Reading Challenge Update (June)

Right, so in looking back over this year’s blog posts to determine when I last reported in on my reading challenge, I discovered that I haven’t for a while. I thought it had only been a month. Or so. Maybe longer. I was surprised to find out it had been three months. I did postContinueContinue reading “Reading Challenge Update (June)”

Review: Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

I was pretty sure I’d like Half A King. My only concern was that it might be bloated in the way of epic fantasy, presenting me with a lot of words that may or may not add up to a considerable story. Not that I suspected Joe Abercrombie might deliver anything like that, but IContinueContinue reading “Review: Half a King by Joe Abercrombie”

Review: Defenders by Will McIntosh

A few of my reviewing friends had very good things to say about Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh. So when Orbit dropped the price of McIntosh’s newest release, ‘Defenders’, to $1.99 (ebook only, courtesy of the Orbital Drop newsletter), I figured it was a good time to take the author for a test drive.ContinueContinue reading “Review: Defenders by Will McIntosh”

Review: Memory (A Miles Vorkosigan Novel) by Lois McMaster Bujold

Summoned home to Barrayar to follow up on an incident where he might have accidentally cut the legs of the Imperial Courier he had just rescued, Lord Miles Vorkosigan finds that his own integrity is not the only thing awry. Simon Illyan, Chief of Imperial Security (Imp Sec) is having trouble remembering things, which shouldContinueContinue reading “Review: Memory (A Miles Vorkosigan Novel) by Lois McMaster Bujold”

Review: The Herald (The Sundering, Book VI) by Ed Greenwood

This is it; we’re at the end of a long road. We are at ‘The Sundering’. Set during the Era of Upheaval, ‘The Sundering’ is a multi-author event chronicling the adventures of Faerûn’s heroes, from those just Chosen to some of the Realms most enduring characters. The Herald, by Ed Greenwood, rounds out the seriesContinueContinue reading “Review: The Herald (The Sundering, Book VI) by Ed Greenwood”