What a silly book. At this point I think I’ve given up expecting to see anything new from Rick Riordan, and yet I’m going to keep reading his books, so I think I shall make a vow to not talk about how repetitive they are, and how he just keeps doing the same thing over and over again with variations. After that sentence I mean. In the future I shall call this The Riordan Factor and link back to this review as an explanation. It […]
The witches deserved a better story
Is it just me or are mediocre books the hardest to review? This book was a perfectly fine way to spend a few evenings, but it didn’t leave a lasting impression. I guess based on the premise I expected it to be darker and more sinister. Instead, I got a bit of witch fluff. Connie Goodwin is a grad student at Harvard studying history. She’s especially interested in the Salem witch trials. Plot machinations make it so she has to go stay at her family’s […]
Spectacularly failing to complete a half cannonball
“The Blood Mirror” is review number 17, not nearly where I had hoped to be this time of year. Once I accepted I would not be reaching my half cannonball goal I decided to fail spectacularly and get a long book off my plate to make a fresh attempt in 2017. The Lightbringer series are hefty books. “The Blood Mirror” clocks in at 704 pages. While only reviewing 17 books I actually read 24 this past year. Clearly writing the reviews is where I’m falling […]
This book left me at a loss for words.
What an absolutely odd book. This was assigned for my lit class which, as I’ve mentioned before, I was mostly taking as an elective to force me to read things I wouldn’t normally. And well, let’s just say that I would never in my entire life have read this normally. It’s a classic, so it feels odd to summarize, but I can’t be the only one late to the game – an ethereal unicorn goes looking for other unicorns, winds up captured, picks up a […]
Imagine a world where Robert Jordan knew how to write women.
This is the first Wheel of Time book I haven’t enjoyed more than the last. I was hoping the loss of narrative control I’d been warned about would start later for me than book five. It varies from person to person, from all the reviews I’ve read; some people note a decline starting with this one, others as late as eight, some never (though those are rare, at least in my friends’ GR reviews). Even though I ended up enjoying this book more than I […]
Strangeness with Magic, Dragons, and a Quarkbeast
I read Jasper Fford’s Tuesday Next series, and I liked it for a while. I got bored after about book 4. So when I saw a YA fantasy novel by the same author, I wanted to try it out. The Last Dragonslayer was mostly what I expected, and also a little not. What defines Fford’s writing for me is a sense of slightly off-kilter in an otherwise normal story, and that is totally here. The normal is as follows: 15 year old indentured servant Jennifer […]
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