fantasy

I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve been making a more concerted effort to read more books–or listen to more, as the case may be. Up today is another audiobook I listened to: the fourth Tiffany Aching book by Terry Pratchett. I’m a big Pratchett fan, and I loved the Wee Free Men–the first one in this series. For those of you who don’t know, it stars a young (16 year-old) witch and a group of stealing, fighting, Scottish Smurfs (more or less). Like most of Pratchett’s work, it mixes humor and philosophy […]

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m making a renewed effort to read more books lately, and I have to say it’s a goal that’s made much simpler when the books are as quick to read as Brandon Sanderson’s Steelheart was for me. Do you ever have a book that you read, and you’re just sick with envy over? Maybe not, I suppose–unless you’re an author yourself. Full disclaimer if you didn’t already know it–Brandon’s a good friend of mine, and there are times when I just want to throttle the guy for the simple reason

The Passage by Justin Cronin My rating: 3 of 5 stars A vampire book that isn’t your typical vampire book. A more realistic take on the genre, with viruses and genetics and rational explanations and plagues and guns and danger and everything else you can stuff into a thick book. Should be great, right? That’s what I thought, at least. And it certainly was intriguing. The first act of the book was really good–I was reading at a fast clip, and it was getting more and more engrossing. Then act II hits, and I stopped. Not a brick wall sort