The Draconic Bibliophile

  • Review of “The Candlestone”

    I am going back to one of my favorite topics in literature with today’s book, The Candlestone, which is the second book in the series Dragons In Our Midst by Bryan Davis. It continues the story of Billy and Bonnie as they continue adjusting to their new world. Billy is still trying to adjust to…

  • Review of “Emprise”

    Emprise is the first book in the Trigon Disunity by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It tells the story of an alternate earth, an earth where something caused a near-catastrophic collapse in the mid-twentieth century. A few decades after the collapse a former astronomer in the United States hears an unusual signal coming from deep space. After…

  • Review of “Merchants of Virtue”

    Merchants of Virtue is the first book in the Huguenot Connection Trilogy by Paul C. R. Monk and it tells the story of the Delpech family starting in 1685. Jeanne Delpech has just returned, with her three children, to the family home in Montauban as she desires to have her next child be born in…

  • Review of “Assassin’s Apprentice”

    This next book took me back to the beginning of a series that I unintentionally started in the middle. A while back I read the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb and I mentioned that it didn’t feel like it was the start of the story. Turns out I was right and that series is…

  • Review of “Seizure”

    Human-Wolf hybrids hunting for pirate treasure. That almost doesn’t sound like it could be a real book but in Seizure, book two of the Virals series by Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs, there really are human-wolf hybrids hunting for pirate treasure. The book opens with Tory Brennan and her friends experimenting in order to figure…

  • 3 Classic Kids Series

    It the beginning of another month which means time for my new list of recommended books. This time I am doing a list of classic kids series and my criteria are pretty simple. The books all need to be a series containing three or more books, the preferred genre is fantasy and the last but…

  • Review of “The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections”

    Libraries, a sacred and mystical space. At least, it is if you are a dedicated reader. However, in The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk it is also a place where the absolutely horrendous happens. A one of a kind book goes missing. Liesl is a librarian at a university library…

  • Review of “Serial Killer Support Group”

    I’ve met a lot of older siblings but I don’t think any of them would go as far as Cyra Griffin did in Serial Killer Support Group by Saratoga Schaefer. When Cyra’s younger sister Mira is killed she is rather desperate to find out who killed her. Mira’s friend Eli who works as a clerk…

  • Review of “The Quest”

    Time to return to the world of Ancient Egypt with The Quest, the third book in the Ancient Egypt series by Wilbur Smith. Taita is visiting a remote sanctuary where he is getting his second sight ability unlocked when he first starts hearing rumblings and rumors of a highly evil sorceress that serves the Lie…

  • Review of “Petey”

    This particular book happens to be a long-time favorite of mine but one that I recently re-read and felt like sharing. Petey by Ben Mikaelsen tells the story of Petey Corbin, a man who has severe cerebral palsy. The book opens when Petey is just a child, only a year or two old, during the…