Jasher Drake
What the actual flip!?!?!?!?! The author of this book sent me a free copy, and I gotta say, I was expecting it to be quite lame. But boy, oh boy was I wrong. The two main characters of this book are best friends, Azaroth, a obsessed wizard, and Sefalin, a prince who doesn't really want to be a prince. The comedy when they were together was so awesome, the battle scenes when they were fighting together were so cool, and I gotta say that the are probably my favorite duo out of all the books I've ever read and all the movies I've ever seen. The story-line was so simple, but somehow Leonard Mokos made it more complex and intense, with twists and turns every step of the way. Man! I still can't get over how awesome this book is! And dude! The epilogue was so funny! :'D
Len, I hope you make a sequel! Thanks heaps for the free copy!
had no clue that this was basically just an additional chronicles book! loved having the gang back together, there's some really great stuff with both kitiara and tasslehoff specifically. and that final moment in the inn of the last home?? goosebumps. fist pumps. teardrops.
raistlin's story is definitely the main focus though and it's pretty astounding how much weis lets you get into his head this time around. everything about his personal story and advancement through the mages of high sorcery was perfect... up until the actual test which was a huge anticlimactic bummer. throughout the whole dragonlance series you're told how harrowing and soul-destroying and physically devastating it was for raist, which i felt nothing of here.
perfect little book outside that ending though!
Very short and simple but I'm kinda taken back by how gripping and terrifying this story is.
found it a real real slog to get through most of this, and honestly should've probably rated it 2 stars, but storms - sanderson got me with that finale.
not a fan of how characters are treated in this book though. they're pulled from scene to scene and place to place with no real rhyme or reason or personal urgency. people are killed off without satisfying arcs or any redemption, while others never seem to face consequences for choices made in previous books.
still find the shallan personality split stuff infuriating too, and i don't understand why so much time is spent on the shallan/adolin/kaladin drama when there's not even much there to devote time to.
dalinar's backstory was eye-opening and i love how it changes how we view him as a person, but i kinda wish at least some of it was left to the imagination. we've been told time and time again about the deal he's made and the things he's lost - do we really need to see the whole scene play out at this point?
in the end though, i did enjoy the journey. seeing the radiants on the field together was worth the wait, and i'm really engaged with the questions being asked about morality and right and wrong. i hope we get more of that going forward and maybe even switch back to focusing on a core few characters rather than this ever-expanding cast we don't care that much about.
Saw this book at the library one day and dude, the cover looked absolutely awesome. So I did what anyone would do and I bought the book on my kindle and started to read it. Patrick Ness had a really cool idea for this book, it's not about ‘the chosen one' but about other people, bystanders, that we wouldn't of even known about if the book hadn't been based around their lives.
It was quirky, it was different, and in the end, it was a nice story about friendship, family and getting through stuff together. Still, it could have been a lot better.
Sick visuals, awesome monster fights, but an absolutely abysmal storyline.
Loved my girl Biollante being front and centre though!
best stormlight book by far! focuses on a small scale siege scenario and sprinkles a little courtroom drama into the mix.
love how much time is devoted to both kaladin and navani while all the other less interesting characters are pretty much resigned solely to supporting roles this time around. it was really appreciated after the previous few books felt too wide in scope and had too many story arcs to keep track of - meant it was seldom that anything actually connected or left a lasting emotional impact.
so many moments in this book truly truly wrecked me and i'm thankful the story made space for them. my biggest issue with this series boils down to the fact that the story has gotten so huge and epic and i'm glad this one went back to a bit of single location intrigue filled with all the political backstabbing i've been missing since the way of kings.
Actually really dug this! Love how it manages to expand on Monarch, closely tie the story to Hiroshima, and chuck in a few fun references like Moansta Island.
Weakest of the trilogy by far, but still has a few fun moments and memorable fights.
Definitely think I did myself a disservice by having such a big break between reading this and the previous book; I'd forgotten so many of the returning characters and plot points.
Pretty stoked John Carter and Dejah Thoris finally get to spend some time together though. What a friggin' romance. ❤️
Ha! This was actually pretty good. Well, I don't mean that it was awesome, but it was a great description of a landscape with a poetic type feel to it.
When I bought this, I originally thought it was going to be a psychological horror book or something along those lines, but what I got was not at all what I originally thought, instead of getting a horror, what I got was a book with a lot of heart, a book with valuable life lessons that even I took away from it. I highly recommend it, it may not be that exciting, but it's still definitely worth the read!
Really didn't enjoy this book and it was a chore to finish it, which books shouldn't be. The story was all over the place, the characters were really stereotypical and surprisingly it really wasn't that well written. I will say though, I am intrigued to now how the rest of the trilogy will flesh out, but I don't think I will be reading anymore. Good for you guys who found it a good read, but it really, really wasn't my cup of tea.
Woah, woah, woah! An absolute all-timer of a fantasy tale full of memorable characters, wild adventures, and a whole lot of heart.
That final battle with Huma vs. Takhisis? Might just be the coolest thing I've ever read.
Definitely going to be checking out more of Richard A. Knaak's stuff ASAP and going to be inspired by this crazy little book for a while.
this was really fun! all the raistlin and magius stuff ruled and i enjoyed seeing more of sturm, even if he was pretty underused.
my biggest issue is that this completely retcons the legend of huma books, and even totally erases kaz from existence. sad to see such well-established lore, and some of my favourite stories, completely written off like this.
great finale though, and weis and hickman's writing style really does it for me.
Cursed lycanthropes, duelling bards and political deception all against a gothic fantasy backdrop - was this made specifically for me?!
Really enjoyed this and although the writing didn't hold my attention the whole time, the flawed-yet-heroic characters and surprisingly emotional story sure did.
such a cool idea to bring together all of these iconic monsters and weapons and story beats from 60 years of the godzilla franchise and to show them all through the eyes of one character as he grows older.
the red and blues pop, spacegodzilla goes hard, and the anti megalosaurus force rules. an awesome little comic!
Who doesn't love a tragic little gothic horror?
Really dug the three-part layout of this story with the focus on different characters each time, but it did seem to lose its momentum a little bit in the middle.
Great conclusion though, and Morgoth was a super memorable villain (even if his name was directly stolen from Lord of the Rings haha).
This book was FANTASTIC! If you want to see Tasslehoff...
Be late for his wedding, ride a dragon, become friends with a woolly mammoth, be hunted down by a bounty hunter, sing sea shanties, hire a crew of gully dwarves, do a pulley job, be kidnapped by gnomes, get stuck in a huge glass jar, get transported to candy land, stop the dark queen, have dinner at an ogre's house, put out fires with water spouts or steal the dwarf queen's ring, then this book is for you!
Fun fantasy fare that works surprisingly well as a direct sequel to The Legend of Huma.
This was amazing. Even though everything we started with in Chronicles has changed and even though everyone we knew in Chronicles has moved on, it still manages to end in such a way that makes us remember the beginning. I found it simply breath-taking. It's interesting because most of the reviews I've read on this book said that its a huge letdown, that it's not worth reading and that the new character suck. I strongly disagree with them. I found that the book exceed my expectations and straight after finishing it I felt like I could read it again. We actually can see some of the original characters in this book. Glithas actually becomes very much like his father Tanis, Gerard reminds me a lot of Sturm, Palin turns into what Raistlin should have been and Dalamar turns into what Raistlin was before he redeemed himself.
I came to care for this brave new world and care for the brave new characters as well, and I actually felt tears welling up in my eyes as I reached the conclusion. Don't listen to the people who tell you not to read this, just do it. You won't be disappointed.
loved hallandren, all the crazy deity stuff and the constant political intrigue but i found both siri and vivenna infuriating, the first half of the book a chore and the finale ultimately underwhelming.
some of the last-minute character revelations felt super stupid and convenient too imo.
Imagine that there was a book so powerful that the wielder of this book could alter reality, control the weak-minded, bring back all-powerful beings from the dead, and then take over the world with those beings. That book is called the Incendium Maleficarum. The Incendium Maleficarum was once discovered by the Pharaohs of old, which they used to build the pyramids and rise up their empires, then it was passed on to the Israelites as they were freed from captivity, then it finally ended up in the ark of the covenant. After that nobody knows what happened to it, until it appears one day in a small town in the middle of no-where, and a young man named Carter Weston is tasked to retrieve it.
I really loved how this book was set out. It has five separate short stories in it, but those stories are being told to Carter by people he meets on his journey. I really liked how Carter's story still flowed really well even though there were five stories intertwined into it. The conclusion itself was awesome as well!
Another thing I really liked was how the ‘Old Ones' (Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth etc.) are actually made out to be Nephilim, which I never knew before.
For my first Cthulhu mythos book, this one was absolutely amazing, and it's for sure not going to be my last!
this book had some serious highs! love how sanderson builds up to the epic battles, specifically the big arena showdown and the whole finale in this one. but tbh the book felt pretty bloated overall.
kaladin's still my fave, but some of the earlier chapters with him and adolin and shallan always switching pov are so stormin' infuriating. i get the whole clash-of-personalities thing, but it got old real quick, especially when so many more interesting story elements were glossed over instead.
the world-building still takes my breath away however, and i found myself really falling head over heels for the interludes this time around, such a neat way to expand the wider world as the story rolls on.
Dude, this book is the eleventh Dragonlance book I have read, and I have to say that it is by far my favourite. It shows the power of friendship between two cousins and their journey through their own struggles while a huge war is taking place.
The battle scene at the end was fantastic! It felt like I was there!
I was sad to see most of the original companions go, really sad actually, but the the new characters are staring to grow on me.
I highly recommend this book, but make sure you read the 2 original trilogies and the Second Generation first!
Est Sularus oth Mithas!
