Category: fantasy
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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…
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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…
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In The Kingdom of Copper, book two of the Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty, we return to the intricacies of djinn politics. It picks up five years after the end of the previous book, The City of Brass, with Ali having spent those five years bringing water and growth to the Geziris. Dara has…
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No Man’s Daughter by T. H. Abram is the first book in The Oath of Woe series and is also an extremely unusual book in many ways. It tells the story of two young people, each starting a different journey. Sadia lives in the city of Qasira with several other children, her adopted siblings, doing…
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The God of Lost Words is the third and final book in the Hell’s Library series by A. J. Hackwith. It picks up some time after the end of the second book when the employees of the library are faced with a new threat. The demon Malphas, the same one who threatened the library previously,…
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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…
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I have finally finished the DemonWars Saga by R. A. Salvatore having read the last book, Immortalis. This book brings together the two previous books, Ascendance and Transcendence, to continue in a joint storyline. It opens just after Aydrian has been crowned King and Brynn has secured the freedom of the To-Gai-Ru. As Aydrian works…
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The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman has got to be one of the more unusual books about King Arthur that I have ever read. The book is about a young man named Collum who comes from one of the small isles next to Briton and wishes to become a knight of the round table under…
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A world where everything is controlled by the government. In Misguided Trust by Lauren Wagner that is the world in which Sara lives in a government run town. More specifically, the government controls the water supply as supposedly all water is potentially poisonous and has to be run through a bunch of purification filters before…
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The Riddle-Master of Hed is the first book in the Riddle Master trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip. It tells the story of young Morgon, the land ruler of the island of Hed, and a young man who had studied at the college for riddles in Caithnard on the nearby mainland. One day it is revealed…