Book Review

Chronicles of Ara: Creation, a new book by Joel Eisenberg & Stephen Hillard, and the first in the Chronicles of Ara series. Creation is an interesting take on the fantasy genre. It’s not your run-of-the-mill fantasy full of dragons, heros, gods, and humans. Or actually, it IS but with a twist. The twist comes from the […]

The most recent and supposedly penultimate book in Sir Terry Pratchett’s almost forty book Discworld series is a crime thriller with a generous dose of his trademark fantasy/comedy combination. Snuff is in many ways like all of the Discworld books, telling familiar and almost allegorical stories of people and cities so like our own that […]

Review written for Best Fantasy Books by Enchanté (a.k.a) Jon Snow from Sleeping With Books. I’ve gotten a whole lot of books from Egmont publishers recently. One of the books I received from the publishers was a children’s picture book. I am a primary school teacher and just love picture books. They bring together many […]

Keeper Martin’s Tale — Officially the Worst Book I’ve Ever Read. A few posts ago, I talked about the Amazon Fake Reviews issue. One of the posterboy’s of this new author-writing-fake-review phenomenon is Robert Stanek. A while ago I wrote an actual review of his terrible book, Keeper Martin’s Tale. Stanek got Amazon to take […]

For those of you not in the know, Beowulf is a 10th century old English poem that has been translated and adapted many times; from good text translations to terrible film adaptations. In the poem, Beowulf is a giant of a man descended of kings, yet king he is not. Because of his father’s deeds […]

Review of The Magic Theif by Sarah Prineas There are many children’s fantasy books seeking to take the throne recently abandoned by JK Rowling. One of these contenders is Sarah Prineas who has written an entertaining juvenile fantasy series. Her first effort is The Magic Thief, first book in her new trilogy. The story revolves […]