With the gap between books, I had forgotten just how epic Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive is. The perfect blend of world-building, drama, character development, and cinematic action sequences. It’s more than that, though. Words of Radiance, like its predecessor, is basically three full-length novels in one. And on top of that, it is also a […]
This is the sequel to Changes that you’ve been waiting for. While Ghost Story was an eerie intermission after the explosive events of Changes, a clever opportunity to step back and do some character development and world building, Butcher’s latest rises back up to the same level of high-octane storytelling. It’s intense, full of action […]
The end is finally here. Some of you have been waiting more than twenty years for this book, and others less. Either way, the fourteenth and final installment in The Wheel of Time has finally been released to the world. The much-anticipated Last Battle certainly lives up to expectations, spanning the majority of the book, […]
In the city of Camorr, Capa Barsavi rules the criminal underworld with an iron fist. With a policy known as the Secret Peace, unacknowledged but respected by he and Duke Nicovante, the thieves and rogues of the city remain largely safe from the city watchmen. Safe, so long as they don’t operate too overtly…and stay […]
This first story of the Kingkiller Chronicles is told by Kvothe to the Chronicler of the Aturan nobles. Kvothe has withdrawn from the world to live quietly as a rural innkeeper, Kote. The Chronicler recognizes him and wishes to record the truth from him about his past. Kvothe is the orphan son of a bard/troupe […]
This third book in the Wicked Years follows the interrogation of Yackle by Brrr, the Cowardly Lion, regarding her interest in and dealings with Elphaba, from Wicked. Specifically, he has been tasked with finding any information on the whereabouts of Elphaba’s book of magic, the Grimmerie, for the Emperor of Emerald City, Shell, Elphaba’s half-brother. […]
It seems like such a long time since I first read Terrier, the first book in Tamora Pierce’s Provost’s Dog trilogy. Oh wait, that’s because it was six years ago, back in 2006. I only hazily remember the plot of the first book, but I remember enjoying it. (It’s definitely one of Pierce’s better books.) […]
The Wise Man’s Fear is the continuation of Patrick Rothfuss’s brilliant debut novel, The Name of the Wind. It’s every bit as enjoyable as the first, and it’s about three hundred pages longer, which is always a welcome improvement. Day two of Kvothe the Arcane’s chronicle of his life features his adventures among the Adem […]
The Name of the Wind is the story of a legend. Kvothe, the renowned hero famous for his skills in magic and music, somehow ends up as an innkeeper in a small village in the middle on nowhere after faking his death. Why? That’s what the scribe known as the Chronicler wants to find out […]
Harbingers, book ten in the Repairman Jack series, seems like the beginning of the end. Jack has been dragged into the middle of the battle between the Otherness and the Ally, and his fate as the Heir to the immortal Sentinel is revealed. But it soon becomes clear that though the Ally opposes the Otherness […]
