Category: fantasy
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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…
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What is a book? And what is a story? These are questions that continue to be explored in The Archive of the Forgotten, the second book in the Hell’s Library series by A. J. Hackwith. It picks up six months after the events of the first book, The Library of the Unwritten, as the employees…
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I just finished Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb which is the third book in the Tawny Man Trilogy. It tells the story of what happened when Fitz, Prince Dutiful, Chade, and Thick finally make the journey to the outislands so Dutiful can win the hand of the Narcheska Elliania. In order to do so they…
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I have finally reached the second half of The Demonwars Saga with Ascendance, which is the fifth book overall in The Demonwars Saga and it marks the beginning of the second DemonWars trilogy. Several years have passed for the various characters since the time of the rosy plague in the previous book Mortalis. Pony, still…