2018: A Year Well-Lived?
Retrospective time. Inventory-taking and all that. So, 2018 was wild. I don’t think I’d be making an overstatement to say it has been the best year of my life thus…
Category: Reviews
Book Review: ‘The Republic of Thieves’ by Scott Lynch
Subtle and Sublime Scott Lynch is the man. The Lies of Locke Lamora was one of my favorite reads last year, and the subsequent Red Seas Under Red Skies was…
Book Review: ‘Prince of Thorns’ by Mark Lawrence
Grit and Determination Mark Lawrence’s The Prince of Thorns, the first installment in The Broken Empire trilogy, took several false starts before I got through it. The first chapter was gritty, and…
Book Review: ‘Reaper Man’ by Terry Pratchett
Light and Ready to Go A light read is good for the soul from time to time. My brain gets overworked, and can get caught up in this or that,…
Book Review: ‘Oathbringer’ by Brandon Sanderson
Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson was a behemoth. My edition was an eye-watering 1,400-page sweltering hunk of 1s and 0s (it was an epub version, that is to say). After finishing…