A wonderful compendium of 19 short stories, written by some of the biggest names in fantasy writing, including Peter S. Beagle, Tad Williams, Gregory Maguire, and Tanith Lee, some of my personal favorites- and all centering around dragons of all types. From lands of fantasy to present day, from evil...
This is the first collection I've read in a long while that is all good or better. There isn't a stinker in the bunch! My favorites were:Jonathan Stroud's "Bob Choi's Last Job": Bob Choi goes after a dragon who is hiding in human form, eating humans, and stacking their bones neatly in the alley. D...
There were elements in this novel that were good, there were elements which were worse than your typical pulp novel. In the end the fact that it didn't really tie into anything else that I've read means it receives a mediocre 'okay' from me. The writing was...passable for what the novel was. It wasn...
Jack and Jaide are rambunctious twelve-year-old twins whose father is rarely home. Then one day he returns in a bolt of lightning, and their house is destroyed. The twins go to stay with their mysterious grandmother, who talks to her cats and can make them forget things with hot cocoa. They're no...
This book for younger readers has some things which will appeal to its target audience (particularly many scenes of muck and bugs crawling on things), but I at least bounced off the structure and main source of conflict behind the story.Jack and Jaide are twins, with a perpetually absent father and ...
This type of book has a number of conventions. They aren't universally followed, but still, I think it's fair to say they exist. One of these is that the kids should prevail through their own efforts. Or put another way, adults can't do it for them. Which leads to a problem; how to get rid of the pa...
Great big space opera. Starts off with a character put back together from his constituent atoms (and put together as a woman, the rebuilders flipped a coin and made him female, he doesn't mind that much but goes back to male). First of a three book series (with an interstitial novella from MonkeyBra...
I picked this up in my hunt for more Tamora Pierce. Her "The Dragon's Tale" turned out to be one of my favourites in the book, along with Tad Williams' "A Stark and Wormy Knight," both of which are told from the POV of the dragons themselves.As with any anthology, some stories are a hit while others...
An entertaining read, but nowhere near as brilliantly original as the Keys to the Kingdom series or as good as the other books of Garth Nix's that I've read (the Abhorsen trilogy et al.) A pretty boilerplate YA fantasy - twins discover that they have supernatural powers and are part of a group dedic...
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