a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The final volume of Kate Elliot’s Crown of Stars series has a lot of work to do. The cast has grown enormous, multiple threats are coming at the main characters from completely different sources, and the political situation is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In origin, this is half a book. Each volume of the Crown of Stars series was longer than the last, and here at the end it finally got too long to put under one cover. It’s also hard to figure[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grabbed this graphic novel at APE a few weeks ago, and it’s pretty good. It’s a collection of six stories, each with a different artist, but the same writer. Each story makes a good whole, so the graphic novel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the Crown of Stars series nears its end, this book loses its individual identity. There’s no real ‘spine’ overtly holding this book together as a unit. No new characters to speak of. As a result, The Gathering Storm does[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The very beginning of The Disfavored Hero directly states that this is an alternate Japan (Naipon) where myth is real. This is something that should never be said in a novel. Let your creation stand on its own feet, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…