The Draconic Bibliophile

  • The Seam: Secrets Beneath the North Pole by Deborah A. Wilson is an interesting and complex work. Dr. Winston Thornberry has acquired an unusual book, one that only furthers and deepens his lifelong quest. He has asked questions others consider impossible and finds himself only wanting more answers. Finally, he takes his unusual book and…

  • Tipping the Scale by Sami Wehbe is a novel about protesting corruption. Adel Safadi is a young man from a former soviet republic now called Berovia. Having left the country to pursue a career as an international lawyer he is asked to return to prosecute a case of corruption due to his impeccable reputation of…

  • The Hollow Place by Rick Mofina is the second book in his Ray Wyatt trilogy. Samantha is a young woman who has just recently lost her mother to cancer. To honor her mother and her heritage she is moving to Canada where her mother is from to go medical school. While on the trip moving…

  • Epic and Kimura: Fear of the Unknown is the first book in the Epic and Kimura series by Robert Cumming. Caleb and Mila are siblings who just want to do their best, in school and in their martial arts competitions. Something they each struggle with in different ways. One day they receive a copy of…

  • The Forty-Niners by William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone is about the California Gold Rush. The Bennett family have a family farm in the Ozarks but after two years of extreme drought are fixing to lose it at any time. Upon hearing of the gold rush and the chance of becoming rich, the father…

  • The Heel of Gods by Thien Nhan is the first book in the series, The Secret Atlantis. Alex is a young man native to the city of Athens and has always been drawn to the history and mythology of the Mediterranean world. As a teenager he saw an unusual phenomenon, a huge vortex, deep in…

  • We return to Victorian England with The September Society, book two of the Charles Lenox mysteries by Charles Finch. It picks up about a year after the end of the first book when Lenox is approached by Lady Annabelle, an acquaintance of his. Lady Annabelle is a widow whose husband passed away years ago when…

  • The Son of Neptune is book two of The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan and it circles back to Percy Jackson. In the previous book we had learned that Percy had mysteriously disappeared and no one knew what had happened. This book opens by revealing that Percy had also lost his memory and was…

  • A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan is a rather intriguing historical fantasy novel. Lydia Polk is a recent graduate of the Royal Academy of Witches and the apprentice of the Grand Mistress, Isadora, of the academy. When WWII breaks out Isadora places the might of the academy behind the Allied forces and works with…

  • A Nightmare of Magic and Madness is the first book in the Chaos of Magic series by Matthew Spizuco. Logan Grenbrook is a mage of the Gen’Dom order and is frequently sent out on various errands for other mages, that is whenever he is not working on his own studies. His mentor Jonathan has requested…