Lana Harvey lives in Limbo City (a place where all souls of all religions go), she’s a reaper (that doesn’t cause death but has to shepherd souls to their respective afterlife). The problem with Lana is that after 300 years, she’s still not inspired by the work and makes sure to do the maximum minimum. Unfortunately for her, her boss is the Grim Reaper and shockingly, he has just given her a promotion that involves a task that must be completed or Limbo City and […]
So Glad You Could Stay Forever
“Once we were a thousand separate kingdoms, spread over a hundred magic worlds. We were kings and cobblers. Wizards and woodcarvers. We had our sinners, our saints, and our blatant social climbers. And from the grandest lord to the lowliest peasant girl, we were, for the most part, strangers one to another.” “It took an invasion to unite us.” Reimagining fairy tales is not necessarily a new endeavor. They have ranged from the cute and fun “Tangled” to the popular TV series “Once Upon A […]
Oh Thank God, An Honest Narrator
The beauty in this book was breathtaking. Rothfuss’s structure, world building, and character development are so rich and colorful it almost feels like the world is jumping off the page at you in bright, vivid, reality. It may be sacrilegious to say, but I feel that Rothfuss could become this century’s Tolkien. His love for music, lyrical poetry and folklore bleed through every page of this novel in the best way possible. As much as I was gushing about this series after finishing “A Wise […]
We’re All A Little Richard Mayhew
This is my third Gaiman book, and I am continually impressed by Gaiman’s ability to break down every trope of the genre and rebuild it in a way that both continues to be fantastical but also makes it accessible. “Neverwhere” is a dark, dangerous, high stakes journey that in the hands of any other fantasy writer would need a main character of power, or at least someone with an attribute that sets them apart. But Gaiman chooses to tell his story through someone so average, […]