Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerMy copy of this book is enhanced by an interesting preface, where Brian Sanderson talks about the particular challenges of writing this book. Apparently, he’d been writing various books for a while, finishing them, moving on to the next book.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third part of The History of Middle Earth is much rougher going for me, as it mostly a couple of very long poems, which I never do so well with. It does gain interest for a couple bits of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Part two of Mating Flight picks up slightly after the first book ended. Trest was conquered at the end of the previous book, and there’s plenty of problems as they don’t realize it yet. Related problems are actually something of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, with the title and subtitle, my original thought that this would be a look at draconic culture where power politics flows around and through the aspects of mating, and you know, not getting killed in the world. I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Howl’s Moving Castle series are all independent books; you can read them separately without any trouble. Howl and Sophie are secondary characters in this third and last installment, as the focus is squarely on a new character, and new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tamora Pierce finishes off her second YA female knight series in great fashion here. There’s been a lot built up during the previous three books, and there’s a lot here. You can read this independently, but I recommend against it.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The final book of the Queen’s Thief series features another change in viewpoint. This time, we get Pheris, who is new for this book, instead of a returning secondary character. Pheris is physically deformed, and is the grandson of Baron[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Golem and the Jinni was a very good historical fantasy with a very character-driven focus. It also had a very intricate plot with a lot of moving parts that don’t come into alignment until the end. That is still[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite having its origin in the same writing project as the first part, this is a fairly separate section and the break helps emphasize that. In-fiction, the bulk of the stories here all intertwine even more than the first part.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, book 2 of a YA fantasy horse series. Warning: there is a cliffhanger ahead. The fact that this leads directly into book 3 explains a few things, because on its own the plot is a mess. Even as the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…