The capital has fallen and Alina is hiding from the Darkling once again, this time in the depths of an underground series of tunnels and caverns. Unable to summon light, her recovery from fighting the Darkling is arduous and with the Apparat looming over her shoulders at all times and trying to control all that […]
Review | Siege and Storm (The Grisha Trilogy #2) by Leigh Bardugo
2014-08-11 · by ·
Despite Alina and Mal’s efforts to flee and disappear into an unfamiliar land, far away from the Darkling’s power, they find that making a new life together is not as easy as they’d hoped. For Alina, running away from her past and what seems to be her destiny becomes futile. The Darkling has emerged from […]
Review | Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (The Reckoners #1)
2014-07-11 · by ·
As a boy, David had a terrible experience with the most powerful Epic of all: Steelheart. But through this experience, he may be the only person with a clue as to what Steelheart’s weakness is. All Epics have some sort of weakness, but Epics go to great lengths to conceal them. David hopes to join […]
A Two Minute Review: Nation by Terry Pratchett
2014-07-08 · by ·
I’ve never made a secret about my love of Terry Pratchett‘s writing. In the lottery of picking a good novel, choosing one with Pratchett’s name on the cover dramatically increases the odds of winning. Nation is no exception. Title: Nation Author: Terry Pratchett Genre: Young Adult – Fantasy Publisher: HarperCollins Release Date: October 6, 2009 Format: Audio Pages: 396 […]
Salt Lake’s Fantasy Con 2014 is a Magical Crowd Pleaser
2014-07-05 · by ·
If Salt Lake’s Fantasy Con is a sign of things to come, than fantasy fans can look forward to good times. In his book Drawing on the Power of Resonance in Writing, David Farland speculates that the fantasy genre sells as much as six times as many books at science fiction. Over the years, especially since the […]
The Wonder of Short Stories: Writers of the Future Volume 30
2014-07-02 · by ·
The thing about I like about short stories is that you don’t have to commit much to get a certain amount of satisfaction. Any novel worth reading will spend a certain portion of time introducing conflict, stringing together a plot, creating characters and relationships, and, if were in science fiction or fantasy, building a […]
The Chronicles of Prydain: For Those Of Us Still Trying To Prove Ourselves
2014-06-22 · by ·
Way back in elementary school, I started to become pretty serious about reading. Somewhere near the beginning of my time with chapter books, my mom recommended The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. I quickly devoured the excitement and adventure, and quickly moved on to other books. While I know I enjoyed the series a lot, […]
Seeds of Rebelion: Brandon Mull and the C.S.Lewis tradition
2014-06-08 · by ·
Brandon Mull doesn’t get enough credit. A few weeks ago, I attended a forum at the Salt Lake CominCon FanXperience for authors Brandon Sanderson and Brandon Mull. Both are a local (to Utah) authors, both are BYU grads, both write fantasy, both are New York Times bestselling authors, and both are at about the same […]
Review | Brotherhood of the Wolf by David Farland
2014-05-25 · by ·
Raj Ahtan has fled from Gaborn Val Orden, the prophesied and ascendant Earth King. Tricked on the field of battle by a ruse, Ahtan is far from vanquished. Bolstered by the strength, speed, stamina, charisma, and beauty of thousands of men, he moves to strike at where Gaborn is weakest, to tear down the kingdoms […]
Book Review | The Iron Jackal by Chris Wooding
2014-05-18 · by ·
Mix together the swashbuckling of The Pirates of the Caribbean, a shade of fast shooting action and espionage–on horseback–of Michael Garrison’s The Wild Wild West, and a bit of the personalities from Ocean’s 11 (pick 1960 or 2001–it doesn’t matter), and drop them all in a world with demons, magic, curses, and airships. That […]
