I admit, a part of me was a bit concerned when the last novel had evil witches as side kicks to the main villain, and I saw that this novel would have evil witches as the main villains. I thought The Dresden Files overdid it with the evil vampires in the early novels, and I was bit worried that using witches as the villains could easily give the series a slightly sexist undertone if the novels portray women magic users as evil witches while the […]
Wacky Neighbor, Loyal Dog, and Please Make the Potential Love Interest Go Away
thewheelbarrow’s review of the last novel of this series reminded me that I had meant to check this out a long time ago when a few people reviewed the first in the series. Atticus Sullivan runs a new age bookstore and tea shop in Tempe, Arizona and looks like he is around 21 years old. In reality, he is a 2,100 year old druid and has been on the run from one man, the Celtic god of love, for about 2,000 of those years. Atticus […]
How much wood would a druid chuck if a druid could chuck wood?
Since Staked is the 8th book in the Iron Druid Chronicles, don’t start here. High level overview of the story: Atticus O’Sullivan is a Druid who has spent the last 2,000 years laying low from the Celtic gods as well as the vampires who wiped out all the Druids for some unknown reason. By the time the reader reaches Staked, Atticus isn’t the only Druid walking the earth, and he’s also very firmly on the radar of ALL THE GODS EVERYWHERE. (This is what happens […]
If only the hammer were his…
This is actually book 3 in the Iron Druid Chronicles. I read (listened, the only way to do IDC) the first two in the series 2 years ago. I started this one, got half an hour in, got mad, and set it aside. Fast forward two years to all of a sudden having over quadruple my old commute time, because Little Beth Ellen’s child care hasn’t switched yet. Once it has my commute will only be triple the old time. That’ll be nice. Anywho, as […]
Yes, I Would Like A Sexy, Witty Druid with a Talking Wolfhound, Please
If I ever got into the deity business, I’d want to be the lesser goddess of good timing and curating – like, your iPod would always be ready with the perfect song to score your life moments or I would sneak into your bedroom at night and if you left me bookmarks and/or teeth under your pillow, I’d deliver a book perfectly curated for your tastes. I would also indirectly use my divine intervention by guiding the Barnes and Nobles workers’ staff picks. Alas, I […]
Welcome to the new Star Wars expanded universe.
If this is what the new Star Wars canon is going to look like, sign me up. Of course, I’m sort of being facetious, because Kevin Hearne isn’t going to be writing all of those books, and he’s largely why this book works as well as it does. Heir to the Jedi is the third book in the Empire and Rebellion series, but because this one was published after Disney bought Star Wars, it’s the only one that is still considered canon. I have no idea […]