By now I hope you’ve read the nuanced and eloquent reviews of The Sky on Fire by Christina and Josh. This is not going to be one of those reviews, because everything they said I agree with and they said it better than I will. No, I’m here to give you a review of The …
For this bookling we began the excellent Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee with it’s first book: Jade City. This kung fu inspired urban fantasy has great worldbuilding, characters (loveable and hateable) and an extremely cool magic system. https://geeklyinc.com/no-page-unturned/NPUJadeCityFinal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS
We decide what is the way of the world. Us. People. – Uspa Whoever told the people of John Gwynne’s series The Bloodsworn Saga that the gods would stay fallen after the Guðfalla may have spoken too soon. The Hunger of the Gods, the follow-up to The Shadow of the Gods, picks up right where …
Let’s just get this out of the way first: in Red Queen, a young woman is dragged from obscurity, thrust into a deadly competition, and then embroiled in a revolution. Comparisons to The Hunger Games are inevitable and warranted. Fortunately, Red Queen riffs but doesn’t replicate. It has its own world and its own rules, which in this dystopia …