The biggest release for me this week is Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance. This is the second in the Stormlight Archive, Sanderson’s proposed 10 book epic fantasy series. That was my biggest issue with The Way of Kings – Sanderson has planned it to be an epic tale right from the beginning so the large scope is readily apparent. I’ve much preferred tales which have “grown in the telling” as the saying goes. Th...
Through Netgalley I was offered an advanced reader’s copy of YA time travel novel The Here and Now by Ann Brashares. It tells the story of Prenna James, a time traveller and refugee in our time from a future in which global warming and plagues have left the world devastated. She and her community of fellow refugees must live by strict rules for their protection and that of those native to their adopted time. One of these include...
Through Netgalley I was offered an advanced reader’s copy of YA time travel novel The Here and Now by Ann Brashares. It tells the story of Prenna James, a time traveller and refugee in our time from a future in which global warming and plagues have left the world devastated. She and her community of fellow refugees must live by strict rules for their protection and that of those native to their adopted time. One of these include...
The Darkest Minds: Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken is the followup to The Darkest Minds. This series tells the story of Ruby, a young girl living in a world where most of the children have been killed by a virus but the survivors have been left with supernatural powers. Ruby is one such survivor with the power to control other people’s minds. The country has been left devastated by the loss of the children and fear of those who ...
The Darkest Minds: Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken is the followup to The Darkest Minds. This series tells the story of Ruby, a young girl living in a world where most of the children have been killed by a virus but the survivors have been left with supernatural powers. Ruby is one such survivor with the power to control other people’s minds. The country has been left devastated by the loss of the children and fear of those who ...
With the movie coming out soon, I decided it was time to pick up James Dashner’s The Maze Runner. I wasn’t too sure if I would enjoy it so I picked it up in eBook from the library. [book-info] I’m glad I didn’t purchase it because I found it was not really my cup of tea. It reminded me in some ways of Lost – more questions being asked than answered. It was particularly frustrating when characters refused to share ...
With the movie coming out soon, I decided it was time to pick up James Dashner’s The Maze Runner. I wasn’t too sure if I would enjoy it so I picked it up in eBook from the library. [book-info] I’m glad I didn’t purchase it because I found it was not really my cup of tea. It reminded me in some ways of Lost – more questions being asked than answered. It was particularly frustrating when characters refused to share ...
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead is the first in the Bloodlines series, the spinoff from Vampire Academy. It follows the story of young Alchemist Sydney Sage whom we met in the Vampire Academy series. In it, Sydney is tasked with protecting Jill Mastrano in Palm Springs and in order to do so attends an elite boarding school with her. We learn more about the Alchemists and also some secrets about Vampire Academy characters are revealed....
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead is the first in the Bloodlines series, the spinoff from Vampire Academy. It follows the story of young Alchemist Sydney Sage whom we met in the Vampire Academy series. In it, Sydney is tasked with protecting Jill Mastrano in Palm Springs and in order to do so attends an elite boarding school with her. We learn more about the Alchemists and also some secrets about Vampire Academy characters are revealed....
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern is whimsical tale of a magical competition by proxy between two conjurers which takes place through the medium of a fantastical circus which “opens at nightfall, closes at dawn.” The challenge is further complicated by the fact that the two chosen proxies fall in love. I read recently that the novel in its original form was little more than a series of vignettes with little in the way of plot o...