For some reason, I’d been putting off reading Robin Hobb’s Soldier Son trilogy. Partly, I think, because it hadn’t received the wholly glowing reviews of her other works on Goodreads, and partly because I’d been so sucked in to the worlds of Fitz and the Fool and the Elderlings, and didn’t think that stories set elsewhere would satisfy me. It wasn’t until I was bemoaning the fact that I still hadn’t got my hands on the latest Fitz trilogy that I decided to give The […]
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
Sixteen years have passed since the events of Predator’s Gold and Anchorage is no longer on the move, having settled down at the edge of Vineland. Living on Anchorage-in-Vineland are Freya, Caul, Tom and Hester…and Wren, the baby that Hester was carrying who is now a bored 15 year old, longing for excitement. When a charming pirate – one of Caul’s old crew – turns up in Anchorage-in-Vineland looking for a valuable object, Wren seizes her chance for an adventure only for it to go […]
For a legendary assassin, she spends a whole lot of time NOT killing people
3.5 stars I put off reading this for the longest time, mainly because I figured I’d have to go back and read the first one, Throne of Glass, again to remember what happened, what with having read that way back in early 2013. But then the lovely Narfna tipped me off about this website, which allowed me to quickly recap all the stuff I only vaguely remembered, and I no longer had an excuse not to read it and it fit into my Monthly Keyword […]
Five novellas smooshed together. Still not sure about this author or this series.
The Assassin’s Blade is a compilation of five interrelated novellas that take place about a year before the first book in this series, Throne of Glass. Each one can be read separately, but work best together, showing how the infamous assassin Celaena Sardothien went from being rich, spoiled and deadly, to being a slave in the salt mines of Endovier. These five novellas go a long way towards rectifying one of the main complaints I had with that first book, namely that we were shown […]
Too long, too slow, and Fitz is a butt.
Things I did not expect: 1. That koalas, cute though they may be, are actually incredibly gross animals who basically feed their babies poo, and who are so dumb they can’t even recognize a eucalyptus leaf when it’s removed from a branch and offered to them. 2. The Spanish Inquisition. 3. To three-star most of this series. This is one of those series (and authors) people have been recommending to me for yearrrrs now. And many of them have done so while telling me it’s […]
Secret origins of fiendish pony villains
Last month, I attended a lovely library talk about women in comics. Christina Rice, a local librarian and comics writer, talked about her work on My Little Pony comics. I’ve always been a fan of My Little Pony, but hadn’t really watched the new show. To sate my curiosity, I picked up the My Fiendship is Magic volume. These five comics explore the secret origins of five pony villains. It was interesting to see kingdoms outside Equestria, the main pony land, told from the various POVs. Beware, […]
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