Cinder – Melissa Meyer

The Lunar Chronicles #1 – a Cinderella inspired sci-fi. 4/5 Stars. The prose needs a lot of work. Spoilers to follow, of course. Overall, I really enjoyed this novel. I look forward to continuing the series, eventually. (I’m going alphabetically so it’s not time yet.) Cinder is a cyborg in New Beijing in the distant

And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie

After I read The Murder on the Orient Express, I figured I should read some more books by the renowned Dame Agatha Christie. First up is And Then There Were None, hence the title. This the first book of 2021 that I started and finished. Rhythm of War was started in November and finished in

Rhythm of War – A Review, sorta.

This post contains SPOILERS for Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson. Book 4 of the Stormlight Archives. This isn’t going to a full on review. There is just so much to cover and not a lot of time for something like that. If you’re interested in that then I suggest YouTube. There are lots of

Murderbot Diaries

I posted a review for All Systems Red, the first novella of this series, already. I’ve since been sort of binge reading the rest. I wanted to finish it all before I wrote another review, doing it all at once. This series is so fascinating. It has an over arching storyline covering 4 novellas and

Dawnshard Review

by Brandon Sanderson Dawnshard is the new novella in The Stormlight Archive, occuring 3 months after the events in Oathbringer. It follows along Rysn, a Thaylen merchant we saw before during interludes, and Lopen, the once one-armed Herdazian now Radiant, on their adventure to discover an Oathgate on the mysterious  island Aimia. I probably wouldn’t

All Systems Red

by Martha Wells The Murderbot Diaries sweeping 4 novella and 1 full novel, is a sci-fi series about an artificial construct (meaning robot with organic parts, particularly a Security Unit (Or Sec Unit), who hacked his system to become independent and calls himself Murderbot. He is contracted to a group of scientists for a surveying

His Majesty’s Dragon

by Naomi Novik ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Published in 2006 as Temeraire in the UK, the US title changed to His Majesty’s Dragon. An alternate history set during the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), intelligent and sapient dragons (like many portrayals of dragons) are used in aerial warfare. This first book of 9 describes how Captain William Laurence of the

Fantasy I’ve Read and Fantasy I Want to Read

My favorite genre is fantasy. I like all types of fantasy, but high epic adult is best to me. I first started reading fantasy with Harry Potter, which is YA, when I was in sixth grade. My older brother (by 7 years) has many, many, many fantasy books that I borrowed as I grew up.