I'm so glad that JK Rowling is back to writing children's stories. (Tried the Robert Galbraith stuff, and... no. Way too gratuitous in almost every way.) One of the things I love about Rowling's style is how effortless and yet complex her characterization is. She's a master of showing, not ...
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I'm so glad I continued the series! This was the first one that I felt I could give an unqualified 5-stars. All the relationship crap was out of the way (usually I love romance, but it's not these authors' strong suit) and the annoying women didn't really play a huge role, which was good. The ...
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This series is such a study in contrasts thus far. On one hand, the portrayal of the acceleration toward Armageddon is gripping. I raced through to the end, engrossed in how Rayford's and Buck's lives become increasingly intertwined with that of Antichrist. I was fascinated with the portrayal of the ...
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Any good series should up the stakes in its final installment, and this one certainly did. Elisa is a sorcerer queen who doesn't yet know how to wield the magic of the Godstone put in her navel by God on her naming day, but her enemies, the Inviernos, seem to have purposes for her of their own. They ...
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My mom read this to me when I was probably a pre-teen. As I recall, we didn't finish the series, though I think we read perhaps four or five of them. They came back to my attention recently as I listened to a YouTube series on the Book of Revelation by Chuck Missler, and he mentioned that he knew ...
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This is one of those rare books where the sequel is better than the first! I almost didn't decide to read on in this trilogy, because my favorite character in "The Girl of Fire and Thorns" died about 75% of the way through. I didn't know if I cared enough about the rest of the characters ...
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