Reviews and Comments

Enjoyed Clare Deming's review.... will see about requesting this from the library

finally have all three books so let's see how it goes

sounds like a similar combination of sketchy, mad, biased, cranky -- and informative, as Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale, which we mean to take another stab at one day. In fact that's probably not a fair comparison to Dawkins, but anyway... toxic genius.

(recommended by E. Shallcross)

(I thought I just posted something?)

Accidentally posted this to To-Read rather than as my review at Read:

A variety of short pieces, suitable for reading at breakfast (or whenever, but that's when I read it). I liked some pieces more than others (skimmed the one that was mostly about someone's battles of will with their toddler). There were familiar concepts as well as new ones.

Good book, accessible to a range of reader types. Recommended.

liked a lot, read the whole series & looking forward to more.
Slow adding here because often have to add titles to the system

(on Dianne's reading list for that Oxford course, and it looked pretty good!)

(added with random date ... bookwyrm is missing so many books that I'd rather spend time adding missing books than looking up when I read them)

expensive, too new to be available on the secondary market, and my library system doesn't have it. a challenge !

Enjoyable wrap-up of the Chronicles. These stories of Shard the Gryfon and all his friends & his world have been charming, thoughtful, occasionally surprising, sometimes sad, almost always beautiful.

There are still more typos than a published work should have.

Would love to have the full set of these stories in hard copy. Maybe they will be re-issued in proofread & corrected copy someday. That would be lovely.

I love these books, even with the typos, and am sad to be coming to the end of the stories. Silver Wind wraps up Shard's main journey, bringing together many threads into what I found a satisfying conclusion. I especially like how Owen crafts characters that grow, doubt, struggle, and redeem themselves. There is uncertainty at times but never a real sense of impending doom. The books feel safe for most readers except those who absolutely cannot have death or carnivores.

I fervently hope that these books are picked up by a bigger publisher or otherwise re-issued with all the typos fixed. They would be worthy additions in hard copy to any library (we read/are reading them as ebooks).

... moving right along

Typos or not, these books are dreadfully addictive. Almost not looking forward to finishing the series, if you know what I mean.

As the stories of Shard & friends get more complex and multi-branched, we need to revise our opinion of this as YA... it's YA-friendly but more than "merely" YA. There are still way too many typos.