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 […]