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The Series That Wants to Do It All. With Footnotes

The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, #1) by Jenn Lyons

The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons, #2) by Jenn Lyons

The Memory of Souls (A Chorus of Dragons, #3) by Jenn Lyons

The House of Always (A Chorus of Dragons, #4) by Jenn Lyons

The Discord of Gods (A Chorus of Dragons, #5) by Jenn Lyons

July 10, 2022 by LittlePlat 5 Comments

Well, this is ambitious of me, but I’m going to try and review an entire five-book series all in one go. I was prompted to do this earlier this week when I saw there had been another update on The Winds of Winter that did not include a hint of a release date. We’ve gone through about ten years of this, and I understand that now some people are a bit shy when it comes to epic fantasy series. Well, not to worry: A […]

Stakes Get Higher and the Empire Gets More Evil

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

February 15, 2020 by Jenny S Leave a Comment

I read, An Ember in the Ashes, the first book of Sabaa Tahir’s fantasy series while on vacation in January and it hit all my fantasy sweet spots. It was nice to know that I had two more books to go before I caught up and had to wait like everybody else for Book 4. A Torch Against the Night picks up right where the first book left off—with Laia and Elias trying to escape the city of Serra through underground tunnels with the goal […]

Heroes Aren’t Born, They’re Made

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

January 15, 2020 by Jenny S 2 Comments

There’s nothing better than starting a book that you don’t know much about and don’t have any expectations for, only to discover that it’s really good and that there are two more out there and a final fourth in the works. Last week, I loaded a bunch of library books on my kindle to read on vacation and this one, Ember in the Ashes, caught my eye both because it was the first book in a fantasy series and it was by a woman of color, […]

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