The Draconic Bibliophile

  • Review of “Terratron – Gods of Mars”

    Have you ever read a book and just ended up seriously confused? This doesn’t typically happen for me but with Terratron – Gods of Mars by Nathaniel Bernadau that did. The book opens with humanity contemplating ways to colonize space which leads to the creation of semi-sentient self-replicating terraforming robots. This leads to the formation…

  • Review of “Immortalis”

    I have finally finished the DemonWars Saga by R. A. Salvatore having read the last book, Immortalis. This book brings together the two previous books, Ascendance and Transcendence, to continue in a joint storyline. It opens just after Aydrian has been crowned King and Brynn has secured the freedom of the To-Gai-Ru. As Aydrian works…

  • Review of “The Conference of the Birds”

    This next book is the penultimate book in the series Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. The Conference of the Birds chronicles the continuing adventures of Jacob Portman and his friends. It opens with Jacob and Noor dealing with the aftermath of the attack on H as they try to figure out what is…

  • Review of “The Princess Bride”

    This next book is one that probably almost everyone has heard of and if you haven’t you probably have heard of the movie. I have to admit that I haven’t seen this movie and have only just now read the book for the first time. The book I am referring to is The Princess Bride…

  • Review of “Girl With A Pearl Earring”

    I want to preface this by stating that I know next to nothing about art or art history but I really thought this book sounded interesting. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier is about the creation of the painting Girl With A Pearl Earring by Vermeer. It tells the story of young Griet,…

  • Review of “Reliquary”

    Reliquary is the second book in the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It picks up about eighteen months after the end of the previous book Relic. After some remains with unusual wounds are found by police divers D’Agosta calls in some outside help by convincing Margo Green and Dr. Frock to…

  • Review of “The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe”

    The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and tells of the first adventure of the Pevensie children in Narnia. With the increased bombing by the Germans the four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are sent away to the countryside in order…

  • Review of “The Bright Sword”

    The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman has got to be one of the more unusual books about King Arthur that I have ever read. The book is about a young man named Collum who comes from one of the small isles next to Briton and wishes to become a knight of the round table under…

  • Review of “Misguided Trust”

    A world where everything is controlled by the government. In Misguided Trust by Lauren Wagner that is the world in which Sara lives in a government run town. More specifically, the government controls the water supply as supposedly all water is potentially poisonous and has to be run through a bunch of purification filters before…

  • Review of “Death Du Jour”

    Death Du Jour is the secondTemperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. It opens with Tempe traveling to Montreal for spring break to work on an excavation of a catholic nun being nominated for sainthood. However, she gets slightly busy when she is also called in to work on an arson case with several dead bodies.…