I'm going to make this as spoiler free for this books and the rest of the series as I can, but no promises. This is the third Dresden files book I've had to wait on like everyone else. I came to the series late in the…
It’s Tolkien Reading Day, and so I thought I’d dust off this old paper I wrote years ago for a Literature of Science Fiction and Fantasy class I took a while back. I’m going to “polish” it up a bit so that it’s less academic and…
I read Memory of Light, the final volume of the mega-series The Wheel of Time, a few weeks ago. I set out to write my review the next day, and then reconsidered. For this one, I felt I needed to wait a bit before delving into this. It would be…
The best books are those that stay with you, that make you think about the questions they ask long after you put it down. In his stellar debut novel, Ramez Naam does exactly that. Naam offers us a near-future, roller-coaster adventure that will grab you by the throat and won&…
I am an avid Harry Dresden fan! Love the books. Been hooked since I read page one of Storm Front. I've felt every Dresden book has gotten successively better than the last, up until Ghost Story. While I liked Ghost Story, I was prepared for it to not…
I first heard about WOOL from a review of one of my books, where someone used Mr. Howey's book to disparage mine, by way of talking about how awesome WOOL is. I filed the title away for future reference for when I was looking for something new to…
One of my biggest pet peeves in all of fiction is when a writer has characters do stupid things because the plot of the book requires them to do stupid things in order for the story to keep moving. Two writers come to mind when I think of this, Elizabeth…
