Everybody loves the Dresden Files. It’s so popular that the 15th book in the series is coming out sometime this year. And I can see why. Jim Butcher certainly knows his craft: story, pacing, characters, all the elements are working together. It’s a fun book. It’s a quick read, never boring. It’s good. Really. I just didn’t love it. You know what I mean? Harry Dresden is everything you could want in a hero, he’s perfectly imperfect. He’s a man with a solid philosophy of what […]
I am the Walrus.
You have no frame of reference here, Robyn. You’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know. . .
So British, you can’t open the book unless the kettle is on
The Dark is Rising sequence is the story of four children, the three Drew children – Barney, Jane, & Simon, and Will Stanton. Will is important because he is an Old One, a member of a race of beings who have magical powers and can move through time. The Drew children are important precisely because they are not magical beings. They are ordinary human children. The sequence is five books long: Over Sea, Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, and Silver […]
Let it go, let it go . . . Oh, Elsa, I wish you were real.
I apologize for the Frozen reference (except that I don’t). “Let it go,” except in a different context, is really the main theme of this book. And it’s not my fault that Frozen has now co-opted that phrase for all time (point of interest: I am not yet sick of the song or the movie because I have carefully limited my exposure, and also I don’t have any children). Faerie After is the final book in the Bones of Faerie trilogy. This review will probably not […]
This is not Zaphod’s ship, but it’s still pretty cool
This is one of those sci-fi/fantasy as social commentary stories that initially had me rolling my eyes (“Oh, racism is BAD? You don’t say!”), but won me over by the strength of its characters. There are three races on whatever planet is hosting the story. The indigo, who are (duh) blue, the gulden, who are gold, and the albinos. The indigo are a supremely matriarchal society – only females can inherit land, grandmothers arrange marriages for their granddaughters, and the men just marry who they’re […]
I got those faerie winter blues.
I liked this one better than Bones of Faerie, but I still had some issues with it. And to be fair, while there was some improvement on some of the things that bugged me from #1, the main reason I enjoyed this one more than the first was that it allowed for more time to be spent in this world and with these characters. (If you’ll recall, my biggest issue with the first book was that it was too short.) Faerie Winter picks up about […]