-
Eragon, book one of The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, set the stage for a great fantasy series. It tells the story of young Eragon, a boy who is only fifteen when the story opens. While hunting in the Spine, a mountain range near the farm where he lives with his uncle and cousin, he…
-
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…
-
Crystal Line is the third and final book in the Crystal Singer Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey. It picks up the story of Killashandra over a hundred years after the events of the previous book. Killashandra and Lars have been a rather productive and prosperous team of cutters for that time even as Killashandra’s memory continues…
-
The Fire Within is the first book in The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris D’Lacey. It tells the story of David, a young college student who rents a room from Elizabeth Pennykettle. Upon moving in he gets drawn into the antics of Liz’s young daughter Lucy who seems determined to protect and rescue the local…
-
A world filled with dragons. Dragonflight is the first book in The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. It tells the story of the lead up to the ninth pass of thread fall on Pern. It opens in Ruatha hold where Lessa, daughter and heir to the hold, hides from Fax, the man who…
-
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…
-
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…
-
As many of you are aware The Titan’s Curse is the third book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and the halfway point. Both in terms of the series but also in terms of the character’s timeline as it is the only book to not take place over the course of a…
-
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…
-
I am extremely glad I do not live in Ancient Pompeii, just saying. A Day of Fire is an anthology of short stories written by six different authors: Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Ben Kane, Eliza Knight, Sophie Perinot, and Victoria Alvear. Each of their six stories tells the events of the final days of Pompeii…
The Draconic Bibliophile
