Category: How’s This Book?
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Murder By Other Means: Visible Improvement
Back when I first started reviewing books, one of the first I touched on was a little murder mystery called The Dispatcher. I praised it for it’s unique premise but found the actual execution of it to be pretty disappointing. After I wrote that review, I forgot about it, banishing it to the darkest recesses…
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The Well of Ascension: The Final Empire Expands and Collapses
Which problem seems bigger to you? Marriage troubles? A trio of different armies sieging your hometown? If you answered the former, than you are correct. Mistborn: The Well of Ascension is an excellent sequel. It expands on the story and characters established in the first book wonderfully while introducing new characters that compliment them perfectly.…
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The Time of Contempt: The Blood of Elves Part 2
I’m starting to think that this is another Lord of the Rings situation, where all the books were originally supposed to be one, bigger book. I’ll need to look into that later. After I finish reviewing this one. Picking up some time after ‘The Blood of Elves’, this book continues the tale of Geralt, Yennefer,…
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The Magician’s Nephew: Narnia’s First Day. Literally.
The Chronicles of Narnia is one of those series that I’ve known about for… well, my entire life, basically. C.S. Lewis is an author I’ve been passingly familiar with for many years now. Yet, for some reason, I’ve never actually read any of his works. I’ve seen all the Narnia movies, but that was all…
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Jurassic Park: A Book or a Movie Script?
The Jurassic Park franchise is a strange one. At this point, there have been five movies, with a sixth on the way, but only one of them has been widely considered any good. Yet all of these films have been massively successful. So much so that people often forget the book that started it all.…
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