Obviously, I am on a dragon kick this year, at least book-wise. Beyond that, dragons are always awesome. Just ask my dining room decor. After seeing yesknopemaybe’s review of Heartstone, I decided to check it out even though I am not always the biggest fan of Pride and Prejudice re-imaginings (the other dragon series I read this year also had a little Pride and Prejudice inspired short story!). I think my ambivalence about P&P retellings is actually more because the original isn’t my favorite Austen […]
We continue our adventures with Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin!
This is book two of the Time Quintet, and it happens a little while after A Wrinkle in Time. I’m a bit of a completionist (word?), so I want to read the whole Time Quintet. This book was only about 210 pages long, and it was a pretty quick read. I think I read it in three short sittings. It has all my favorite characters – Calvin, Charles Wallace, and Meg. I actually like Meg more in this book than I did in A Wrinkle […]
The Most Grim Series That I Still Love
I had just started a new book when I remembered that the sequel to The Call, The Invasion, came out for Kindle soon, so I abandoned what I was reading (sorry, The Sparrow, I’ll get back to you soon) to re-read The Call in anticipation. I used to read a lot of young adult novels. I still read a fair amount of them. But it’s rare that I find a young adult series as brave about being grim and dark as The Call is. I […]
Robert Jordan’s last completed book.
I’m glad the last book Robert Jordan wrote was such a huge step up in quality from the ones before it. Seems like he was ready to get down to business finally. No matter what you think of him as a writer, I don’t think anyone can deny that it was a tragedy for him to die before he could finish out this thing that he’d been working on for so long, and so close to the end. I hope he knew his story had […]