Tag: Books

  • 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…

  • Inigo Montoya: How a Single Line Can Perfectly Capture a Character

    Inigo Montoya: How a Single Line Can Perfectly Capture a Character

    In storytelling, there are three important things you need to do to establish your characters. It doesn’t matter if it’s a book, a movie, a video game, or whatever. If you don’t do these three things, your character isn’t destined to last. They are: Give the audience their name Establish their backstory Establish their goal…

  • The Well of Ascension: The Final Empire Expands and Collapses

    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.…

  • Writer’s Diary #4: An Objective Completed

    I had two goals at the beginning of this year. Goal one: finish the rough draft of my main project, Threads of Reality. The other was to have the next batch of Energia chapters finished and ready to go. The former was my top priority, while the ladder remained something for me to do to…

  • The Final Empire: By the Cover

    Alright fellas, let’s put our thinking caps on! This one is gonna be a bit of a challenge! So, I’ve been reading the second Mistborn book, The Well of Ascension. I’ll go into more detail of my feelings on it during my review, which should be going up a week or two after this analysis…