The third book in the series, we get more information and insight from our semi-adventurers, as well as from some new characters. Newly added to our cast is Elora, an experienced Rogue, along with a priest of Grumble and Silas, a clerk in the Hall of Adventurers. While the majority of the story stays with our main group, we do see what is going on with the others as well. There are some heavy themes in this story, and some heavy consequences. We delve […]
The review I forgot to write
I feel kind of bad that I’m not doing justice to this book in this review, purely because I read it in July and I’m trying to write the review in December. I wrote the reviews of the first and third books close to when I finished them, but this one slipped by. I think I was in a rush to get to the next one, or something. Oops. After escaping their home kingdom, our group of Adventurers moves on in search of, well, something. […]
This one was my gateway drug
This was the first Drew Hayes book I read (well, listened to) and it’s the one that got me hooked. Honestly, going in I didn’t have very high expectations. I just scrolled through my library options and tried to pick something that wouldn’t waste my time, and even if it did, I could move on. I was pleasantly surprised! I don’t play D&D (Dungeons & Dragons for the less nerdy), but I do have passing knowledge of some of the elements. Not having that base […]
Accio Cannonball
Cannonball! Reading the Harry Potter series this time felt different than past times. I’m several years older than I was last time I read them, and this time I was reading them not just for fun, but to review for CBR (it makes a difference, I’ve found. . .). It’s also a time in American history when reading about the fight against the Death Eaters and their focus on purebloods is a little more uncomfortable than it has been in the past (I am not […]
Class-war evil supernatural black fungus
I raced through Rivers of London: Black Mould when I brought it home from the library (pro tip: if a book is brand new and it’s not on the shelves but it’s definitely in the catalog, ask your librarian to check the back room! maybe it hasn’t even been shelved yet!), but honestly it didn’t make much more of an impact on me other than to keep moving the Rivers of London universe forward for me. Not that that isn’t of value, because of course […]
Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a treat Good Omens is. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will also tell you how much of a treat it is. They will tell you in their introduction and their afterward how much they wrote it for the love of it […]
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