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I frequently feel sad when I finally finish a series, especially if it was a pretty good series. The Empire of Gold is the third book in the Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty and wraps up the story of Ali, Nahri, and Dara. It opens directly after the attack on Daevabad when Ghassan died…
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Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer is the teen series by noted author John Grisham. It starts with young Theo looking forward to the start of a new trial in his town, a murder trial that has been big in the press. Theo is excited about the trial as he wishes to be a lawyer when he…
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The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa is a good book but also a little unusual. Rintaro Natsuki is a teenager who is working on closing up the secondhand bookstore he recently inherited from his grandfather when something unusual and slightly astonishing happens. A tabby cat randomly appears in the bookstore and claims that…
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Circle of Days is the newest work of historical fiction by Ken Follett and it is brilliant. It tells a story about Stonehenge and its creation through the eyes of the people who built it. Joia is a young woman who becomes a priestess at the monument due to her wish to learn more about…
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We have officially entered 2026 and I figure I might just want to provide an overview of my reading for the last year. I know many people wonder just how many books I actually read so I thought I would share the actual numbers with you guys before diving into some of the best books,…
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Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini is the second novel set in his fractalverse and is the prequel to the novel To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. It tells the story of Alex Mercer and the crew of the Adamura. In 2234 the Adamura discovers an anomaly on Talos VII, a planet that is supposedly…
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We return to the world of The Great Library with book two, Paper and Fire, Rachel Caine. It picks up several months after the events of Ink and Bone, where Jess is working on completing his guarda training alongside his friend Glain. It is here that Jess gains new skills and becomes more wary of…
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A Letter to the Luminous Deep is the first book in The Sunken Archive by Sylvie Cathrall and it was not what I was expecting. The book starts with two people who know of each other but have never actually met. Sophy Cidnorghe is a former scholar and the sister of E. Cidnosin who had…
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The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson is the first book in his Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner series. It opens with Ted, a young, well-off and recently married man from Boston who has recently discovered that his wife may be cheating on him with the contractor building their new house. On a plane ride back from…
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I was absolutely enthralled with Edge of Eternity, the final book in the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. It opens in the early 1960’s with George Jakes, son of Greg Peshkov, participating in the Freedom Rides. From there it follows his career working with Bobby Kennedy in the Justice Department. At the same time it…
The Draconic Bibliophile
