The Draconic Bibliophile

  • Review of “Re-Printed Matter”

    3D printing a human body, I have to admit that it not something that I have come across before. That is however a primary theme in the book Re-printed Matter by Peter I. M. Merrins. The book opens just a few decades into our future, at a time when 3D printing has progressed into quantum…

  • Review of “Ascendance”

    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…

  • Review of “Virals”

    Accidental genetic mutation. That is the driving factor in Virals, the first book in the series of the same name, by authors Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs. This book is the first adventure of young Tory Brennan, great-niece to Temperance Brennan. It opens on her and a group of friends being curious and getting into…

  • Review of “Before She Finds Me”

    A single chance event and the two women it unintentionally brings together. In Before She Finds Me by Heather Chavez we see how exactly Ren and Julia are brought together. Julia is with her daughter, Cora, registering her for college and dropping her off at the dorms when the shooting starts. Due to past experience…

  • Review of “The Apprentice”

    Paranoia can be extremely disorienting and I have rarely seen it portrayed as well as I did in The Apprentice. This is the second book in the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerritsen and is the sequel to The Surgeon. It opens when Rizzoli is called to a crime scene of a double murder…

  • Review of “Where I’d Like To Be”

    I recently realized that here in the U.S. May is National Foster Care Month so I decided to read a book about foster care in support. The book I chose was Where I’d Like To Be by Frances O’Roark Dowell. It opens with Maddie, a twelve-year old living in the Elizabethton Children’s Home after it…

  • Review of “Flags of Our Fathers”

    Here in the U.S. today happens to be Memorial Day so I thought I would show my support by posting a review of an appropriate book. After much contemplation I ended up reading Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley. This book tells the story of the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima…

  • Review of “Tiita’s Daughter”

    Tiita’s Daughter is a biographical novella written by Tuutalik Boychuk. It tells the story of Julia, a child and later a woman, who lived through abuse at the hands of her biological parents. In doing so it also shows how Julia was able to stop the cycle of abuse from continuing past her. This was…

  • Review of “Summer Sons”

    Have you ever read a book that you think is going to be one thing but in reality it is something almost entirely different? Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo is one such book. It tells the story of Andrew, a young man who had been planning to move to Nashville to join his friend Eddie…

  • Review of “Killashandra”

    Crystal singing, A bit of an odd profession and yet it is the primary occupation of the Heptite Guild. In Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey, book two of the Crystal Singer Trilogy, we return to the life of protagonist Killashandra Ree. The book opens with her returning from the crystal ranges hoping to make enough credits…

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