This book was a step out of my comfort zone. I’ve never really read any thrillers or murder mysteries, though I did often watch ‘Murder She Wrote’ with my mom when I was younger. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (or 7 deaths if you live outside of the USA) has certainly got that same … Read more
When I started reading Sufficiently Advanced Magic, I realized that it has been forever (if I ever did???) that I read a book in the first person. I did get used to it after a while, but it’s pretty clear I prefer third person story telling, so I feel that has influenced my opinion of … Read more
These last few years have not been kind on my reading habits. Life is racing by with so many things to do that I rarely allow myself to sit back and relax a book. In effort to crawl out of my reading slump, I recently bought a e-reader (while normally I prefer to read paper … Read more
The final novel in the Temeraire series is a worthy and high-quality close to the adventures of Laurence and his celestial dragon, even though it did not completely give me everything I wanted. A beautiful dragon The Temeraire series took hold of me years ago, when my mother-in-law gave me the first three books as … Read more
I’ve dreaded reading this novel for quite some time. Not because I thought it to be a bad book, but because—to me—it was the end of an era. I started reading the Discworld novels fifteen years ago, during one of my very first internships abroad. From that point on, no journey in my life ever … Read more
It was a few years ago that a friend of mine handed me the first book of the Rain Wild Chronicles. I had never read any of the books that Robin Hobb wrote before, but this was about dragons…so I flew right in. Now, at the end of this series, I still feel a bit mixed about … Read more
