I don’t know whether it was the fault of the book, or because I’ve read this entire series back-to-back and fatigue has set in, but Assassin’s Fate really dragged for me. It’s taken me a full three weeks to finish this one, whereas it’s predecessors were devoured within days – some of this was due to being back at work which is seriously impinging on my reading time, but mostly it was down to becoming bored with what felt like the same bloody conversation being […]
“Come ride with me through the veins of history.”
Spoilers for Queen of the Tearling ahead! Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, I dove right into this book since I enjoyed the first one so much and I already owned it. (Yep, still kicking myself for not picking up the third!) Invasion of the Tearling deals with the consequences of Kelsea’s breaking of the treaty with the country of Mortmesne and the Red Queen. As the vastly superior Mort troops begin to invade the Tear Kelsea struggles with how to […]
In which I try to start getting caught up on all my long overdue reviews… yikes…
Soooo yeah. It happened. I started this CBR knowing that I NEEDED to stay on top of the reviews. That lasted until April. <sigh> #thestruggleisreal I really HAVE read many books since then, but the problem was reading on vacation where there was limited internet access and the inability to post anything. Things have derailed since that point. So today, I am attempting to get back on track a bit. Hopefully. SO! My last review was for A Darker Shade of Magic, the first book […]
This is what KA demands.
I couldn’t tell you whether it’s because I have finally given in to this journey, or whether it’s that the telling gets stronger as King’s writing matures, but riding this wave has become comfortable, easy, and more and more thrilling. I probably should (but choose not to) brace myself for the next book, Wolves of Calla (Book 5), because this one, The Wind Through the Keyhole (Book 4.5) was written eight years after the final book of the “The Dark Tower” series. I had a choice to […]
Down the Yellow-Brick Road
“Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stores fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.” – L. Frank Baum
Father Earth is Angry
The Obelisk Gate picks up where The Fifth Season left off and continues the harrowing tale of survival in The Stillness when a fifth season (the season of death) is upon the land. Now we learn the stakes are higher than just survival. An ancient war has been brewing in the background for so long that not all the players are even aware one is occurring. The fifth season has fully gripped the land. Comms band together for mutual support and weaker comms fall, to […]