The Draconic Bibliophile

  • Review of “The Battle of the Labyrinth”

    Today we are going back to the mystical world of Greek Mythology with The Battle of the Labyrinth, book four of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. It opens on Percy attending orientation at his soon to be new school only to be chased and attacked by a group of Empousa.…

  • Review of “The Invisible Library”

    The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman is the first book in the series of the same name. Irene works in the library as a librarian whose job is to travel to alternate realities in order to find rare and/or one of a kind works of literature, many of which are found in only one alternate…

  • Review of “Six Women of Salem”

    Six Women of Salem by Marilynne K. Roach tells the story of the Salem Witch trials through the stories of six women that were involved. It opens by providing brief bios of each of the women prior to the witch trials before then covering the actual events of the year 1692. Starting in January it…

  • Review of “Heir of Sea and Fire”

    Heir of Sea and Fire is the second book in the Riddle Master Trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip and continues the story started in the first book. It opens almost a year after the end of the previous book but focuses on Raederle, the young woman who was to be betrothed to Morgon, and her…

  • Review of “City of Orphans”

    City of Orphans by Avi takes place in New York City but in 1893. It tells the story of two young teenagers, Maks Geless and his new friend Willa. Maks is a newsie just trying to help his family make ends meet when he starts getting harassed by the Plug Ugly Gang. One day he…

  • Review of “Shards of Earth”

    Shards of Earth is the first book in The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It tells the story of Idris Tellemier, a man who is also something known as an intermediary. The intermediaries were a group of humans that were experimented on to gain extrasensory powers fifty years previous to help fight a war…

  • Review of “Red Mars”

    Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is the first book in The Mars Trilogy. It opens with a celebration that is all about the progress being made to turn Mars into an actual habitable planet. The celebration quickly goes downhill when one of the original settlers is attacked and killed. It then jumps back to…

  • Review of “Spellbound”

    In Spellbound, book two of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia, the adventure continues for Jake Sullivan and Faye Vierra as things get rather dark. It opens with an attack on the new president, FDR, by an active magic user but this is also an attack that works to frame the Grimnoir society and thus…

  • Review of “Ink and Bone”

    This is a little weird to say but I think I found a world where I would not want to live. Ink and Bone is the first book in The Great Library series by Rachel Caine. It is based in a world that is ruled, albeit indirectly, by the Great Library of Alexandria. Apparently here…

  • Review of “Relentless Blades”

    Sometimes you just need to read a good adventure story and Relentless Blades, book one of the Prophecies of Zarune, by Russell Carroll is just that. It tells the story of Grimlock, known as Grim, a young ranger tormented by the humans he is trying to protect and desperately trying to find his place in…