This year kind of got away from me. I didn’t realize that my last review was all the way back in April. That feels like decades ago honestly. I was noticing that almost all of my favorite books from this year got read after that, so I wanted to catch up a bit with reviews for some of my favorite 2018 books. Despite the lack of reviews, I’ve had an extraordinarily good reading year. Soooo many books and a good chunk of them were 4 […]
On a scale from 1-5 this is solidly Prachetty.
Guards! Guards! Is about the people in fantasy novels we don’t see much, you know, the ones that storm in during a climatic scene for our hero storming the castle. Only these people are faceless, slain without mercy and never heard from again…Till now. Guards! Guards! Deals with the night watch of Ankh-Morpok, which has dwindled down to just three. The city runs fine without them, divided into their own guilds, such as the theives guild or the assassin’s guild. The night watch just sort […]
A 2,100 year old Druid and his talking dog Oberon do some magic and stuff.
This was a re-read for me, and I still liked it! I probably would have been okay just going into book two without a re-read and forcing my brain to delve buried memories from chasms deep or whatever, but this was a fast read and I think it was worth it. Lots of little details I know I wouldn’t have remembered, like people’s names, and entire plots . . . I mean, it’s been over four and a half years since I read it the […]
I am now a Tade Thompson fanboy
The Kinokuniya bookstore above Shinjuku Station in Tokyo has become one of my favorite stores for its excellent selection of English-language books. They have a really good sci-fi/fantasy section, and on a recent visit, they had a whole rack dedicated to recent award winners where I noticed the winner of a new award for African speculative fiction — the Nommo Award — and was intrigued enough to buy a copy. And let me just say that if there’s a better science fiction book this year […]