One legend that I’ve always found interesting is the story of Nicholas Flamel and the Philosopher’s Stone, something that seems to be largely ignored in the United States. I learned of it through Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, a book that was originally title, and known in Great Britain as, Harry Potter and the […]
A couple weeks ago, not long after the new Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack was released, I decided to finally give World of Warcraft a try. I’d heard a lot about the game over the years, and though I’ve played a few MMORPGs, I never tried WoW. So I downloaded and installed the […]
Tamora Pierce’s latest book Melting Stones, which just recently came out in hardcover, is a first-person account by the stone mage Evvy previously introduced in Street Magic. Evvy and Rosethorn traven to the Battle Islands, along with Dedicate Myrrhtide and the talking rock (a.k.a “Heart of a Mountain”) Luvo, to investigate occurances of dying plants […]
The Battle of the Labyrinth (by Rick Riordan) is the fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, an interesting series that brings the ancient Greek gods to the modern day United States. Witty and quite different to anything else out there, the books really grab your attention and draw you in. (The […]
In this 4th book of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, the series is getting complicated. There are four main threads to the storyline, with the characters going off in different directions, plus more sub-threads to be continued later. The book starts with Rand al’Thor in charge of the Stone of Tear (fortress) with […]
Runemarks by Joanne Harris is fantasy with a strong base in Norse mythology. The book is set five hundred years after Ragnarók, the Norse battle bringing the end of the worlds. The general idea is that the Norse gods, known as the Æsir, lost the battle, and another took over, calling himself The Nameless, as […]
Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox is the sixth, and supposedly final, book in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series. At the end of the previous book, The Lost Colony, Artemis returns to Ireland three years after he left, though no time passed for him. (I wasn’t a huge fan of The Lost Colony; it just wasn’t […]
Soul Music, part of Terry Pratchett’s extensive Discworld series, explores two basic themes: universal music through the discovery of Music With Rocks In and the Grim Reaper’s existence. An aspiring musician buys a mythical guitar when his harp is squashed by a troll. He and his newfound friends are transformed into an instant band with […]
With this book the concepts of the The Wheel of Time world are becoming more apparent-the World of Dreams which affects the World of the Flesh also, the different ways the characters are connected to the One Power, lives relived (less focus on this in this 3rd book). Maybe this is why I think this […]
After Moiraine’s prophetic hint at the end of The Eye of the World, we’re pretty sure that Rand is The Dragon Reborn. In Robert Jordan’s The Great Hunt, the main overarching story arc starts to really get moving. When the book starts in Shienar, it is quickly apparent that Rand is the Dragon Reborn, the […]
