Category: fantasy
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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…
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A Mage’s Mentor is book one of the Ucksil’s Folly trilogy by Stephen Jarocki. It tells the story of Sinccah, a young woman and trainee mage who crosses the mountains into Ucksland in hopes of finding more information about her mother who had disappeared when she was just a kid. However, in order to do…
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Magic can be an extremely tricky business to practice. In Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman, the first prequel to the book Practical Magic, Maria Owens finds this out the hard way. The book opens with an extremely young Maria Owens being taken in by Hannah Owens after finding her abandoned near her rather remote house…
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I recently have been working my way through the DemonWars Saga by R. A. Salvatore, a series based in the world of Corona and tells the story of the various wars against the demon dactyl Bestesbulzibar. Having finished Ascendance with Aydrian Wyndon, now Aydrian Boudabras taking the throne of Honce-The-Bear I was expecting the next…
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Most books that contain magic have fairly similar styles of magic so it was rather refreshing to see something different in Hard Magic, book one of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia. It tells the story of Jake Sullivan, a former military man turned criminal turned private investigator working for the government. When he is…
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I have read very few books that mention djinn but of those this next book seems to be one of the better ones. The City of Brass is the first book in the Daevabad trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty and starts the story of Nahri, a young woman living in Cairo, and Ali, prince Alizayd…
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Werewolves, so many werewolves. In Fool Moon, book two of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, that is exactly what Harry Dresden seems to encounter every time he turns around. The book opens with Harry being consulted by a trainee wizard on a containment ward that Harry claims is extremely dangerous to cast. Almost immediately…
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It is time to return to a world of prophecy, or at least a world where prophecies exist even if everyone seems to think they are currently broken. The Art of Destiny is the second book in the War Arts Saga by Wesley Chu and continues the adventures of Jian, the prophesized hero of the…