[Sidenote: This book is only $1.99 right now!] I always love it when a fun book falls on a cannonball milestone. Although, I have been having a pretty good reading year in terms of quality, so maybe not too surprising. I heard of this book when it first came out in 2017 and I was fairly sure I was going to love it, so I was saving it as a comfort read during a bad week. I should really do that more often because it […]
I waited way too long to read this.
Well, it’s no wonder this is the book that propelled her to the bestseller list. It feels like one of those books that just falls out of the author’s pen (or keyboard, or whatever), practically telling itself. (Of course, I know that doesn’t really happen. But sometimes a story finds the exact right author at the exact right time, and it feels inevitable and effortless, even if lots of work behind the scenes is actually making it look that way.) If you were to try […]
“Night wasn’t so much falling as sharpening its claws.”
As with almost every book in this series, I liked it better this time. I’ve said this before, but there are advantages to reading the hard copies of the books, as much as I love the audio versions with James Marsters. And one of those advantages is it just takes so much less time to read a physical book, and stuff that you’re not enjoying either goes faster or you can skip it outright. I remember when I read this book the first time it […]
Another great entry in the delightfully weird and difficult to categorise Craft Sequence.
Like the Terra Ignota Series, I was first Introduced to Max Gladstone’s Craft Sequence novels via The Hugo Awards. And like Terra Ignota, I’m going to start my book reviews with a book that sits right in the middle of the series, with book six. While The Ruin of Angels is told from an increasing number of viewpoints as it progresses, the narrative can be split into roughly two branches. The first branch follows Kai Pohala, who was the protagonist of a previous Craft book, […]
Who let me start on another fantasy series?
I really liked the first in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series, The Way of Kings, so of course I went all in and requested the second from the library before I was even finished the first. I almost had regrets – I have a pile of Christmas book exchange books waiting for me, each of them so tempting. But, the book came quickly, I already owe $25 in library fines, and so I got started. At the end of the first book, the stage was […]
This was a book but it wasn’t a story.
Normally in my WOT reviews I list things that actually happened (things of significance) in these books so as to illustrate how much space was taken up by non-essential real estate. How much Jordan veered from the idea of ‘the narrative’ as a concept. Quite literally, as of this book, Jordan lost the plot entirely. Nothing. Happens. In. This. Book. And my copy has 822 pages of text, not including the glossary and maps. There is infinitesimal movement on all fronts. Mostly the characters just […]
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