The Draconic Bibliophile

  • Review of “Relic”

    I read a lot of books and I do mean a lot of books, but I have to admit that I rarely get to read such a finely tuned blend of horror and science fiction as what I just read. Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is the first book in their Agent Pendergast…

  • Review of “Give Her Credit”

    I recently received an interesting book as part of my amazon Prime first reads. It was Give Her Credit by Grace L. Williams, a book that tells the true story of a group of women that came together with the brilliant idea to open a bank aimed to serve the minority populations that were typically…

  • Review of “The Dark Prophecy”

    The Dark Prophecy is the second book in The Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan. It focuses on the continuing adventures of Apollo as he strives to regain his godhood. He has now traveled for six weeks with Leo Valdez and Calypso and together they have arrived in Indianapolis where they are confronted by…

  • Review of “Stormbreaker”

    I’m not usually a fan of spy novels. Typically, they’re not my cup of tea. That being said, the first time I read Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz I had trouble putting it down. Since then I have reread it several times, again just recently, and have also read most of the rest of the series.…

  • My Reading for January 2025

    So, January is over for this year and it is time for me to provide my monthly review of my reading. This last month, January 2025, I managed to read a grand total of 23 different books throughout the course of the month. What this means is that I seem to be right on schedule…

  • Review of “The Woods Out Back”

    I want to start this by saying that today’s book made me jealous. It’s about a guy who falls asleep while reading in the woods behind his house and wakes up in the land of Faerie. I used to read in the woods behind my house, how come that never happened to me? If only,…

  • Review of “Hell Followed With Us”

    I recently received a book for the holidays that is probably the weirdest conglomeration of themes that I have come across recently. It felt like it was a combination of Christian, LGBTQ+, and horror, which I have to admit was a very unusual combination to read. The book in question is Hell Followed With Us…

  • Review of “The Armor of Light”

    I have previously talked about this particular author’s ability to create an incredibly detailed world. Having read another of the books in the Kingsbridge series I can definitively say that Ken Follett continues in the next book. The Armor of Light is the fourth book, not counting the prequel, in the series that are based…

  • Review of “A Column of Fire”

    If you ever wanted to read an epic of world-building that is on the same scale as anything by Tolkien than I know the perfect book. A Column of Fire is the third book in the wildly popular Kingsbridge series by celebrated author Ken Follett. It tells the story of Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald,…

  • Review of “To Ride Pegasus”

    Have you ever come across a book by one of your favorite authors that you realize you have never read before? I recently did just that when I started reading To Ride Pegasus by Anne McCaffrey, the first book in the Talents series. She has been one of my favorite authors since I was a…