On the one hand, I enjoyed reading something from Maguire that was a bit different from what I'm used to. While this book has elements of (and draws attention to) Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, and stories of Jack the Ripper, it doesn't follow any of those stories the way his previous works do. On ...
This is certainly "Epic in scope" and "intimate in detail" and Douglas Smith describes what happened to the Sheremetevs and Golitsyn's families, two of Russia's grandest and oldest aristocratic families during and after the Russian Revolution. I really enjoy Russian history and have read quite a lo...
So, the Wicked sequels. The most important thing to know about them is that they weren’t planned. Wicked was written as a standalone. And then ten years passed, the musical was wildly popular, and, well, who can blame Maguire? Writers have to make a living too. And Wicked has apparently sold as many...
As the third book in a series, A Lion Among Men is a bad book: its timeline is mostly contemporaneous with the previous two books and it fails to appreciably move the overall plot forward; Liir and company from the previous book don’t even appear in this one. Thinking of it as a companion book inste...
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