Hoo boy! This 1200 page tome is going to be a doozy to try to review without spoiling but I’ll give it the old college try. Brandon Sanderson’s third installment of the Stormlight Archive is full of its share of world building, plot twists and some honest to goodness character development. I’ll try to keep things vague and broad but A LOT happens in this book. *some spoilers for the first two books ahead* Oathbringer picks up shortly after the events of Words of […]
The Gifts and Curses of our Ancestors
It’s no secret or shock to anyone with a decent knowledge of history that America is a country built on the backs of enslaved people. When Michelle Obama, speaking at the DNC in 2016, stated that slaves built the White House, it generated waves of shock and faux outrage. How dare she point out a historical fact. I remember not being surprised by her statement at the time nor thinking it should be particularly shocking to anyone, but it was for white people who didn’t […]
Hoping for more out of this than I’m getting.
The Witcher series, I must say off the bat, isn’t really sticking with me. I’m enough of a completist that I’m going to finish it (and I received the last book in the series as a gift from someone who didn’t know it was the last book in a series) but it’s not quite coming together in a way that has me very excited about the world or the characters. The first two books in the series were actually collections of short stories that were […]
Fantastical creatures, secret societies, and Greek mythology references – yes, please!
I basically blew through all seven novels of this series in four days. Fortunately, it is recent enough that I am still able to keep the plot lines very distinct but extra details about the family history and the family tree are added as the series progresses so I can’t get too far into some of the background because I can’t quite remember at what point certain concepts are introduced. Verity Price is the middle daughter of the latest generation of the Price family. The […]