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I have recently read a thriller by a new author, well new to me anyway, that was really good. First Family, part of the King and Maxwell series by David Baldacci is about Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, two former secret service agents who are now private investigators. Sean and Michelle are asked to a…
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Werewolves, so many werewolves. In Fool Moon, book two of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, that is exactly what Harry Dresden seems to encounter every time he turns around. The book opens with Harry being consulted by a trainee wizard on a containment ward that Harry claims is extremely dangerous to cast. Almost immediately…
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It is time to return to a world based around Welsh mythology and folklore with The Black Cauldron, the second book in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. In in we get to see the continuing adventures of Taran, the assistant pig-keeper, and his loyal group of friends. The story opens with a council…
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The year is half over and it is time for another monthly review of my reading. I finished 22 books last month which brings my yearly total up to 126. At my current rate I will finish my yearly goal of 200 books about two months early so that will be good. So once again…
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I really struggled while reading this particular book because of its content primarily. The Auschwitz Escape by Joel C. Rosenberg is the first book I have ever read by him and was both great and incredibly sad. As the title indicates it is about WWII, more specifically it is a fictional account of a Jew…
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War is always a bloody and destructive thing and in House of Crimson Roses by Chad Lester we see first-hand how it affects people. The book opens on the eve of the American Civil War with the attack on Harper’s Ferry. It soon transitions to one particular family, the Beaumonts, and the slaves that they…
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It is time to return to a world of prophecy, or at least a world where prophecies exist even if everyone seems to think they are currently broken. The Art of Destiny is the second book in the War Arts Saga by Wesley Chu and continues the adventures of Jian, the prophesized hero of the…
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Today’s book is one that I found really fascinating but one that is also rather disturbing in some ways. Nothing But The Truth is a teen novel by Avi and tells the story of Philip Malloy. It opens with Philip finding out that he is unable to try out for the high school track team…
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This book is probably not one that I would have picked to read by myself but I received it through the early reviewers program with Library thing so I went ahead and read it. The book in question was 52 weeks: A Party of One by Bianca Pensy Aba. It opens on New Years with…
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I am trying out a new author, well new to me at least, with the book In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune. It tells the story of a young man named Victor Lawson who lives deep in the forest in a tree house built in a grove of trees. Alongside him are Giovanni…
The Draconic Bibliophile
