I have been a fan of Travis Baldree ever since I heard his narration of Will Wight's Cradle series as well as TurtleMe's Beginning after the End series. When I found out he had his own book out, and it was a cozy fantasy, I just had to add it to my TBR. While it …
Continue reading Book Review: Legends and Lattes – Travis Baldree
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 …
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, …
Continue reading Book Review: The Way of Shadows (Night Angel #1) – Brent Weeks
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 …
Continue reading Book Review: Moon Over Soho – Ben Aaronovitch
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 …
Continue reading Book Review: Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Book Review: Dark Matter Empire – Alex Zadeh
Rivers of London is the first book in the Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. It’s an urban fantasy set in and around, you guessed it, London. It follows Peter Grant, one of the local constabulary who discovers that he has some form of magical ability when he finds himself one …
Continue reading Book Review: Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch
I first discovered this book in college when "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" show was all the rage but like so many others it languished on my TBR pile for quite a while. I don't know what prompted me to pick up this book recently but I'm so glad I did. Heir to the Empire …
Continue reading Book Review: Star Wars: Heir to the Empire – Timothy Zahn
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
The new Thor movie “Thor: Love and Thunder” introduced the character of Gorr to the MCU. While this portrayal by Christian Bale was different from the Gorr in the comics, this didn’t come as much of a surprise since the MCU is a different timeline as compared to the comic variant. That being said when …
Continue reading Book Review: Thor – The Saga of Gorr the God Butcher – Jason Aaron
I recently read the first book in the Gray Man series by Mark Greaney after I saw the trailer for the upcoming netflix movie of the same name. You can find the review for the first book here. This will be a brief review for the rest of the series (a total of 11 books …
Continue reading Series Review: The Gray Man Series(#2-11) – Mark Greaney
I stumbled upon Drew Hayes when I was looking for a superhero fix and had heard about his series superpowereds. While checking on goodreads I stumbled upon this other series called ‘Fred the vampire accountant’ series. I have to say that did make me chuckle a bit and the first book’s title, ‘The Utterly Uninteresting …
Continue reading Series Review: Fred, the Vampire Accountant – Drew Hayes
Spy x Family is a manga that I didn’t know I needed. Set in a fictional world where a tumultuous peace exists between the rival nations of Westalis and Ostania, a Westalis spy is tasked with infiltrating and spying on an Ostanian leader. Unfortunately, the target is sort of a recluse who only ever makes …
Another book I picked up because of a trailer seen online. The Terminal List is an upcoming show on amazon prime video starring Chris Pratt and, of course, its based off a book. Like my earlier review of The Gray Man, Terminal List is another book that a lot of action fans will love. The …
I watched the trailer for the movie 'The Gray Man' on youtube the other day and I wondered if this was based off a book. A quick google search gave me the answer and I soon found myself reading the novel of the same name. The book is the first in a series of novels …
This has been on my TBR for a while now. I got thrown into the LitRPG scene I think about a year ago with Will Wight's Cradle Series. I remember devouring those 9 books (at the time) over a period of 3 weeks. I'll upload a review of that sometime in the future. I followed …
Continue reading Series Review: He who fights with Monsters – Shirtaloon
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 …