Book 1 of the Earthsea series. This is one of the classic fantasy books and a read will let you know right away why it is one book that is referred back to all the time. This story explores our hero’s journey from a young age. It explores how trying to take the easy route…

Book 12.5 of Animorphs. This is Elfangor’s story. An interesting backstory of the hero we only met briefly. It is simply wonderful to know how and what happened that has only been hinted at. It is wonderful to enjoy the history and see how the pieces fit together. The theme of what would you do…

Book 5 of Goosebumps. This one takes place in Egypt. Spooky and crazy as the strangeness pulls our protagonists into an ancient world of magic did it really happen or not. Isn’t it great to go through the whole thing just for a pun. Or maybe the pun was just convenient for the moment. Still…

Book 6 of the Tower of Power series. This bridge book opens the new threat, introduces us to them and sets our heroes into a position where they can compete with a new and worse threat. That said there is plenty of action and we do get a little more insight into the bigger picture.…

This classic, be it a romance, seems more mystery or tragedy. That said there is so much to this novel that will keep you trying to figure out who is in the right. It should be obvious the location of the deed but still to find it far too late seems so normal to real…

This was an excellent read. I may be a bit of a fan boy as I have enjoyed other novels. This one I was bummed was not a multiple book series as it has a great foundation. This fits well into the card game genre. If you like summoner style battles then you will dig…

Book 3 of the Tower series. This epic fantasy series is fun and ride through with a few new faces and ending with a lot of old ones. Lots of action and danger. If you’ve read the others, this is a continuation. There is a lot that happens in this one, but I enjoyed every…

Book 3 of the Loki:A Bad God’s Guide series. More of the same on this one. This appeals to those midgrade readers especially boys. I say that due to the amount of potty humor contained in these books. Outside of that they are a quick read, with the theme of this being along the lines…

Book 6 of How to Train Your Dragon. This installment has poor Hiccup cleaning up Toothless’s messes. It is fun to see this more real portion of pet care shown in an amusing light. Aside from that the adventure was pretty standard with the exception that we did not see the recurring villain in this…

Book 4 of the Goosebump series. Another fun spinetingler. Young kids and a mysterious camera, based loosely on the concept of the belief that a camera could take a person’s soul, which was stated in the text. I liked the chicken/egg causality question proposed as they try to figure out what is going on. This…