So, Terry Pratchett is (was, sob) my favourite author and this is one of my favourites of his many many books. I was seriously considering doing my Cannonball of only Discworld books. But I only signed up for a half-Cannonball and there are 41 Discworld books, so… maybe next year? The Discworld is a gorgeous, rich, complex creation. Partly because Sir Terry wrote over 40 books about it, which covers a lot of ground (literally) and partly because he was a skilled world-builder with a […]
Xena’s Got Nothing on Her
I was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did. I mainly picked it up out of loyalty to Gail Simone. Gail Simone has also been synonymous with Batgirl, but after the New 52, the rumor is that she butted heads with DC, not enjoying the changes they were forcing onto Batgirl, so she quit. Dynamite grabbed her up immediately because the only comic book company out there that still doesn’t get it about women being another demographic that buys comic books is […]
Kushiel’s Dart May Strike True, But It Takes a Damn Long Time to Get There
I had some weird, odd deja vu going on reading this one. It tripped a bunch of nostalgia centers in my brain, but since I’m positive I’ve never read it before, I’m going to chalk it up to this being a book I would have LOVED in high school. (Not that that’s a slight on the book or anything, but it totally would have fit right into my geometry book once I finished reading about the vampire Lestat during class instead of memorizing the Pythagorean […]
Do you have a clue what happens now?
This is the sequel to Throne of Glass, the first in a series of at least four books. Again I find myself having started a series that has not yet ended. I hate that. Anyway. In Throne of Glass, Celaena Sardothien, a world-renowned assassin, participated in a competition to choose the King’s next Champion. Celaena, being no fan of the king, was only competing to save her own life, but, since she’s basically a killing machine with pretty hair and a fondness for reading, she […]