Category: Books

This was a 6-books series I've been working on for.... probably about 6 months.  I was listening to them via audiobook and they are LONG  (and I had about 2 months Nov-Dec where I couldn't buy the last 2 because it was xmas season. Then I found them at my local library via overdrive). Overview:… Continue reading Review: Codex of Alera (Jim Butcher) →

I have to admire an author who tackles something truly alien. Sci-fi writers have to really take an alien species and make them different. Some do this well, some don't.  I would argue it's even harder to take something real and make it familiar while also keeping it's truthfully alien nature consistent.  I give kudos… Continue reading Review: The Bees →

What she doesn't know before arriving is that emperor needs her help - his empire is seething with resentments from the wars he has fought and the nobles plot against him.

So during December, I am going to do some "throwback" reviews. Books that have been in my library as long as I've had it.  With my recent house purchase I have been unpacking my books. I lost some books. So with renewed access to my full library, I want to go back to some of… Continue reading Review: Dark Horse/Lightning’s Daughter →

This book, by James Dashner, was suggested by Goodreads as one I would enjoy because I enjoyed Hunger Games.  I read a few of the reviews and they either raved about it or hated it. I was intrigued (and it was like $0.99 on Google Play).  So I picked it up, knowing it probably wasn't going to be… Continue reading Review: The Maze Runner →

I Read this Blog Post which makes the case against borrowing/lending books. I understand completely the stress of lending. I let someone borrow Mistborn, didn't write down and who and now.... I have a hole in my collection. I will probably end up spending the $5 at a used book store to replace it, but I know I lent… Continue reading Review: Borrowing Books →

I needed to do some work this weekend and didn't feel like listening to "just" music, so I went to Scribd and found Valor's Choice (it actually recommended a later one in the series and I went and dug for the first) and listened to this audiobook... Overall: 7.75/10 Firstly, let me say I thoroughly enjoyed… Continue reading Review: Valor’s Choice (Tanya Huff) →

Deerskin by Robin McKinley was a deal on Google Play books so I decided to pick it up.  Once I started reading, I got engrossed pretty quickly.  Not for any of the usual reasons I get sucked into a story, but because it is so different from other books I've found over the past few years.… Continue reading Review: Deerskin (Robin McKinley) →

So I usually read a series before I review, but this book (as much as it is labelled as a #1), stands alone really, really well.  I heard it (audiobook) rather than read it, so I misspell some names: Synopsis: Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under… Continue reading Review: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (N.K. Jemisin) →