Hey there! Happy new year! I’ve been quite busy over the past month or so as I’ve started a new job and the new schedule has taken some time to get used to. It’s gotten a bit better over the last week so this should be the start of a more regular weekly round-up newsletter. …
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Book Review: Lightbringer – Sara Richards
Note: I'll be trying out a new format of sorts. Feedback on whether to stick with this or not would be much appreciated. Thank you! Lightbringer is the first novel in Sara Richards' new superhero fantasy series. The story is set in the city of Ancora where super powered individuals called the Knights maintain the …
Series Review: Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy – Timothy Zahn
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 …
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Book Review: The Way of Shadows (Night Angel #1) – Brent Weeks
The Way of Shadows is the first book in Brent Weeks' Night Angel Series. We follow premier assassin Durzo Blint as he finds himself taking on an apprentice in the form of a desperate boy from the slums. Desperation, and a way to save his fellow guild rats, makes Azoth a unique prospect for Durzo, …
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Book Review: Moon Over Soho – Ben Aaronovitch
The second entry in the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch sees Peter Grant and co recovering from the aftermath of the incidents in the first book. His friend Leslie is still recovering and struggling to adjust to having her face fall off (literally). Peter while trying to maintain some form of normalcy for his …
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Book Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the coffee gets cold is a story about a cafe where, urban legend says, you can travel back in time. But there is a catch. In fact, there are several conditions that need to be followed for this time travel to work. The gist of it is that a person can travel through time …
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Series Review: The Inheritance Games – Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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 …
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Book Review: Roots and Steel – Casey White
This is the first entry into Casey White's CoreVerse series of books. As its tagline says this book is essentially a monster-hunting LitRPG. There's magic, there are monsters, there are people called hunters who, well, hunt said monsters, and there's a progression system that one usually sees in RPG games. The story follows Trellin, a …
Book Review: The Appeal – Janice Hallett
I picked up this book from Waterstones in Brussels because like so many others the cover caught my attention. The blurb further intrigued me with how the reader appears to have a part in the mystery solving. This is the first book by Janice Hallett and is in the form of an epistolary novel. This …
Book Review: Dark Matter Empire – Alex Zadeh
Dark Matter Empire by Alex Zadeh is a sci-if space opera-esque novel that starts with an alien abduction and ends with the fate of our world in the balance. The novel follows Ryan Stathis, an aeronautical engineer who is one night abducted by an alien spacecraft and transported through a wormhole to somewhere in the …
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Liminal Ramblings 