Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerNaomi Novik’s latest novel is currently my favorite by her. It’s very strong, well written, and avoids the minor issues I had with Uprooted. There is a bit as it gets going where the number of viewpoint characters increase from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Roberson’s latest Tiger & Del novel keeps up the high quality of the series. The pair are finally settled down and going off into ever-after land, when Neesha decides he wants more adventure. This doesn’t turn it into Neesha’s story.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mostly know Ursula for Digger, and other less kid-oriented books. Those all show a wonderful sense of humor that would find itself at home in a younger audience, and so it is here. A definite advantage of her younger[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was something of a random pick up in the middle the Estcarp books. It stands well on it own, though there is a lot that follows from the previous few books. However, a three-page summary of the major events[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The good news is that this is another good book in Freeman’s Borderlands series. Even better, we see more of Suiden this time. The bad news is that it’s the last. This is especially bad because there are unresolved threads.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Covenants, the first book of Lorna Freeman’s Borderlands series circles around and comes to an end pretty much where it started. The King’s Own picks up very shortly after this, and has the further adventures of Rabbit after the Border[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This isn’t quite a sequel to Sing the Four Quarters, since the locale and characters change. However, the world is the same, and the magic is the same, though it ends up elaborated a bit more here. It does take[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third and fourth books featured in this collection are better than the first two. Interestingly, they also don’t focus on Chrestomanci, and seem to happen around the same time as the first book (as opposed to decades before as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Guy Gavriel Kay is an author who I really, really need to read more of. My first experience with him (Tigana) was very good, and I’ve been meaning to read more for a couple decades now. Thankfully, I was reminded[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Children of Ynell series was originally published from 1977 to 1981, and was the first time I got involved in a series that wasn’t finished yet. In fact, I never did get the final book in a series I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…