Fantasy Category
Book Review: Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian
Posted on June 2, 2013 Leave a Comment
Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian I have to praise Nazarian’s artistry when it comes to the written word. She seems to enjoy the language and it felt like she was painting with her words. But after about thirty pages, it started to very much feel like the canvas was growing much larger than necessary and […]
Book Review: Jhereg by Steven Brust
Posted on May 31, 2013 Leave a Comment
Jhereg by Steven Brust Guess this is what you’d call an oldie but a goodie. I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of Steven Brust until a few weeks ago, but he was recommended to me by a gaming friend of mine, and then another good friend jumped into the Twitter conversation to second the recommendation. […]
Audiobook Review: Naamah’s Curse by Jacqueline Carey
Posted on May 25, 2013 Leave a Comment
Naamah’s Curse by Jacqueline Carey Kushiel’s Curse continues the adventures of Moirin mac Fainche, now on a quest to find her lover, Bao, who has run off to determine his own fate after their Master Lo sacrificed himself to help Moirin unwittingly bring Bao back to life. Half of Moirin’s soul spark, or diadh-anam, now resides with […]
Book Review: The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
Posted on May 24, 2013 2 Comments
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson Huge fan of Brandon Sanderson here, which is why I was all over this book even though I knew it would take place outside of his Cosmere universe and be a little different from his usual epics. I admit I was mostly curious as to what reading a young adult […]
Book Review: City of Dragons by Robin Hobb
Posted on May 22, 2013 Leave a Comment
City of Dragons by Robin Hobb This is the third book of Robin Hobb’s Rain Wild Chronicles series and unfortunately also my least favorite installment so far. That’s not to say I didn’t like it, but I’m also sensing a definite slowdown compared to the first couple of novels (see my review of Dragon Keeper and […]
Werewolves on SPACE
Posted on May 17, 2013 Leave a Comment
Laura Vandervoort as Elena Michaesl Bitten was my first real introduction to urban fantasy and supernatural books. I fell in love with Kelley Armstrong‘s Women of the Otherworld series. Part of my love comes from national pride: both Armstrong and her main character Elena Michaels are Canadian and it’s always nice to find the familiar […]
Book Review: Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
Posted on May 17, 2013 12 Comments
Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch Wow, never have I snapped up and read all the currently available books in a series so quickly. With my enthusiasm waning for Harry Dresden in light of the new direction the Dresden Files series has taken in the last few books, someone else has recently dethroned him as […]
Book Review: The Remortal by Ramsey Isler
Posted on May 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
The Remortal by Ramsey Isler Immortality is boring. This is one of the aspects of stories about immortality that I enjoy, but not many of the stories I’ve read deal with this. Or rather, they don’t focus on the desire of an immortal to move on. I was attracted to The Remortal specifically because this […]
Book Review: Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines
Posted on May 1, 2013 Leave a Comment
Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines This was a book I had high hopes for, ever since finding out what it was about. At some point in our childhoods, I’m sure all of us bibliophiles have wished that the worlds in our favorite books were real, and wondered what it would be like to interact with […]
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