Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson This is the fourth book in the Stormlight Archive series, and like the others, is as hefty a book as one can expect from Brandon Sanderson. Dalinar has a minor plotline trying to win a war in somewhere or another, diplomating with the other kings and at one point, …
Tag: steampunk
Aug 20
Book Review: The Silvered
The Silvered by Tanya Huff This has all the typical paranormal romance/urban fantasy tropes set in a Victorian technology, high-fantasy world. It has sexy werewolves and mages, hot air balloons and cannons and muskets. At times it felt like a regency romance, with the status-mad mother of the female heroine and the description of the …
Aug 06
Book Review: The Night Circus
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern This was exactly the book I needed at exactly the right time. I’d been in a reading funk, not wanting to read anything new and too tired of dry stuff. I needed something fun and beautiful, and this delivered. This is a very sensual book, full of details and extravagant …
Jun 26
Book Review: Emerald Green
Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier This book nicely ends a very well done YA trilogy that you should read if you like time travel, secret societies, steampunk-ish fantasy, or cute YA romances. In this novel, the heroine figures out one of the secrets that I figured out in the first book, and the hero and …
Jun 19
Book Review: Sapphire Blue
Sapphire Blue by Kerstin Gier This is the second book in a trilogy of what is shaping up to be a very, very good YA fantasy. Or is it sci fi? (timetravel) or is it steampunk (mystical machines.) Any way you categorize it, it’s delightful. Gwen is an ordinary teenage English girl, except for her …