Category Six Adversarial Manifestation. That’s what it’s called when Lucifer Morningstar – also known as the Devil, the Prince of Darkness or Satan – shows up at your apartment brewing you are really nice cup of fair trade coffee. So, our hero Billy is a struggling writer, living in Queens, working in a sandwich shop, recently dumped by his girlfriend and well…he’s a bit of a loser. He wakes up one morning with the Devil in his apartment, brewing a really awesome cup of […]
Trilogy Tour #6 – Acacia #2
Nine years have passed since the Akarans took back their empire from the Mein. Queen Corinn rules the land with an iron fist, while her surviving siblings, Mena and Dariel, cautiously support her. Mena has been tasked with defeating the last of the foulthings, beasts created as a side product of the ancient magic that was unleashed to defeat the Meinish army. Dariel is chosen by Corinn to travel across the sea to the Other Lands to finally meet the Lothun Aklun, who supply the […]
Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars
Thank goodness for the Cannonball Book Exchange! I received this wondrous book from the lovely Allibaba77 who not only sent me books, but chocolate as well. This book has been on my radar for years. I added it to my To-Read list way back in the spring of 2012. I kept looking for it at my library, but the waitlist was simply insane. At my library if there is a waitlist you can be assured the book is worth your time, and my oh my, […]
“No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.”
An infrequent reader of comics and graphic novels, I was intrigued by the Saga series, mainly because of the glowing reviews from Malin. It promised several of the most fun genre conventions: epic war, forbidden romance between opposite sides of battle lines, mercenary assassins, imaginative new alien species, and MAGIC! Our narrator is Hazel, child of Alana and Marko, the forbidden lovers. So far, the narration has been retrospective, but still not completely linear. We enter in the middle of Alana and Marko on the […]
#10 – The Emperor’s Soul: Quick and quite delightful!
The emperor is not dead, but he is certainly not alive. In order to stay in power, Gaotona and the other four Arbiters must resurrect their emperor, bring back his mind and his memories. To do so, they enlist the help of Shai, a Forger – a criminal and a thief – to Forge the emperor a new soul. This was a fantastic novella. It was my first Brandon Sanderson book, and I very much enjoyed it. Shai and Gaotona are both great characters – […]
Twilight for Adults
“If there really were vampires, what would they do for a living?” That is a question that this book became the unexpected answer to, according to the author on her blog. As for me, although I’ve read that Harkness hasn’t read the popular YA series, I’d dare say this book could be considered a Twilight for adults. Compliment? Or criticism? You decide. But at its simplest, there are vampires, witches, and daemons. (If you’re not sure what a daemon is…think borderline insane, ADHD, wildly creative […]