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By Hook or by Crook
All children, except one, grow up. This, however, is a review of a book and not a story of my life, so we’ll be moving on now. The idea of Peter Pan is something that just about anyone can recite from memory. There’s a boy who will remain a boy forever who lives upon an exciting island far in the sky just past the second star to the right where there are fairies, pirates, indians, mermaids, and an adventure around every corner. Not only can […]
CB VI #4: The Vampire Diaires: The Salvation vol. 2
Obligatory excuse about Amazon Kindle Daily Deals here. Y’all are in luck, though. I bought 2, but I accidentally read the second one first and now I have zero desire to read the first. My bad, your gain. I just … look, guys, I’m a sucker for the series. It’s my ultimate guilty pleasure show. And it’s GREAT if you wanna play the mustache drinking game. So at least you got something out of this “review”. You’re welcome. Primary takeaway: the show is way better […]
A beautiful way to start my reading year
What a lovely way to start my new reading year. First of all, I want to thank Jen K for this lovely book. She gave it to me as part of the Cannonball Read gift exchange, and as I was fairly sure I wasn’t going to be able to do it justice when I was hurrying through books at the end of December to finish my triple Cannonball, I decided that it would be my first book of 2014. As it turns out, due to me getting ill over […]
Don’t Turn Your Back!
If anyone can come up with a better title feel free. It was much easier when the title was the name of the book! I am assuming that anyone reading this review knows well of Harry Dresden as this is book 11, but I hate to be exclusive, so anyone reading this who doesn’t I shall nutshell it for you: PI Wizard working in modern-day chicago fighting many life and world threatening supernatural foes; wisecracking hero with big heart, think Indiana Jones has a child […]
On Fantasy Giants, Magic Systems, and Cool Metatextual Stuff
Fantasy, like few other genres of popular culture, is the land of giants. Metaphorical ones, of course, but I can’t think of many more artistic endeavors where the playing field is dominated by a mere few authors. One only has to pick up any Terry Brooks novel, for instance, to see the long shadows cast by JRR Tolkien (Classic Fantasy Hero’s Journey) and CS Lewis (People Magically Transported to a Strange Place). More recently, JK Rowling (Manichaean Battle with Scholastic Backdrop) and George RR Martin […]