Category: Review

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 […]

Title: The Blight of MuirwoodAuthor: Jeff WheelerDate Purchased: 3/7/2015Price Paid: $1.99Date Finished: 2/5/2021Rating: 3/5 There’s always a good deal of pressure on the second work of a trilogy, especially if the first was of a decent quality. Not only are there (usually) plot lines to carry forth with, but many of the characters we’ve gotten to know return for a second appearance. If you read […]

Title: The Wretched of MuirwoodAuthor: Jeff WheelerDate Purchased: 3/7/2015Price Paid: $1.99Date Finished: 1/29/2021Rating: 4/5 I started logging books on my Goodreads profile back in 2012, and did a small amount of “backfilling” my list, but really just concentrated on logging books I read from then on out. As of this moment there are 348 books that I’ve marked as “Read” and 259 of the are […]

Title: The Bible Repairman and Other StoriesAuthor: Tim PowersDate Purchased: 4/21/2014Price Paid: $1.99Date Finished: 1/24/2021Rating: 4/5 When I was a teenager I picked up a copy of The Anubis Gates from the high school library. I don’t remember exactly why I did, but I have a feeling it was a recommendation from one of the teachers at the school whose opinion I respected. No matter […]

Title: The Inner MovementAuthor: Brandt LeggDate Purchased: 3/30/2014Price Paid: $1.99Date Finished: 1/20/2021Rating: 3/5 I don’t remember reading a lot of young adult books when I was an actual young adult. A couple of minutes on Google revealed that while the genre is hundreds of years old, there wasn’t a massive explosion of titles until after Harry Potter popped onto the scene in 1997. I was […]