The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams (3 stars) I read this close enough to 20 years ago for me not to want to think too long on it. I was a teenager, and deeply enraptured by fantasy – particularly the weighty tomes that couldn’t quite fit in my back pocket. The kind of books that resonated with a heavy thud when dropped onto a table. The kind of books that probably exacerbated my natural awkwardness around girls. I devoured this book, and its sequels. So, […]
Both Perfect and Not Enough …
Bingo Square: Underrepresented This trilogy seemed to be very popular around the time I started getting into YA and dystopian novels but despite the positive reviews, I never got around to it. I think I was worried about overdoing it and burning myself out but I always meant to get around to the trilogy. It’s just other, newer books kept coming up. I finally downloaded it this year, but was trying to push myself to work through earlier downloads, so I still hadn’t started it […]
If by “Legend” you mean “won’t be remembered next week,” sure.
There were two big problems with my experience reading Legend: first, I should have read it five years ago; second, I listened to the audiobook, which was so perfunctorily narrated that the cheesy-ness of the line reading just emphasized how pedestrian the prose and dialogue are. I don’t listen to a lot of audiobooks, but I had hoped to make more of a habit of it since my current job is well-suited for listening to them while I work. Unfortunately, I think there is something […]
Love Must Make Sacrifices in War
Rating: 4.5/5 Summary: It has been months since Day & June went their separate ways at the end of Prodigy. Though they still care for each other, Day doesn’t want to burden June with his fatal prognosis. A peace treaty is being negotiated between the Republic and the Colonies when a tragedy strikes. Plague has spread throughout the Colonies and they’re blaming the Republic. The only hope for a cure seems to be Eden, but Day has already sacrificed his whole family for the Republic, […]