Category: Book Reviews

  • Monsters and Legends

    Book 1 of the Infinite Realms series. This book is a standard RPGLit style, with course language. Aside from the language, the book is great. It takes a bit to follow as you’re jumping between people and time (past/present). I love the theme of what someone would call evil could be the opposite. This wonderful…

  • The Tomb of Atuan

    Book 2 of the Earthsea Cycle. This book answers some questions and we see Sparrowhawk much older than I would have expected. However, this is a great story and the story starts from a while different direction than you would expect. I do love the circle that we see in theme that allows us to…

  • Visser

    Book 35.5 of the Animorphs series. This was an in-depth telling of the Yerk known as Visser 1. It was interesting and gives us just a little more backstory to this in and out villain that gets touched on several times throughout the series. Overall mostly an exposition/trial and nothing critical to the series, just…

  • A Wizard of Earthsea

    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…

  • The Andalite Chronicles

    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…

  • The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb

    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…

  • The Invasion

    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.…

  • The House of the Seven Gables

    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…

  • Empire of Cards

    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…

  • Archanist

    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…