Last year, I read the Old Man’s War series by John Scalzi, and struggled to put together reviews for the latter books. After awhile, there really isn’t much to say when every book in a series is as consistently good and enthralling as the ones that preceded it. So, with The Dresden Files (which I plan on reading in its entirety), I’m just going to throw a bunch of reviews into a few posts. Here are the first couple: Fool Moon (Book 2) – 4 […]
The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions, but the best exit to take to get there is in New Jersey
Unlike the previous anthology I read, this is a book with a certain thematic idea by different authors, rather than a collection of work by one author. So if you like (or don’t like) the author of one story, just move on to the next and see where it takes you. The book is separated in two parts with three sections each. Trafficking in Magic involves Distribution, Services, and Point of Sale, while Magicking in Traffic is divided into Directing Traffic, Bad Roads, and Changing […]
Mirror mirror on the wall, why is Mira so unbelievably naive?
Mirabelle has been raised by her extremely overprotective guardians, knowing that her parents died in a fire on the night of her christening. She desperately wants answers about her parents and her background, but her two guardians are none too forthcoming, and so Mira feels she has no choice but to run away. To make sure that the women who raised her don’t immediately track her to Beau Rivage, the place where she was born, she spends the six months before her 16th birthday creating […]
Bad Harry Potter goes to Narnia Hell Makes for Creepy Dirty Bad Reading
I was intrigued by the first third of The Magicians, hated the second third, and the final third was weird and I’m not sure it was enough to redeem the book from the middle part. The first part is dark Harry Potter, the second is existential and dirty in a creepy-bad way, and the last is Narnia gone to hell. Overall, The Magicians reminded me of The Secret History (which I liked parts of but overall didn’t like for many of the same reasons I […]
“You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband”
Radiance is an extremely clever romance, and the good-natured ribbing between the two leads, whose species find each other unforgivably ugly, is hilarious. It’s also a very thoughtful and reasoned take on societal beauty standards, and how remarkably different perceptions can be between two groups who aren’t all that dissimilar, but project and amplify their differences into something grotesque. Ildiko is a regular human noblewoman who enters a diplomatic marriage with Prince Brishen of the Kai. Neither is dragged kicking and screaming into it, because […]
If you believe anything can be bigger than Harry Potter, this might be for you
This is another one of those times where I was duped into buying a book because of rave reviews. Brian K. Vaughn even appears in a blurb on the cover stating that this is the kind of story he wishes he’d thought of. After reading it I wholeheartedly agree. I wish Brian K. Vaughn had thought of it too. The Unwritten takes place in a world where stories are truth. In this world Tommy Taylor is the biggest story of them all. Tom Taylor, however, […]
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