Category: Fantasy

Title: Blood of Empire Author: Brian McClellan Date Purchased: 10/8/2020Price Paid: $5.29Date Finished: 4/26/2021Rating: 4/5 One of the most interesting developments from this project is that I’m starting to dive more into why I like the books that I do. I’m relatively easy to entertain, so it’s not like there’s a high bar to surpass, but it’s been interesting to really think about what sets […]

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 […]

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 […]

Title: Dragon of Ash & StarsAuthor: H. Leighton DicksonDate Purchased: 8/14/2016Price Paid: $0.00Date Finished: 2/25/2021Rating: 3/5 I don’t always remember why I purchased a book, and I don’t specifically remember with this one either. However, when I read the summary prior to diving in I thought that it sounded like a neat concept. A story about a dragon, told from the dragon’s perspective, in an […]

Title: The Scourge of MuirwoodAuthor: Jeff WheelerDate Purchased: 3/7/2015Price Paid: $1.99Date Finished: 2/11/21Rating: 1/5 Back when our book club was a thing, we had discussions about the ratings bias that occurs with a series of books. In most cases, you’ll see progressively higher ratings for each book as the series progresses. This makes a lot of sense when you consider the readership: the majority will […]