Among Others by Jo Walton I listened to this as an audiobook, and enjoyed it so much that I found myself almost hoping that traffic would be bad so that I could listen just a litle longer. I think part of it is the narrator, who did a brilliant job with all the different accents …
Tag: fantasy
Dec 01
Book Review: The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys, by Travis Heerman I read an ARC (Advanced Reader’s Copy) of this book, and had no backflap, so I wasn’t sure what kind of story I was getting into. It starts out with Mia, a high school girl in Omaha. She has trouble fitting in because for one, she’s new and two, …
Nov 12
Book Review: The Thirteen
The Thirteen: A Novel by Susie Molone y I got this book as a free promo at World Fantasy, and it survived the brutal “I don’t want to check my bag” purging at the end of the convention. Alas, I misplaced it and thought I’d left it on the plane, and by that time I …
Sep 18
Book Review: The Magician King
The Magician King by Lev Grossman I have mixed feelings about this book. In some ways it’s a stupendous literary achievement. In other ways, it’s a thought problem of what would happen in real life if you min-maxed to get intelligence modifiers by using charisma as a dump stat. Or, to clarify for those of …
Sep 16
Book Review: The Sharing Knife, Horizon (#4)
Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold This is the fourth book of the series, and the conclusion. Really for truly the conclusion, which gets it big points in my ledger. As a whole I think this series is well worth reading. While the worldbuilding wasn’t vastly creative, it was different enough that it didn’t bore me. …