Author: Dan Cristelli

Fantasy Review
April 28, 2021

Wrath of Empire Review

Title: Wrath of Empire Author: Brian McClellan Date Purchased: 10/28/2019 Price Paid: $3.17 Date Finished: 4/11/2021 Rating: 4/5 I have always felt that the middle work in a trilogy is the one that carries most of the weight. The first work (and I’m using “work” here because I think this applies to movies as well as books) will typically benefit from a lack of expectation […]

Fantasy Review
April 9, 2021

Sins of Empire Review

Title: Sins of Empire Author: Brian McClellan Date Purchased: 8/27/2017 Price Paid: $3.17 Date Finished: 3/27/2021 Rating: 4/5 Have you seen that Game of Thrones meme that shows a drawing of a horse getting progressively worse as the seasons go on? It’s a comical representation of how the show changed (and, as many believed, got worse) as the years went by. And while I agree […]

Looking Ahead
March 26, 2021

Looking Ahead – Gods of Blood and Powder

I’m going to change the format of these looking ahead posts slightly. I still think the approach is useful, but I’m making two changes to help make these a bit more pertinent. First, I’m dropping the number convention. My original thought was that it would make it exciting when I got toward the end, but it’s just annoying. Second, I’m taking a new approach to […]

Fiction Mystery Review
March 19, 2021

Since We Fell Review

Title: Since We Fell Author: Dennis Lehane Date Purchased: 7/2/2017 Price Paid: $5.29 Date Finished: 3/16/2021 Rating: 4/5 As I work through my backlog and come here to write about the books I’ve read, I find myself looking at books in a bit of a different way than I used to. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but more of a deeper analysis into what the book is […]

Looking Ahead
March 16, 2021

Looking Ahead #18

Well, that was quick. If there’s one good thing to be said about insomnia, it’s that plowing through a book is a lot easier when you’re up all night. I don’t expect this to happen often, but I certainly made short work of my current read. Let’s jump in to the next look ahead where I’ll be updating you on the book I’m currently reading, […]

Review Science Fiction
March 15, 2021

The End of All Things Review

Title: The End of All Things Author: John Scalzi Date Purchased: 2/12/2017 Price Paid: $3.17 Date Finished: 3/14/2017 Rating: 4/5 Now that I’ve finally finished the Old Man’s War series, I’m left wondering if I would have felt the same about these books had I read them all at once. I have a recollection of loving the first book and quite enjoying the second, which […]