The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker I liked this book so much that I’m going to buy a copy of it and make my favorite girls read it. In fact, I may read it a second time, just to glean some more information out of it. …
Category: Book Review
Sep 18
Book Review: The Magician King
The Magician King by Lev Grossman I have mixed feelings about this book. In some ways it’s a stupendous literary achievement. In other ways, it’s a thought problem of what would happen in real life if you min-maxed to get intelligence modifiers by using charisma as a dump stat. Or, to clarify for those of …
Sep 16
Book Review: The Sharing Knife, Horizon (#4)
Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold This is the fourth book of the series, and the conclusion. Really for truly the conclusion, which gets it big points in my ledger. As a whole I think this series is well worth reading. While the worldbuilding wasn’t vastly creative, it was different enough that it didn’t bore me. …
Sep 11
Book Review: The Sharing Knife, Passage (3)
Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold So far I think this is the least solid novel in this series. While Bujold does a great job of integrating back story and world-building into the story, this is a bad novel to start with in the series because if you haven’t become invested in the characters by following …
Sep 07
Book Review: The Sharing Knife, Legacy (2)
Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold This is a second in a series, but it differs greatly from the first novel in its setting. The first novel dealt with Dag and Fawn in farmer territory, trying to make peace with her family and reconcile them to their relationship. This novel deals with his family, and his …