I love small conventions because I always end up with new additions to my list of things I really want to read. This was one of the books I picked up as a direct result.

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On certain rare occasions I feel the need to read a horror novel. I'm not entirely sure where that comes from, but I do enjoy old creepy horror movies a whole lot. However, when one shifts from “something went bump in the night and all the cats are hiding under the covers with me so WHAT WAS THAT?” to “um EWWWW” I find my slightly snobbish streak ( Read more... )

I generally like the “Princess going butt-stomping” narrative line and so I went and got the next installment of  Jim C. Hine's Princess series.

( Ends with a bit of a sigh )

It should be noted that some of the first fantasy stories I ever read fell quite solidly into the sword and sorcery sub-genre. I remember liking them and then starting to move towards other things. Anyway, it's been a while since I found a sword and sorcery story I truly delighted in reading and Theft of Swords reminded me of everything I love ( Read more... )

I picked Phoenix Rising
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Well, I found this particular book to be something of an ordeal. This was partially due to my non-reading workload (which is currently threatening to eat me *goes to beat it with a cricket bat* *returns*) and that the reason I rarely buy full sized hardbound anything is that lugging it around is a pain in the petunia. There were other things as ( Read more... )

This is one of those books where I have utterly no idea what possessed me to pick it up. No one explicitly recommended it to me. I don't even remember what I was thinking when I walked up to the register to pay for it. Now that I've read Paladin of Souls
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After a largely disappointing middle section, I move on to the next installment in the Year of Rogue Dragons trilogy. Oh please let this be more like the first book...

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( I hope that someone brought the warm fuzzy boots. )

Yay, I have finished the second book. It feels rather uncannily like the end of an episode of Scooby Doo.

( They finally got the band back together. )

This will be a pretty short section. Actually, at 14 chapters plus prologue and epilogue, it's a really short book. In any case, apparently the plot did have a fire lit under its tail because it did gain some momentum through this section. Spoilers away!

( Move plot! MOVE I SAY! )