Category: fantasy
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The Witch’s Daughter is the second book in The Chronicles of Ynis Aielle by R. A. Salvatore and picks up thirty years after the first book. Del and Brielle’s daughter Rhiannon has just turned twenty and wishes to explore the world outside of Avalon. With her mother’s assent and the company of the rangers Belexus…
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Dragons of the Highlord Skies is the second volume of the Lost Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It picks up shortly after the events of Dragons of the Dwarven Depths and partially overlaps Dragons of Winter Night. Focusing on Kit, the story explores her finding out what is going on with her former…
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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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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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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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Sword Catcher is the first book in the Chronicles of Castellane by Cassandra Clare. Kel is a young man who serves Prince Conor of Castellane as his swordcatcher. This means that he is part companion, part bodyguard and body double in order to protect Conor to the best of his ability. Lin is a young…
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The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson. It is an intriguing mix of science fiction and fantasy that ended up being hilarious. The story opens with a man waking up in an unknown location with absolutely no memory. In fact the only thing he seems to have is fragments of a…
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Echoes of the Fourth Magic is the first book in the Chronicles of Ynis Aielle by R. A. Salvatore and is a little different than his other work. It tells the story of a ship that ends up in a storm in the Bermuda triangle. Next thing the sailors know they seem to be trapped…
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Having dealt with werewolves this series continues by dealing with ghosts. Grave Peril is the third book in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher and it continues Dresden’s adventures in dealing with things that go bump in the night. It opens on Dresden and his friend Michael hunting a ghost that is haunting the nursery…
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The Girl With Ghost Eyes by M. H. Boroson is the first book in the Daoshi Chronicles. It tells the story of Li-lin, a young woman who is a Daoshi priestess in Chinatown towards the end of the nineteenth century. She works with her father, another high-ranking Daoshi priest, where she unintentionally gets caught up…