This is my favorite thing Riordan has written in years. I think partially I liked it so much because I had such trouble with the first two books in this series, enough that I was almost 100% sure I would stop reading his books after this series was through. I think I’m going to reevaluate that decision based on how much I enjoyed reading The Burning Maze. We’ll see. But aside from liking it simply because it was better than the first two is not […]
How he trained his dragon
Captain Will Laurence has spent his life in the Navy, and expects it to continue that way. However, being currently embroiled in the Napoleonic Wars, that life soon comes to an end – but not through death. Instead, having captured a French ship, Captain Laurence’s ship takes its cargo as a prize…a large dragon’s egg, whose inhabitant decides upon hatching that Captain Laurence will do nicely for a handler. In this alternate history, dragons that aren’t paired with handlers tend to go feral, therefore losing […]
Avatar + Arabian Nights
I got this book from my Kindle Unlimited subscription. It is marked as being for grades 8 and up. In The Hundreth Queen, Kalinda is an 18 year old girl growing up in a temple of sisters. She’s had fevers all of her life, which the healer in the temple “cures” them by giving her a daily tonic. The temple is visited by the rajah, the ruler in the community who has 99 wives. He chooses Kalinda to be his 100th. It is necessary for […]
Cooking with Magic
I was in the local bookstore to pick something up, and what I was looking for wasn’t there. I browsed around a little since I had a 20% off coupon, and I saw this: The Wizard’s Cookbook. I made an impulse purchase. I regret nothing. This is a cookbook, but all the recipes are based on characters from modern fantasy literature and include everything from the expected Harry Potter and Wizard of Oz to the equally cool but less expected Magica DeSpell, Link, Asterix and […]
Define Skeeve
The best thing about this book was that when I got home from picking it up from the library and opened it, I discovered that on the inner title page was the following: I don’t think I’ve ever actually considered “losing” a library book on purpose before. About a year or so ago, I read one of the later additions to this series and I enjoyed it, so I decided to see how the whole thing got started. Myth Adventures One is a composite of […]
I Feel so Damned Spoilt Reading These
So I spent my last review squealing all over Mark Lawrence’s Red Sister, which I thought was some of the best fantasy I had read all year. Well, the universe must be spoiling me or something, because Josiah Bancroft’s books run in at a close second! I’ll be reviewing them both together, so there will be very, very mild spoilers for the first book. I’ll try not to do too much damage, but be warned. I’ve always enjoyed the more weird and wonderful entries […]
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