Book Review: Ninja by Racy Li
I originally won this in the Debut A Debut Contest at Writing Aspirations for my review of Tower of Shadows by Drew Bowling–basically I was randomly picked out of a hat. I had originally thought to possible read this book for the contest, but decided to pick a ‘safer’ book due to its critical acclaim […]
Book Review: Shadowfall by James Clemens
This is by far one of the best fantasy novels I have read in a long time. Clemens’ writing style is exceptionally strong and he proves that having multiple viewpoints can be worked successfully. One of the things that makes it work is the length. There is plenty of time to establish who the characters […]
Book Review: Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
First things first, I need to make a note about my reviews. A lot of discussion has been made over my review of Tower of Shadows by Drew Bowling, much of which is disagreement. I have nothing against a disagreement, but I do find it interesting that many automatically think I must be wrong in […]
Book Review: Venus by Ben Bova
If there is one thing that I have come to expect of Ben Bova it is that he can take any fantastically unbelievable idea and make it so real that you actually think that it could happen. This is the case with Venus.Van Humphries is the last living son of Martin Humphries, having outlived his […]
Book Review: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
I have quite a lot of books that I have yet to read in my collection, and then I have some books that are classics or older books that I am reading for my literature class. So every so often I will be reading a book that is a classic or old, or just not […]
Book Review: The Tower of Shadows by Drew Bowling
This is for the Debut a Debut contest I discovered here.Every once in a while you stumble upon a great work of art within the fantasy genre. Take Eragon by Christopher Paolini for example. A young author writes a fantastic epic and well driven story, and succeeds. Not only that, Paolini wrote a sequel which, […]