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 […]
Finally Fantastic Art
Final Fantasy XV was a video game that was almost a decade in the making. Initially planned by Square as Final Fantasy Versus XIII back in 2007/2008 over time it was adapted and reworked to become the first game in the long running series for the new generation of consoles in 2016. As with any game in this series it had it’s fans and those who hate it because it changed everything again. People should really get to used to that as no two games […]
Some giants need slaying
I’ve been struggling to make my way through a novel and decided to take a sideways read. Influenced by an article on Pajiba I picked up I Kill Giants, the graphic novel by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura. I’m a fan of the medium and thought it was worth a read without knowing the plot beyond that described in the article. A simple way to describe this is that it’s about a teenage girl (Barbara Thorson) who seems isolated and ostracised from the world around […]
Paying the Price of Magic
I missed out on Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books during my teenage years which is when I suspect a lot of people find these books with their magical horses (known as Companions) and tales of growing up and finding out about the world. I’ve been making up for it though since the books have been ending up neatly packaged into trilogies on Kindle over the past couple of years. This particular trilogy is interesting because it features a protagonist who is mentioned very early on in […]
Everything you could ever want to know about welding
Andy Weir hit the headlines with his first novel The Martian, a tale of early exploratory missions to Mars going just a bit wrong, leading to a movie featuring Matt Damon and some potatoes (you may have found it hard to spot the difference). It was always going to be interesting to see how he followed that up, and the answer was to stick to a near-future SF novel with a decent grounding in plausible “what if” science. Artemis is set on humankind’s first lunar […]
In the Bleak Midwinter
My book reading year ends, and starts with, this classic children’s novel by Susan Cooper. The second book in the series of the same name is a seasonally appropriate touchstone being set between the winter solstice and twelfth night and since I first read it as a child is a book I return to most years at this time. The book is the tale of the youngest son in a large family turning eleven and finding out that he is the last of the “Old […]
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