The Magician by Michael Scott is the second book in the series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. It picks up with our group now in Paris having narrowly escaped the forces of Dr. Dee in Ojai. They find themselves in what appears to be a basement room that they quickly discover is in…
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon tells the story of Martha Ballard, a midwife who lived in the eighteenth century. The story opens in November of 1789 when a body is found in the frozen Kennebec river in rural Maine. As the local midwife and licensed medical practitioner, Martha Ballard is summoned directly from a…
Ken Follett dives into the turbulent world stage of 1914 with The Man From St. Petersburg. Walden is a lord and peer of the realm in the British Empire and as such a stalwart defender of that empire who is willing to do whatever it takes to support if the potential war actually starts. When…
Have you ever read a book that is the end of the beginning? Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb is just that as it is the final book in The Farseer Trilogy which is also the first of five series in The Realm of the Elderlings. It continues where the previous book, Royal Assassin, left off…
The Maze Runner is the first book in the aptly named Maze Runner series and is an interesting if somewhat disturbing teen dystopian novel by James Dashner. It opens with Thomas, a teenage boy who wakes up in what seems to be a dark black box with no way out. He also seems to have…
House of Echoes by Nat is the first book in the Hundred Hearts series. Rian is a teenage boy, about fifteen, and comes to the house to work. The house is where various people serve the voice that lives under the house and takes its warnings to the general public. Rian goes there because he…
This book is one that I have read before but not for several years and I felt like circling back around to it for some reason. The Testament is by John Grisham and it tells the story of the last will and testament of Troy Phelan. He is an older gentleman who is a multibillionaire…
Kingsbane is the second book in the Empirium series by Claire Legrand. Picking up shortly after the end of Furyborn we continue the story of Rielle and Eliana. Rielle is now anointed as the Sun Queen and is openly in a relationship with Audric. However, things are not yet peaceful for her as she is…
Today I am here to discuss a new kids series that I have recently started reading. The series may be unfamiliar as I don’t know how popular they are but from what I have seen so far the series is pretty good. It the Children of the Red King series by Jenny Nimmo and the…
This list is a bit of an interesting one, in my opinion, as it is about books that are both true and fiction at the same time, or rather fictionalized versions of true events and people. More specifically about things that happened during WWII which is a fascinating if sad time frame to read about.…
The Draconic Bibliophile
