Mystic and Rider is the first in a series of fantasy novels staring a group of friends who are lead by Senneth a woman with mystical powers. Her team is composed of three other mystics and two...
I absolutely love Sharon Shinn books, her writing sytle is very unique and the characters are very dynamic and tangible. I can't sing enough of her praises
Mystic and Rider is a fantasy romance. The title tells it all: There's a mystic, and a rider, and they have a boy-meets-girl story set in a fantasy milieu. In fact, the title's a bit of a...
John Taylor is a private detective, who he works for depends on who pays him, but he was paid to find the origin of the Nightside by someone with power and must finish the task after discovering...
Simon Green has invented a nasty little piece of work called The Nightside. You will be reminded that it is called the Nightside on practically EVERY PAGE. He will not let up with repetition so get...
I know, why do you read these things just to put them down? Well, like John Taylor says every 3 pages, I live in hope. This work is no worse or better than the others before it. Its still too...
I finished reading Tinker relatively quickly for a non-romance. I guess I finished it in about 10 days but I also read a few books at the same time. I guess romantic books get read quicker because...
I'm a big fan of urban fantasy like Nevernever and Elsewhere, so I picked up Tinker at my local library and read it. From the bat, Tinker brags about being a Buffy-clone or for fans of the show...
I was really blown away by Thurman's debut, Nightlife (Cal Leandros, Book 1). I devoured it in less than a day. I read a LOT of urban fantasy with kick-butt heroines, so it was nice to get back...
I found the first book in the Leandros series to be a fun, light read--something I wouldn't mind following up with sequals, but to be honest, I started Moonshine about three months ago and I just...
The problem with these books, Moonshine and Nightlife, is the cardboard quality of the characters. They're well drawn, but well drawn stereotypes are still just that, stereotypes. I think the...
I know how this is going to sound. But I majored in comparative literature in college. I have been an avid reader all my life -- from the classics to Ann Rule and Jodi Picoult. And I must say that...
Ok, I know this book was about time travel and the crisis of epidemics, but I spent all 600 pages wondering when the author would throw a punch that would make the book worth reading. 15 rounds...
A wonderful story from a mediocre writer. In parts boring and repetitive (very!...okay, we get it, you have run out of toilet roll...) and other parts quite devastating, I would recommend it if you...
This book is just okay for me. The characters are not as engaging as other characters in Shinn's previous books. The storyline is basically about a marriage of convenience between two characters, a...
Angelica is a book with great potential - wonderful characters, great plot, adventure, and love - everything you expect from Sharon Shinn. The plot of this book technically falls prior to the...
I like to read and, therefore, have read many books in my lifetime, but I can easily say that "Archangel" is my absolute favorite book of all time. There is just something about this story and the...
First of all, this is more like romance with sci-fi overtones ...
... That being said, I loved the world Shinn built, and the religious aspect of the novel, was neat, but as other reviewers have already stated, I found the two main characters tiresome after a...
I read a lot of Sci Fi and Fantasy. I read one of Sharon Shinn's more recent works and liked it a lot. This book started out interesting. As it progressed the number of missed oppotunities began to...
I think combining these two novels within one cover was a good idea. Athyra would not have ranked high as a stand alone. I'm not quite sure why but I didn't care nearly as much for it as I have...
I absolutely loved Orca. It was really thought provoking and it added an interesting dimension to Vlad's character. In this book, you get to see the more sensitive side of Vlad the assassin. All...
in one collection - very convenient! The rest of the Taltos series is excellent, but these two books lost their way. I did not enjoy changing from Vlad's POV (he's most of the fun!) in Athyra, and...
The plot and style of The Book of Flying bring to mind Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, but without the simple grace and sense of fulfillment the latter provides. Pico is an interesting character,...
Both an imaginative fantasic odyssey and a tribute to books and to the realm of storytelling as a whole, The Book Of Flying is a unique and multi-layered tale, a complex fable.
While I enjoy the occasional fantasy novel, I have long been on the search for books that utilize fantastical elements but are more "literary" in nature. I thought I had found just such a book in...
different than the once and future king, but equally enjoyable
as i said in my title, this book is very different. if you're looking for an arthurian read with a plot, stay away. because this book has no plot. it is set just before arthur leaves for his...
So, we learn that T.H. White's ultimate design for his saga was to bring things full circle. The final book takes Arthur underground to meet with Merlyn, and some animals for a grand debate about...
The Book of Merlyn is like a lost chapter out of white's larger work, the once and future king...here King Arthur meets his tutpr Merly for the last time yo find the antidote to war....I think TH...
If you're familiar with Steven Brust, you'll enjoy the world of Vlad Taltos. They're fast moving stories complete with powerful friends and enemies, a complex world and lots of tongue-in-cheek humour.
What if The Beatles broke up before their big break? Kirwan asks the question and is answer is one that has both interesting and confounding ideas that don't play off well against each other. By...
A fictional story about the Beatles breaking up before the band actually became what they are today, conjured up thoughts of a book about the music industry and the changes that we would expect.
When the mile-long corpse of God plummets into the ocean and the angels begin to die of grief, the archangel Raphael's final act is to engage a disgraced freighter captain to tow the body to an...
My expectations were a bit too high when I bought this book. It looked like an intelligent, tongue-in-cheek, farcical tale, a what-if scenario played out with a sense of humor dosed heavily with...
What would happen if God died? Morality would lose its divine reference! Man would be able to do whatever he wants because nothing or nobody is watching him and he would have no one to fear. But...
I LOVE this book, it has many wonderful colorful pictures in it and just amazing, not sure if all the fact in it are true or not but none the less i do love it. Very informative and shipment was...
At one time, this was my favorite redwall book. It was also the first redwall book I read all of. In this book, the fearless badger lord Urthstripe the Strong leads his army of long patrol hares in...
The book of fantasy was ok... Cause brian jaques used animals as symbol's of people with many diffrent culture's and style's its ok if you totally need a reading book. So that's about it...
I picked up the book and read the back. It seemed it would be fun. I started reading it. It was boring and stupid. I got through half the book and put the REALLY DUMB book down. I guess it's...
This is a very stock -- stock, stock, stock! -- children's tale, with recycled characters and events. Reading this would be preferable to poking one's eye out with a stick if it were a rainy day...
A perfect blend of fantasy storytelling and mature themes.
You'll find this book in the Childrens section, but more in the vein of 'The secret of Nimh' or 'Watership' down, it never reads down to the age of its target audience.
I have read many, many, great books. Mossflower would totally be at the top of the list! I started reading it, and I just couldn't put it down! The plot and characters draaw you in, until you fell...
This was our family's first foray into the Redwall series, and frankly I'm a bit disturbed by all the reviews saying Mossflower is the best of the lot. If so, then we've a lot ahead of us to...
The downhill tumble started by Pillars of Creation comes to an end.
What started off as quite possibly one of the best fantasy series ever with Wizard's First Rule and continued until Faith of the Fallen has finally dwindled down to an anticlimactic end. It seemed...
I've enjoyed the Sword of Truth books. Sure, some have been better than others, but the overall experience has been fun. This book wraps the two story arcs (the overall series & the Confessor...
I ordered this book for my granddaughter, with memories of the wonderful stories of Oz beyond the Wizard of Oz. I expected it to be a reprinting of the original books, with black and white...
In this second installment of Greywalker the author is still able to present the Grey in an interesting and mysterious manner. Once more I give her Kudos for that.
So what's wrong with this book? How much time ya got. It's not that the book is bad per se it's more like it takes forever to get nowhere. It struck me that Harper has done little since the first...
This is the second book in the Greywalker series and if you enjoy urban fantasies then you will enjoy this. The story pulls you in and once there you don't want to put the book down until you find...
This book gives a great overview of world-building and the various things to consider. It covers no topics in depth, though it gives more detail than other reference guides I've seen. There is...
I will say right off the bat that this book is not for fantasy writers who consider themselves in any way experienced. It is well-written and interesting enough, but all of the information can be...
This book has very little content, just random facts that lack any sort of overall cohesion. The chapter on Africa talks only about ancient Egypt. The chapter on trade, commerce and law has...
After purchasing and collecting so many of Charles De Lint's urban fantasy books, reading Angel Of Darkness and From A Whisper To A Scream, it was hard for me to imagine Charles De Lint writing...
The book is like eating bag of tasty chips -- the first few euphoric bites entice you to devour more & more till nothing is left and when peering at bottom of the now-empty bag, you get a...
After reading all other reviews, I was eager to read this one. Now I'm left to ask myself what all the hype was about. I found the characters to be very wooden and the dialogue completely...
Despite being told that I would not enjoy this story, that it had too much romance for a romance-hater like me, I loved it. I skipped ahead from Archangel (Samaria, Book 1), because I wanted to...
In the context of the US war in Iraq, I found this story about the Jansai reprehensible. I generally love Sharon Shinn, but I was appalled by this book. The Jansai are obviously based on the arab...
I was very excited when I found this, and knowing that it was to follow the succession of Gabriel and Rachel. While these two favorite characters of mine play very small parts, it was just nice to...
I bought this book because I loved Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series. This is way different but I should have expected as much. It's a well written, very detailed book and definitely...
I have loved and quickly devoured all the Kushiel books, but this book just left me cold. It was a difficult read, not because the plot was so involved, but because it was really dull. I normally...
Jacqueline Carey had an intriguing idea when she conceived Banewreaker: What if the Lord of the Rings was told from Sauron's perspective? I have always been attracted to the bad/evil guys in movies...
The Destruction of the Books, by Mel Odom is the sequel to The Rover and continues many years later, when Wick is now the Grandmagister of the Library.
Mel Odom's "The Rover" was a fun, light fantasy peopled by the stereotypical dwarves, elves, medieval humans and hobbitlike dwellers. Its sequel, "Destruction of the Books," is very different --...
Quite possibly the greatest book I've ever read! I absolutely loved it and can't get enough of Dune now. I've already ripped through Dune Messiah (which I enjoyed just as much) and I'm half way...
Previously I had panned the Kindle Edition for bad formatting! (And believe me, that DOES take away the enjoyment of a book, no matter the content -- especially if you'd read it before, like I...
While I would regularly rate this book 5 stars, the Kindle version is very poorly edited, and formating and spelling errors occur regularly. Words with missing spaces in between them show up on...
I was looking forward to purchasing this item, but after reading L. Farster's review, I decided to do a bit of research. Like L. Farster, I discovered that The Reconciliation (Imajica, Book 2) is...
If you enjoyed the first book, then the second should be just as enjoyable. It basically continues the journey of Gentle, in his quest of finding himself, just like the rest of us! I found the...
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