The Subtle Knifeby Philip Pullman368pp (Hardcover)My Rating: 7.5/10Amazon Rating: 3/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.23/5Goodreads Rating: 4.18/5 The Subtle Knife is the second book in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman and continues the story begun in The Golden Compass. The series is considered young adult fantasy, although it certainly has some themes that would be better appreciated and understood by adult readers. While The Golden Compass was interesting and worth reading, I did not find it to be anything exceptional, […]

Mayer Alan Brenner wrote a series of books called The Dance of Gods published in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These books are no longer in print, but Brenner is making them available for free on his website since he feels the books fit in better with today’s popular fantasy authors than what was the norm for the genre when the series was first published. The first book, Catastrophe’s Spell, is currently available for download on Brenner’s site under […]

Last week I received a personalized copy of Midnight Tides and an autographed copy of The Bonehunters I bought from from The Signed Page, one of my favorite recent discoveries. Both are first edition hardcovers. I was psyched, especially since even though I have a few autographed books, I didn’t have any that are personalized. Authors don’t come to Maine for signings very often since it’s not a very populated area. There are still a few signed copies of both […]

The Golden Compassby Philip Pullman399pp (Paperback)My Rating: 7/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.3/5Goodreads Rating: 4.25/5 The Golden Compass (known as Northern Lights in the UK and everywhere other than the U.S. from the sounds of it) is the first book in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. I’ve had the entire trilogy for a few years now but just hadn’t read it for some reason (well, mainly because it takes less time to buy new books than it does […]

The Shades of Time and Memoryby Storm Constantine448pp (Hardcover)Rating: 9/10 The Shades of Time and Memory is the second book in the Wraeththu Histories trilogy by British science fiction and fantasy author Storm Constantine. I would not recommend reading this book (or this review) if you have not read the original Wraeththu Chronicles books and the first Wraeththu Histories book. While The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure, the first of the Wraeththu Histories, filled in some of the gaps in […]