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Read: A Princess of Landover
After almost 15 years Terry Brooks wrote a new installment of his Landover Series that started with Magic Kingdom for Sale / Sold. A Series that – back then – I liked very much. The series, or at least...
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Read: The Maker of Universes
After the imaginative Riverworld series it was only a matter of time for me picking up another Farmer novel. The World of Tiers series seems to be rather closely related as, again, there is an...
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Read: Gates of Creation
Farmer’s second World of Tiers novel, The gates of Creation, is a bit of a disappointment. Its brevity and, admittedly, its innovative ideas for a number of artificial universes / planets that do not...
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Read: Pyramids
Terry Pratchett’s novels are all just hilariously funny (at least the ones I have read so far). That is why I like to read them; especially on long trips or on the train to the office. They brighten my...
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Read: Guards! Guards!
Another lengthy trip means another Terry Pratchett novel to pass the time (at the gate and on the plane) reading. And Pratchett’s comic fantasies are exactly what the doctor recommends… to get into the...
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Read: The Ambassador's Mission
There is never too much of a good thing. And so authors tend to write sequels to their successful works. Better yet, they announce multi-volume sequels, series rather. After all, what is an effective...
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Read: Towers of Midnight
It’s the penultimate Wheel of Time book what makes this book number 13, or the second written by Sanderson after Jordan’s death. Maybe it is the nearing end or the change in authors, the pace definitely...
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Read: The Way of Shadows
I am still reading the books I bought on my last NYC trip. Is that really a year ago already? Back then, I bought complete trilogies; more like buying by weight than by numbers.The Way of the Shadows...
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Read: Shadow's Edge
Novel two in Brent Weeks’ Night Angel Trilogy continues where novel one stopped. Unfortunately the story’s plot becomes more predictable. After killing off one of the what the reader must have thought to...
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Read: Beyond the Shadows
If I did not often buy all books from a series at once (if possible) I may not have bought another Weeks novel. After finishing Beyond the Shadows I am pretty sure I will not read anything by him any...
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Read: Men at Arms
Being simple does not mean stupid.That is the lesson taught by Men at Arms. And I believe Pratchett teaches it most excellently. Of course, the novel is instructive for so many more reasons. Yet I...
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Read: A Memory of Light
Maybe I have just out-grown the Wheel of time series (like, I fear, Card’s Ender series) over the last years. Maybe it really just turned worse over time, or maybe it was the unfortunately forced...
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Read: The Rogue
Canavan’s fantasy series “Traitor Spy” takes a strange turn with its second book, “The Rogue”. I thought I was going to read about wizardry, battles, maybe diplomatic issues, and covert operations....
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Read: The Traitor Queen
The concluding novel of Trudi Canavan’s the Traitor Spy Trilogy, the Traitor Queen, is much better and more enjoyable than the predecessor The Rogue.As expected, the ‘new girl’ has become one of the...
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Read: The Magician King
I have said it before and I say it again: I become increasingly tired of novels with several time lines that in the text are interwoven, even though there would be a perfectly reasonable disjoined...
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