Dies the Fire
By S.M. Sterling
I’ve always been a sucker for the history changers. The people who forged a path that changed the world. Martin Luther King comes to mind. All the way down to that darn butterfly in the Amazon that everyone is so fond of talking about. When you’ve changed the world, you’ve laid [...]
Conquistador
By S.M. Stirling
I’m going to jump right in and give you the absolutely worst part of this book now. If you go beyond that, you’ll see why I end up recommending this book. The worst part of this book is that it takes very nearly 100 pages to get into the story. [...]
Lisey’s Story
by Stephen King
If you’ve hung around this site long enough, you might have caught on to the fact that I’m a big fan of Stephen King’s work. More his early stuff than his late stuff, but that’s just my opinion. Lisey’s (prounounced lee-cee, pet name derived from lisa) story is a novel about [...]
The Bartimaeus trilogy: Ptolemy’s Gate
By Jonathan Stroud
Ptolemy’s Gate is the third of the Bartimaus trilogy and while it gives the trilogy a pretty fitting end, it was far from the best of the bunch. Unlike the first two books, the role of the Djinni Bartimaeus was significantly reduced. At least the sections of the book [...]
