The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Bingo: No Money (borrowed from my dad) This year, I was only going to review books I’d never read before, but a few months back another Cannonballer reviewed the entire Dark is Rising series and it made me nostalgic for these books, which I adored as a kid. Plus, I’d never read the final book in the series so I thought I might finally get around to it (I also tried to read the first in the series–The Dark is Rising is the second–but couldn’t […]
Wolf's Bane by Kelley Armstrong
Wolf's Curse by Kelley Armstrong
I loved Kelley Armstrong’s Women of the Otherworld series – I think I had read some of the Sookie Stackhouse novels when I read this one but while I lost interest in Sookie, I kept coming back to Armstrong’s diverse (from a magical power perspective) cast of characters. Now, I may mostly talk about Toby Daye and Kate Daniels, but that doesn’t mean I have forgotten about the Otherworld. These were really my starter series that got me interested in other women written urban fantasy […]
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
I read (and enjoyed) Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy last (Ancillary Justice, the first was particularly amazing) so I was surprised to see she had written a fantasy novel. I enjoy both genres, and I know it isn’t unheard of for authors to switch between genres, but the Radch trilogy had AI and space travel … so definitely what I would consider on the harder side of sci-fi. The novel’s description was a bit vague so I was very pleasantly surprised when I realized that […]
The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
Katherine Addison might just have made my auto-pre-order list. I loved The Goblin Emperor, and she did it again with her most recent book which is effectively Sherlock Holmes fan-fiction. The cool thing about The Angel of the Crows is how it sets things up to be kind of recognizable but then drops a detail or line that makes it really clear which story you’re in and puts things recently mentioned in new and often interesting perspectives. The world of the story is a Victorian […]
Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski
Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the second collection of short stories based on the character of Geralt of Rivia. He’s a Witcher, someone who wanders the land and fights monsters for pay. Like a mercenary for fantastical creatures. They’ve made several video games about the character and the world and now a Netflix series. I’ve been avoiding spoilers but it’s inevitable that I’d hear bits and pieces especially as I finished this collection and had to […]
You Don’t Want a Dragon! by Ame Dyckman
Did no one learn about exotic pets from You Don’t Want a Unicorn? Guess not! As the young child of that book is back and now, as you probably guessed from the title, You Don’t Want a Dragon! has wished for a pet dragon. And of course, gets it. But (like unicorns) it is not all fun and games. There is a lot of less than pleasant chores and events that take place This book is pure Ame Dyckman, therefore, how bad can it be? […]
