The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturns by Neil Gaiman
I should start this review by saying that I started this book but then some books came off of hold from the library so I put it down to read my books on hold. It took me a bit to get back into the book and what was happening but once I did I quickly sunk into the story’s universe. Sandman is a comic book series that launched Neil Gaiman into the star writer he is today. It tells the story of Morpheus, King of […]
The Price of Valor: Book Three of The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler
As this is the third book in the series, perhaps you should check out my review of the first book The Thousand Names: Book One of the Shadow Campaigns, which is predominantly about a military campaign. The second book, The Shadow Throne, switches gears and is about political intrigue and power struggles. This third book, The Price of Valor, is combination of both and an excellent continuation of the series. Note about the cover art of the books: I originally found them off putting as […]
No Country for Old Gnomes: The Tales of Pell by Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne
Last year Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne released, and I reviewed, Kill the Farm Boy: The Tales of Pell. It was a hysterical twisting of fantasy tropes that had my husband and I literally laughing out loud while reading. This year they put out another book set in Pell, No Country for Old Gnomes. The nifty thing about these two books is they are standalone. You do not need to have read Kill the Farm Boy to read No Country for Old Gnomes, this is not […]
The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft
I was so very, very excited, waiting for this book to come out! Unfortunately, I’m ashamed to say I got snowed under with work. I loved the previous two books in Josiah Bancroft’s Books of Babel series. I don’t think I had ever come across an author who had such a rich, yet witty, literary style. Even better was that he was able to pair it with an unusually intriguingly built world and fantastic character progression. I’m happy to say that this entry lived up […]
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
Times up for death. He’s been handed his notice and he now has a little hourglass counting down the days till he will go. So he does what anyone might do, he quits his job and decides to go traveling. He travels exactly to where miss Flitworth needs a farmhand on her lonely farm. So he becomes a harvester. Meanwhile all the life that was supposed to run out, lingers on in the world causing all sorts of problems; especially for one Windle Poons who […]
The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch
Ben Aaronovitch takes a detour from London in his latest urban fantasy novella, but doesn’t really go too far afield. In The October Man we take a break from the adventures of Peter Grant in London to see what is happening elsewhere in the world of magical policing. We arrive in Germany to enjoy an adventure with Peter’s counterpart Tobias (Tobi) Winter, another young copper who turned out to have a bit of a gift with magic. Tobi is assigned to work a case in […]
