Category: Review

Mystery Review Rule Three
May 10, 2021

The Charm School Review (Rule Three)

Title: The Charm School Author: Nelson DeMille Date Purchased: 9/13/2017Price Paid: $3.17Date Finished: 5/9/2021Rating: 0/5 Two Rule Three books in a row? This doesn’t bode well for the entirety of this project. I don’t know what the end result will be, but I wasn’t anticipating having to knock out two in a row. Regardless, here we are and it’s time to take a short dive […]

Fantasy Review Rule Three
May 9, 2021

The Timekeepers’ War Review (Rule Three)

Title: The Timekeepers’ War Author: S.C. Jensen Date Purchased: 9/5/2017 Price Paid: $3.17 Date Finished: 5/1/2021 Rating: 0/5 (Rule Three) When a book fails to grab me I start to think about the reasons why. In this case, I think there were a few factors at play, and only some of them were really the book’s fault. But at the end of the day it […]

Fantasy Review
April 30, 2021

Blood of Empire Review

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]