I read this so my teenage sister-in-law would have someone to talk to about it, and….meh? There were some good things about it; there were even times when I laughed or had feelings for the characters, but that didn’t happen until around page 240…..Now, that doesn’t mean this book is bad. I’m just not the intended audience. It’s a YA, which I typically have issues with anyway, and its’ about hell-beasts, and demons, and teenagers with feels, and I’m a 30-year-old woman who doesn’t have […]
This is a really long book, you guys
We primarily follow the story of three people in this book, with occasional points of view from others to further shed light on goings on. The first (and in my opinion, most interesting) of our protagonists is Kaladin Stormblessed, a surgeon’s son, turned army spearman turned slave. After numerous escape attempts, he ends up at the long-running war on the Shattered Plains, a desolate landscape made up of numerous rocky plateaus, requiring the fighting armies to have bridges to get across the chasms. Kaladin becomes […]
The Stand: Not a book you want to read when coming down with a cold…
So my first proper book I’ve read this year is The Stand. To be honest, I can’t believe I haven’t read it before. I tried about ten years ago, when I was probably early on in my undergrad, and… just couldn’t get through it. I think I got stuck on an early Larry chapter at some point (because let’s face it, he is The Worst) and just found I didn’t care enough about any of the characters to go on. This time, though, I was hooked. A […]
Forgetting history means we are doomed to repeat it. As we are now.
Two years ago, I reviewed The Buried Giant for CBR7, so I won’t hash out the summary and details for you, but will instead link to that review for a summary. What I’d like to do instead, since I’ve reviewed this book before, is to sink my teeth into the themes that made the book seem doubly relevant to me. The book is about a couple’s quest to visit their son’s village that gets wrapped up in a knight’s quest and a young boy’s prescience, […]
The Consequences of Being a Young Adult in a Violent World
Taking off from where The Ruins of Gorlan left off, The Burning Bridge returns with Will still apprenticed to Halt and learning that while he has natural talents, there’s a lot he still needs to learn. We learn very quickly that Morgarath is plotting revenge on Araluen and Will and Halt believe they’ve discovered his plans. Oh but they haven’t! Soon they realize they are being double-crossed which leads Will, Horace, and Gilan to Celtica to find out what’s going on. Trouble ensues and the […]
You have forgotten the face of your father.
It’s so funny, as I’m reading this series for the first time, to see the (very) polarizing opinions about each book. One person gives it up after the first thirty pages of the first book because it’s so fucking weird, the next wants to read all of them in a mad, passionate frenzy. One person thinks book two is the greatest (me), another thinks it’s boring as shit (an opinion I can’t understand). Yet another counts this here book as their favorite and reviles book four. […]