It’s rare for me to visit Europe twice in one summer, but this has been a remarkable year. Following my trip in May to London and Paris, I returned to Italy earlier this month, starting the trip in one of my favorite cities: Rome. I love Rome. Between The Key to the Abyss and The…
Moving to the third book on my overdue review list brings me to Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb. I enjoyed this coming-of-age story about a noble bastard training to become a royal assassin. It’s a well-paced, touching story that sets up a trilogy of novels. The story is set in the fictional medieval world of…
Next on my overdue book review list is Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton. This is one of the novels published after his passing, and, like many of those works, it feels less finished and polished than his more famous books. But it’s an interesting addition to his historical fiction and a prelude of sorts to…
Now that Merlin Reborn is safely out in the world, I am trying to catch up on reviews of books I’ve finished over the past six months. First up is Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie. As its title suggests, it’s a story about revenge. And as revenge stories go, this one is among the…
Merlin Reborn, the final chapter of the Avalon Arc, has arrived, and the fate of Maugis, Bradamante, Turpin, and Roland will be decided. A prophet awakens. A demon rises. And one paladin stands between them. Three centuries before Charlemagne’s reign, Merlin foresaw a king who would lift Europe from the Dark Ages. But a demon…
The Sorceress of Avalon is now live, and I’m excited to finally share this next chapter of the journey. For those who began with The Fae Dealings, this is where the story continues. Maugis d’Aygremont and his fellow paladins—Roland, Bradamante, and Turpin—venture into the heart of Avalon on a quest to steal a weapon older…
The wait is over. The Sorceress of Avalon — the sequel to The Fae Dealings — is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Releasing March 25. It continues The Avalon Arc, with The Fae Dealings as Book One and Hela’s Bane serving as a standalone prequel. Some secrets of the Fae were never meant to…
On my last trip to Africa, I finished the book I had been reading before my first connecting flight, so I had to dig into my Kindle library to find a new read. That was when I stumbled upon the Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed. It has probably been in my library…
The holidays set me considerably behind on posting book reviews, so I am playing catch-up. My first of three belated reviews is Emperor of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. Emperor of Thorns concludes Lawrence’s The Broken Empire trilogy, a series that has grown stronger with each installment. The series is set in a post-apocalyptic Earth that,…
I’ve been spending time lately in Mark Lawrence’s Broken Empire, and perhaps my favorite sojourn to date was The Red Queen’s War Book 2, The Liar’s Key. The “Liar” in question is the god Loki, whom we meet in an intriguing prologue set deep in the past inside a Silo-like facility where survivors of a…
I finally got around to reading King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence, the second book in his Broken Empire trilogy that began with Prince of Thorns. In the first book, the protagonist Jorg Ancrath was challenging to root for. He was a genuinely evil character, redeemed only slightly by the fact that his enemies were…