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 […]
After the unfortunate Spider-Man 3, Sony Pictures commissioned two scripts. One for a fourth film, and another for a reboot of the series. They ended up choosing to go the reboot route over continuing where Spider-Man 3 left off. The Amazing Spider-Man is an attempt to return to the Spider-Man of the comics, complete with […]
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 […]
Infernal, the ninth book of F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack series, is pretty dark. It’s tricky to go into detail without major plot spoilers, so let’s just say being a lightning rod for encounters with the Otherness is hazardous to those around you. Infernal breaks the usual formula of “fix it” jobs with a larger […]
Jack: Secret Histories, Jack: Secret Circles and Jack: Secret Vengeance comprise F. Paul Wilson’s YA trilogy about the younger years of Repairman Jack. My introduction to the character was through this spin-off series (via Secret Histories), which led me to pick up Legacies and get into the main story. Now that the last two books […]
Yesterday morning, Brandon Sanderson tweeted that he had finished the draft of A Memory of Light, the fourteenth and final book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series. He estimates that the revision period should be six months, so the book is likely to be released in the fall of 2012, though Tor has not […]
Warner Brothers has posted the announcement trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to their YouTube channel, as of December 19th. The film, slated to be released on December 14, 2012, will be the first of the two movies planned to tell the story from Tolkien’s The Hobbit, along with some additional material from other […]
The Magic Engineer is, possibly, my favorite of the Recluce books I have read so far. Like the rest of the books in the series, it’s set in a different age, with different characters and different political factions. The Chaos wizards of Fairhaven still have a hegemony extending across most of Candar, and they’re still […]
Three hundred years after the events in the original Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson’s The Alloy of Law gives a glimpse of what the world of Scadrial has become. The magic is the same, though it has evolved a little, with the addition of a couple new metals. The thriving city of Elendel now has trains […]
