I like Galland's writing: not too showy, a light touch, a zippy plotline. And a romance with a dog is appealing. But this book made me work for my pleasure. The narrator, Rory, is charming as hell, but also disorganized, and impulsive. So he's too much like me to let me like him, despite his charm. ...
After discovering why magic died out in 1951, governments all over the world are trying to bring it back to their own advantage. Not to be left behind, the American government gets together a rag tag bunch of people to work on the problem. They succeed but find out that manipulating time isn't as ea...
Series: N/A Publisher: William Morrow (2017) Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Could have been great, but it lacked focus in a big way. We were explained all the science but not the magic. Also, I felt like I was reading the notes of the entire backstory. There are things that don't need to be th...
This book started out great. I'm not normally one for time travel, but this had a bit of magic and mystery and seemed to work. The characters were well written and funny and the story flowed. Flowed untill part 3. I think over 200 pages of memos, emails and other such stuff took away from the book a...
This was the most fun I've had with an arc so far, and I had initially given it full marks despite some wavering issues I had with the pacing, but then a reviewer brought up some troubling gender problems, that when lined up like that are hard to deny. I still really liked it, but some things can't ...
Everything changes for Rory O’Connor the day his funding is pulled for his position as guest lecturer at the Boston Art Museum. To begin with, he immediately starts dating his boss, Sara. Their whirlwind romance develops into something serious pretty quickly, even if Rory doesn’t understand Sara’s A...
This third "book" in the Foreworld Saga follows in the same vein as its predecessors. There's a short story (Seer) up front which I quickly got bored with and skimmed (it was yet more backstory on one of the characters). After that, the conflicts against the Mongol invaders, within the Mongol Imperi...
Book one of the Mongoliad ended on a cliffhanger with several characters in imminent peril and all of its story lines left twisting in the wind. Instead of picking up where book one left off, after a half-decent but forgettable short story (Dreamer), book two gives readers a snarky middle finger by ...
I've never read Othello, not sure how I dodged it through the years. Now I have to read it to see the flip side of this intricate tale. Very well done, a pleasure to read.
I am happy to admit that I am a history nerd. I love reading about it, seeing it, learning about it, and if I spot something that is set in Wales, I'll happily pounce on it. Especially if it is about the medieval (c. 500-1500 BCE) period of Welsh history.The Fool's Tale is set in the late twelfth ce...
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