It seems this is the year for both of Jim Butcher’s fantasy series to come full circle. First it was Turn Coat, wrapping up the first half of the Dresden Files, and now it is First Lord’s Fury resolving the story of Tavi of Calderon. Codex Alera began with a young shepherd boy losing his [...]
Lover Unbound garnered an instant impression from me on ending it. It was a hard journey, probably the hardest book to read of the series for me. I thought Ward had wrung out of me all the rough emotions I could possibly feel with Zsadist’s book (Lover Awakened), but oh, how wrong I was. My [...]
[This is a review of the 70th Anniversary Edition, not so much of THE HOBBIT itself.I've reviewed the book proper elsewhere, and would rather focus on the actual edition itself.]
THE HOBBIT is one of those few books that I have felt justified to buy multiple copies over the years.It is a book I have read [...]
Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World” is both one of the best science fiction books and one of the most brilliant pieces of satire ever written. BNW takes place on a future Earth where human beings are mass-produced and conditioned for lives in a rigid caste system. As the story progresses, we learn some of [...]
Not as good as some of her earlier series; not much of a page-turner and seems like a slow-start.While I realize there is a second book being released in May, the book should still stand on it’s own and it doesn’t.There is no resolution, no anticipation of the next part of the story.The ending of [...]
