My daughter Robin (not her real name) recently finished A Game of Thrones, and her observations on it amused me so much that I asked her to write a guest review. (Note: This review was first published on Goodreads.) WARNING: There are several spoilers here, none of them terribly detailed. … Read more »
The Chronicles of Prydain Series: Chronicles of Prydain Add to Goodreads Millions of young readers have been enthralled by the adventures of Taran the Assistant Pig-Keeper and his lively companions as they journey through the magical land of Prydain. First published more than thirty years ago and translated into twenty… Read more »
I really wanted to like The Rose Throne. I enjoyed Harrison’s The Princess and the Hound, which I found refreshingly original. But The Rose Throne disappointed me from the first page. While Harrison’s ideas are good, her somewhat lackluster execution made much of the book a chore to slog through,… Read more »
The River of No Return Series: River of No Return #1 on April 23, 2013 Add to Goodreads In Bee Ridgway’s wonderfully imaginative debut novel, a man and a woman travel through time in a quest to bring down a secret society that controls the past and, thus, the future…. Read more »
The Sweetest Dark Series: Sweetest Dark #1 on April 2, 2013 Pages: 352 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Deepest Night For fans of Lauren Kate and Libba Bray, The Sweetest Dark is filled with thrilling romance, exciting adventure, and ancient magic. Shana Abé brilliantly captures the drama… Read more »
His Majesty’s Dragon Series: Temeraire #1 on March 28, 2006 (paperback) Pages: 353 Add to Goodreads Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs… April 11, 2013 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 2 ★★★★★
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Recommend the Most. The list of books I recommend most is constantly changing, as I’m sure most people’s do, though there are some classics that stay on… Read more »
Jennifer A. Nielsen has done it again! The Runaway King delivers all the excitement and thrills of its best-selling predecessor, The False Prince. [Warning: this review contains some spoilers for Book 1.] Things are not going smoothly for the newly crowned King Jaron. The neighboring kingdom of Avenia continues to… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Characters from X Genre. I chose fantasy. I’ve been reading fantasy about as long as I can remember, if you count fairy tales as fantasy. Since I’m now old… Read more »
Cinder Series: Lunar Chronicles #1 on January 3, 2012 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Scarlet, Cress Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that… Read more »
