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Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has …
Stephen King's second novel,'Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered …
ROLAND THE GUNSLINGER and his band have narrowly escaped the city of Lud and boarded …
One of the best-written tales Sai King has ever put to paper. The characterization and world-building and the story were all high-points to me, and the love story he weaves is wonderfully bittersweet. After 3 books, getting this backsyory retroactively makes Roland a cooler character.
This book was just some good, emperor-fearing boys making it in the universe against indomitable odds and a homicidal bureaucracy. Great fun.
This book was just some good, emperor-fearing boys making it in the universe against indomitable odds and a homicidal bureaucracy. Great fun.
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is …
Humans expanded into space…only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on …
Content warning Plot spoilers about some of the things I wished had been answered
OK, I loved it. It opens with probably the best POV/sequence in the series as we meet Rafe (and I won't say anything more there) and follow him up until his escape. Afterward, we get to see the action of the last 3 books finally culminate in a nice diplomatic conclusion for all involved parties...but we still get left with some questions. Maybe they're questions that don't need to be answered, but I had a lot of questions about what the Consu were doing and why that never seemed to culminate.
And that's honestly fine, it's just a place I expected to see them show up and they didn't...but the Consu are nothing if not unpredictable in the universe, and their culture is so dogmatic as to be unknowable, it makes sense. That's about the only thing I really would have changed though: I would have liked for the Consu to have figured into the ending in a more direct way.
Still, this series has been one of the funniest, fastest reads I've had this year. It's a solid recommend from me for the entire set.
The Human Division is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi, the fifth …
This book really breathes a lot of life into the setting and continues building on the events of books 3/4 in a way that makes sense, even without the previous POV characters. I liked the change to multiple POVs we get in this one, and the political drama is extremely fun.
How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because …
There's a lot to like here, but story-wise it does retread a lot of ground we've honestly seen before. I think in the notes he mentioned he wanted to sew up a few plotholes once he started writing it, but honestly, the last 25% of the book probably could have been a short by itself. Zoe is an interesting, fun character to follow, though. Mostly what makes this book weaker is that it's retreading the same water we just swam out of.
In a universe of harsh interstellar conflict, the practice of interspecies diplomacy—when possible—is important. So being a Colonial Union officer …
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony …
Honestly right about here and book 4 was when the series started to stall a bit for me. It never stalled so bad I didn't want to keep reading, but right after this the books sort of reinvent themselves and go a different direction with people who had been side characters, or only appeared in shorts. Still, it's a great introduction to the conflict that gets solved in the conclusion of the series.
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his …
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the …
