I suppose a handy useful fact to get out of the way is that “Clay” is the name of the main character. So, this isn’t a god made of clay, but rather Clay’s god. Past that, this is the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The first thing I found out reading this is that I should read Robin McKinley’s Rose Daughter. I think I remember a friend enthusing about it at the time, but that recommendation has been lost to mists of time. Ursula[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know what you’re thinking. And no, the book isn’t about that. This isn’t a conspiracy of Arthurian legend. In this case, “Merlin” is an office title in an alternate-universe Britain (The Isles of Blest), and the conspiracy centers around[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is impossible to overstate how important this series was to me during the ’80s. If you want to understand teenage me, Star Trek, Robotech, Elfquest, and role playing games are essential knowledge. I recently picked up the Dark Horse[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The real problem with any truly special story is that doing it again is difficult. Especially if you take the same characters and find a new story for them to fit into as well as they did the first. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third “Quarters” novel is a direct sequel to Fifth Quarter, picking up all the unfinished business left behind last time. I certainly wouldn’t recommending starting here as we’re in the middle of a mess of unlikely proportions. The good[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again, Guy Gavriel Kay does not disappoint. That said, the very beginning didn’t really grab me (especially the caper on Rian’s Island). But partway through chapter 3, Blaise, our main character, gets ambushed, and I was hooked for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When you look at a book in a contemporary fantasy series, and it name drops “Mars”, and has a tripod on the cover, you have to wonder if someone’s gone insane. And the title, “of Mars” implies, well, people, on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First off, I recommend against buying the Evinity Kindle edition. While it does have the original illustrations, it also has a number of errors, and breaks up the text with tags for the original pages—breaking up paragraphs and sentences willy-nilly.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, decades upon decades later, I have finally read all of this series. Of course, I just read the first half three years ago, but I also read the books largely as they came out originally, but never got to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…