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The Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn is widely considered the series that launched the entire Star Wars expanded universe of novels, and with good reason. The events of this trilogy begin to take place about 5 years after events of Return of the Jedi, and we get to meet Grand Admiral Thrawn. I went into …
Continue reading Series Review: Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy – Timothy Zahn
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is a trilogy that at first glance gave me a who-dunnit vibe. I couldn't be more wrong. These books are teen romance with a dash of mystery to them. Would have preferred it the other way around but oh well. Below I've reviewed each book after reading them …
Continue reading Series Review: The Inheritance Games – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The discworld series spans 41 books and around 4 books in the science of discworld series. While the series can be read in any order, there are several books that fall into certain broad categories / series. These are generally the: Rincewind seriesWitches seriesDEATH SeriesAnkh-Morpork City Watch seriesTiffany Aching seriesIndustrial Revolution seriessome standalone books Here …
Continue reading Series Review: Discworld – The Witches series
All-Star Superman is a 12 issue series from the famous Grant Morrison and Frant Quitely. Having been a fan of Grant Morrison's Batman run I was excited to pick this up. This is probably the first standalone Superman comic I’ve read but in spite of that it seems unlikely that any other could surpass this …
Once again we’re back in the world of Jack West Jr. Couldn’t wait to pick up these books after the first three. The seventh and final book of the series released in October of last year. The fourth book took some time in coming since it was released almost 7 years after book 3. The …
Continue reading Series Review: Jack West Jr. #4, 5, 6 and 7 – Matthew Reilly
Jack West Jr. #2 - The Six Sacred Stones This is the follow up book to the Seven Deadly Wonders by Matthew Reilly. While this potentially could be read on its own, there are quite a few references to events that happened in the previous book. In fact the events of this book are a …
Continue reading Series Review: Jack West Jr. #2-3 – Matthew Reilly
This duology written by Marie Lu takes places in a dystopian future very similar to that seen in Ready Player One. Here as well we have the general populace hooked onto the use of technology that allows them to roam a virtual world. In this series this virtual space is mainly used for Warcross, a …
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