Cannonball Read 18

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An Inexplicable Hatred of Raisins

Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

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Score again for shelf-browsing time burning selection from the local library! I had a few minutes to spare, had to stop by the local library to pick something else up, went shelf-browsing and found this: Ink & Sigil. This was fantasy fun at its best, not only because of the characters, mechanics of the magic, and intrigue of the plot, but also because of the reasonably integrated exploration of a real world serious problem, in this case human trafficking. Let’s back up a sec to […]

It’s the end of the world as we know it

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Time for the final book in Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid Chronicles (and obviously not the place to start the series!). This contemporary urban fantasy series has evolved from it’s initial roots as “2000 year old druid who looks like a twenty-something slacker hangs out in Arizona” to “every mythos is true and most of them are out to kill you or at least badly mess up your day”. Following the earlier books we’re now at the point where our protagonist has to face up to […]

Between Thor: Ragnarok and Infinity Wars, I Don’t Have Much Patience for Thor as an Evil Villain

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I know that quite a few urban fantasy series take a few books to truly find their feet, The Dresden Files being one of the most prominent examples of “stick with it for at least three books, and it will get good.” Books 1 and 2 of this series were fine, though some characters were rather weak, and the main character seemed to have some issues with considering consequences intelligently. However, rather than slowly improving as a series, this novel is actually my least favorite […]

So Far So Good

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I admit, a part of me was a bit concerned when the last novel had evil witches as side kicks to the main villain, and I saw that this novel would have evil witches as the main villains.  I thought The Dresden Files overdid it with the evil vampires in the early novels, and I was bit worried that using witches as the villains could easily give the series a slightly sexist undertone if the novels portray women magic users as evil witches while the […]

Wacky Neighbor, Loyal Dog, and Please Make the Potential Love Interest Go Away

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thewheelbarrow’s review of the last novel of this series reminded me that I had meant to check this out a long time ago when a few people reviewed the first in the series.  Atticus Sullivan runs a new age bookstore and tea shop in Tempe, Arizona and looks like he is around 21 years old.  In reality, he is a 2,100 year old druid and has been on the run from one man, the Celtic god of love, for about 2,000 of those years.  Atticus […]

A Finale and two novellas

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            I really love the Iron Druid Chronicles and Scourged is a great finale.  I’m hard pressed to think of many other series wherein we see so much growth in the main character.  I find this especially true given the series is 9 books long plus several novellas and a collection of short stories.  It seems as though it would be very easy to become formulaic and keep the main character exactly the same but Kevin Hearne does not do […]



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