by A.S. Hardin | Apr 8, 2022 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
“The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.” ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Sword of Destiny To date, one of the best series I’ve read is The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski. In total, the universe consists of two short story collections, followed by six...
by Cammi Woodall | Jun 18, 2021 | Fantasy, Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
The last book review I did for this blog was the Shadow and Bone trilogy by Leigh Bardugo. I decided to continue on her Grisha-verse and talk about the next books in the series, a duology called Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. Not everybody loves a story about a...
by A.S. Hardin | Apr 9, 2021 | Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
I have always enjoyed Hollywood’s black and white version of Frankenstein and the many adaptations that followed like Igor, Edward Scissorhands, and Frankenweenie. I had yet to read the story, so I hadn’t known better than to trust the popular misinterpretation that...
by Cammi Woodall | Mar 19, 2021 | Fantasy, Favorite Friday Fiction
In 1692, Good fought Evil. A man named Giles Dent faced an ancient evil, this time in the form of Lazarus Twisse. Good did not win, but it also did not lose. Dent was able to beat back the evil invading his town, but in doing so thrust the responsibility of its defeat...
by Cammi Woodall | Jan 15, 2021 | Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track, Mystery
When you find a book series you like, do you binge-read the whole thing? Or do you space it out over the months, to savor each story? I am a binge reader. I have discovered the Kate Burkholder series by Linda Castillo – twelve books so far and I have read straight...
by A.S. Hardin | Dec 11, 2020 | Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track, Uncategorized
I loved this book, not because it’s packed with action or because it’s a perfect book without flaws but because of how it made me feel. Every time Laurence climbed onto the back of Temeraire and took flight, I felt like that kid in the “how reading...
