After the exciting events of Queen of Shadows, with magic getting unshackled and a slew of revelations, the fifth book of this series raises the level of writing and story-telling a bar higher. SJM is not the master of world-building in this series but it gets better. Technically speaking, this book and the Tower of…
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Book review – Winter’s Heart – book 9 of the Wheel of Time series
The most anticipated reunion of all the time happens in this book with a few fireworks and three related characters getting hilarious headaches. The daughter-heir plays the Daes Dae’mar (Game of Houses) really well while dealing with the factions in her kingdom and the rulers outside of Andor. Golden-eyes forms an alliance with a nuisance…
Book review – The Heir of Fire – Book 3 of the Throne of Glass series
The third book of the Throne of Glass series is longer by hundred pages as compared to the previous books. It goes more deeply into the characters and introduces a few new ones. What I hated about this book is the lack of maps of Wendlyn and Doranelle. There is an adorable wyvern which loves…
Book review – The Wheel of Time book 8 – The Path of Daggers
“You trouble me so, Rand-al Thor. Light, sometimes I think that the Creator made you to trouble me.” And Rand-al Thor continues to trouble me! Our Dragon Reborn is getting annoyingly arrogant of his “dragon” and undefeated status and it looks like the power or the saidin is getting to him. Thank Robert Jordan for…
The plot gets dark and deep – The Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2)
The second book of the beloved Throne of Glass series was heart-wrenching, baffling and thrilling, to say the least! The Adarlan’s assassin comes into her true form in many a fight scenes and now we know, why she is feared all over the empire. The Crown Prince was just another chocolate boy in the first…
Book review – Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
For many years, I was frantically searching for a novel series similar to the Harry Potter one but was always unsuccessful in my attempts.📚A few years back, my sister got hooked to the Percy Jackson series and now, after reading two books from the same, I know why. This series is based on Greek God…
Book Recommendation – The Lies of Locke Lamora
📚 It is definitely a challenge to get back to epic/high fantasy fiction after a period of ten years. I began reading The Lies of Locke Lamora in January 2021 based on a few book recommendations by the fervent book lover @sharp_tack , but had trouble keeping track of the storyline and the “mannerisms” of…