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Out of the Silent Planet is the first book in C. S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy. It opens with a random man, Dr. Ransom, walking through a neighborhood and looking for a place to stay. He meets a young woman who says that he might be able to stay with her neighbors and if he does…
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The Last Hours by Minette Walters is an impressive piece of historical fiction. It covers the events of the black death and when it first entered England. The story focuses on one specific demesne in Dorset where Lady Anne of Devilish does whatever it takes to protect her serfs. Something that causes problems when her…
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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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I am going back to one of my favorite topics in literature with today’s book, The Candlestone, which is the second book in the series Dragons In Our Midst by Bryan Davis. It continues the story of Billy and Bonnie as they continue adjusting to their new world. Billy is still trying to adjust to…
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Emprise is the first book in the Trigon Disunity by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. It tells the story of an alternate earth, an earth where something caused a near-catastrophic collapse in the mid-twentieth century. A few decades after the collapse a former astronomer in the United States hears an unusual signal coming from deep space. After…
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Merchants of Virtue is the first book in the Huguenot Connection Trilogy by Paul C. R. Monk and it tells the story of the Delpech family starting in 1685. Jeanne Delpech has just returned, with her three children, to the family home in Montauban as she desires to have her next child be born in…
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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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It the beginning of another month which means time for my new list of recommended books. This time I am doing a list of classic kids series and my criteria are pretty simple. The books all need to be a series containing three or more books, the preferred genre is fantasy and the last but…
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Libraries, a sacred and mystical space. At least, it is if you are a dedicated reader. However, in The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk it is also a place where the absolutely horrendous happens. A one of a kind book goes missing. Liesl is a librarian at a university library…
The Draconic Bibliophile
