Tag: fantasy

Filled with battles, chases, standoffs, melees, and exciting journeys, Jennifer Ivy Walker's "The Lady of the Mirrored Lake" is a magical voyage into the realm of the ancient Celts. The narrative brilliance, the sense of wonder, and the excitement are all just as present in this installment as they were in the debut of the series.

Life of a Sunset Kid is a coming of age tale of a young boy who dares to look at life with great optimism and sense of wonder despite the fact that he was living the unfortunate circumstance as he battled a degenerative muscle disease through his short life of fourteen years.

The scope of Reign by Elliot Foree is majestic, brimming with detail and ideas and teeming with characters, languages, and perspectives. Elliot Foree deftly navigates her way through a thorny and twisted tale of morality, anguish, and trauma—taking elements of fantasy...

Tomorrow's End is a pretty straightforward page-turner that mixes old-fashioned space opera and noir storytelling, with an appropriate amount of political intrigue thrown in there, and some violence for good measure.

My impressions of the book varied over the course of reading it. Of the four parts, I found the first part the least engaging and the central character rather bland. Especially the beginning, where too many characters were introduced, building of the backdrop simultaneously and establishing relationships between the characters, made it a little exhausting and confusing to read.