I really can’t remember what encouraged me to read Dark Currents. I am a fan of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy series (at least the first six) but I’ve only tried one other book by Ms Carey and I didn’t enjoy or finish it (The Sundering) even though I found it… Read more »
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Review: Her Mad Hatter (Kingdom #1) by Marie Hall
I obtained a free copy of the omnibus Kingdom Series Collection: Books 1-3 via Amazon on 24-Jun-2014. That means that all three books in the omnibus (Her Mad Hatter, Gerard’s Beauty & Red and Her Wolf) are eligible for my 2016 The Mt TBR Struggle is Real challenge!!! Annnnd wait!… Read more »
Review: The King’s Dragon by Carolyn Jewel
The King’s Dragon is adorable. The King’s Dragon is also a very short story (but so well written!) in a Fantasy setting. I really enjoyed the characters: Mair Barrence, the entirely too intelligent heroine, and Atul, the despised half-breed Elf. Since The King’s Dragon is so short, there’s not… Read more »
Review: Fighting Destiny (The Fae Chronicles #1) by Amelia Hutchins
WOW. Fighting Destiny is WTFery in its finest! I don’t know where to start. Honestly, I’m trying my best to forget everything I read because WTF, Batman! Fighting Destiny was amazingly fascinating, horribly edited and chock full of crazysauce. I have to admit that initially wanted to DNF Fighting Destiny… Read more »
Coursera: Online Games Week 2
This week in Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative This week the class is going to dig a little deeper into Tolkien, the social aspect of MMOs and take a look at one of my favorite epic poems: Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. Readings – J.R.R Tolkien’s… Read more »
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
“Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” said Tiffany. “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. Then Tiffany said, “There’s me.” Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young… Read more »
The Gods of Dream by Daniel Arenson
Visited Narnia and Middle Earth? Now escape into Dream. THE GODS OF DREAM — a fantasy novel by Daniel Arenson What are dreams? Some think they are figments of our mind. But what if they were wisps of a distant, magical world… a world you could visit? Twins Cade and… Read more »
Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines
Jig is a scrawny little nearsighted goblin-a runt even among his puny species. Captured by a party of adventurers searching for a magical artifact, and forced to guide them, Jig encounters every peril ever faced on a fantasy quest. I first heard about Jim C. Hines via a mention the… Read more »
The War of the Flowers by Tad Williams
Returning to the fantasy genre that made him a coast-to-coast best-selling phenomenon, Tad Williams has written a new stand-alone contemporary novel set in Northern California-and also in the strange parallel world that coexists in the farthest reaches of the imagination. Theo Vilmos is a thirty-year-old lead singer in a not… Read more »
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