Brandon Sanderson, man, it’s like he tried with this series to just see what would happen if you tried to answer some of the genre-bending questions leftover from Mistborn. So, like, ok, what would the world be like a few hundred years later? Oh, a mix of the Wild West and Victorian England? Well, that’s pretty cool. Bullets and allomancy is a cool combination….kind of in now, that’s neat. Cockney chicanery and US Marshall tropes….cool cool. How about three books in, we jump right back […]
Lies, Conspiracies, And Magic
It’s for these reasons, as well as the increased confidence Butcher shows in the writing that Summer Knight is one of my favorite in the series, (the rest of which are constantly shifting in rank as they are reread). As a person who likes to start a series in the beginning, it’s startling to consider that this book is probably the best place to enter the Dresden Files series of books if you want a delicious serving of adventure without the early-days problems that dog […]
Yer the Chosen One Harry
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: a book drastically different from the movie and my penultimate Harry Potter review for CBR9. Half Blood Prince is one of my least favorite movies in the series, despite all the balls it puts in motion, and even though I re-watched it in preparation of my reading I found myself zoning out in places. Maybe sloughing through 27 hours of (the audiobook) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix gave me a new appreciation for the zippy pacing of the comparatively short 17 hour HPB. Spoilers […]
Robin Hobb never fails to deliver
For some reason, I’d been putting off reading Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son trilogy. Partly, I think, because it hadn’t received the wholly glowing reviews of her other works on Goodreads, and partly because I’d been so sucked in to the worlds of Fitz and the Fool and the Elderlings, and didn’t think that stories set elsewhere would satisfy me. It wasn’t until I was bemoaning the fact that I still hadn’t got my hands on the latest Fitz trilogy that I decided to give The […]
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
Sixteen years have passed since the events of Predator’s Gold and Anchorage is no longer on the move, having settled down at the edge of Vineland. Living on Anchorage-in-Vineland are Freya, Caul, Tom and Hester…and Wren, the baby that Hester was carrying who is now a bored 15 year old, longing for excitement. When a charming pirate – one of Caul’s old crew – turns up in Anchorage-in-Vineland looking for a valuable object, Wren seizes her chance for an adventure only for it to go […]
Western Weird and Wild
I really like the western genre, and the genre subdivision weird western, so when MsWas sent an email offering this collection of short stories I jumped on it. This book has been on my radar for a while, and I was super excited to read it. Overall, I quite liked it and found it to be a pretty good collection. Not all stories fell into my personal preference, but they were mostly fairly enjoyable. I wasn’t as fond of the stories with a science fiction […]