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Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files and the …
First off, this is nothing like the Dresden Files. It's more of a generic good guys vs. bad guys story, with flying boats. Not bad, not great. I feel like I might've liked it better if I were a "cat person", because this book is also filled with annoying talking cats.
Shadows of Self shows Mistborn’s society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and …
"Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge …
Mistborn in the old West. Kind of reminded me of Sherlock Holmes a little, also. I like it.
Can't really say much without spoiling the plot of books 1-3.
Looking forward to book five.
"Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles …
Without the protection of Gavin Guile, who has been captured and enslaved and has lost …
By far the best book so far in the series.
The Blinding Knife is a 2012 epic fantasy novel by New York Times Bestselling author …
The main part of this book was a lot more interesting than Book 1 (except for the part where apparently everyone is obsessed with some sort of knockoff Pokémon card game).
The story started to fall apart in the end, though. Lots of fast paced stuff going on, but the story kept rewinding to tell us about the same event from someone else's point of view. So, what should have been pretty cool lost all of its momentum.
Gavin Guile is the Prism, the most powerful man in the world. He is high …
Meh. It was okay. Not a lot really happened, aside from a battle at the end. Listened to it on audiobook, though, and wow was the narrator bad. So bad.
The fifth awesome tale in Erikson's epic Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy sequence.After decades …
So, the first four Malazan books... This one dumps everything you've read. It takes place before the first book with a completely new plotline and completely new characters (save for one minor character from Book 4).
On the bright side, it's a good book with plenty of interesting characters. Time travel does get briefly mentioned in this book, so I suspect that some of these characters will make it into the main storyline in the next book or two.
In Northern Genabackis, tribal mountain warriors raid southern flatlands. Years later, Tavore, Adjunct to the …
Karsa-freakin'-Orlong. About half of the book revolves around him, and it's hard to decide if he's a completely despicable dirtbag or if he's a really cool guy.
The rest of the book ties up the Whirlwind/Apocalypse plot from the last couple books (in somewhat lackluster fashion).
And, this book proves yet again that nobody ever really dies in the Malazan books. That part is getting a little too predictable.
It took three long books, but I'm finally starting to give a crap about some of these characters. Unfortunately, quite a few of them got killed off in this book. However, I've come to expect that nobody - NOBODY - ever really dies in this series, so they'll probably all be back as gods or something.
Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a …
Absolutely no plot whatsoever. A girl with crippling OCD (who is apparently on a continuous ecstasy bender) arranges things for 150 pages. That's it.
Oh, and she makes some soap.
So, it's a book about a heist and also it's an end-of-the-world story. The characters are finally not completely hateworthy. Normally, I'd give a better score, but I'm still jaded against how the series started. Suck it, Coldwater.
The Magician King is a new adult fantasy novel by Lev Grossman, published in 2011 …
Thankfully, the main character doesn't get quite as much opportunity to be a huge douche. Although, the book revisits Julia's backstory. She moves to France, so the author gets all kinds of opportunity to pepper the pages with douchy French words. Overall, a fairly mediocre book. I give it three douchnozzles out of five.
A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the …
A book about an American Harry Potter clone who drops F-bombs and is obsessed with literature about a cheap Narnia knockoff. Then he graduates from wizard school and becomes a drug-addicted trustfund Manhattan partyboy.
I despise the whiny, self-absorbed, arrogant, douchebag main character in this book. I want him (and his lame friends) to fall into a giant meat grinder. The worst part is that I don't even think this was even the author's intention. I just think that Lev Grossman, himself, must be a giant douche; and this is how he thinks normal people act. He even throws in unnecessary, pretentious French words every few pages, just to make you hate him that much more.
But... there were a few decent pages thrown in near the end which made it tolerable enough to actually read the next book. I did already have checked it out from the library, so …
A book about an American Harry Potter clone who drops F-bombs and is obsessed with literature about a cheap Narnia knockoff. Then he graduates from wizard school and becomes a drug-addicted trustfund Manhattan partyboy.
I despise the whiny, self-absorbed, arrogant, douchebag main character in this book. I want him (and his lame friends) to fall into a giant meat grinder. The worst part is that I don't even think this was even the author's intention. I just think that Lev Grossman, himself, must be a giant douche; and this is how he thinks normal people act. He even throws in unnecessary, pretentious French words every few pages, just to make you hate him that much more.
But... there were a few decent pages thrown in near the end which made it tolerable enough to actually read the next book. I did already have checked it out from the library, so what the eff.
Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high …
Harry Dresden does "Oceans Eleven". Good book, but felt like a distraction from the main story arch.