I’ve never made a secret about my love of Terry Pratchett‘s writing. In the lottery of picking a good novel, choosing one with Pratchett’s name on the cover dramatically increases the odds of winning. Nation is no exception. Title: Nation Author: Terry Pratchett Genre: Young Adult – Fantasy Publisher: HarperCollins Release Date: October 6, 2009 Format: Audio Pages: 396 […]
The Chronicles of Prydain: For Those Of Us Still Trying To Prove Ourselves
2014-06-22 · by ·
Way back in elementary school, I started to become pretty serious about reading. Somewhere near the beginning of my time with chapter books, my mom recommended The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. I quickly devoured the excitement and adventure, and quickly moved on to other books. While I know I enjoyed the series a lot, […]
Seeds of Rebelion: Brandon Mull and the C.S.Lewis tradition
2014-06-08 · by ·
Brandon Mull doesn’t get enough credit. A few weeks ago, I attended a forum at the Salt Lake CominCon FanXperience for authors Brandon Sanderson and Brandon Mull. Both are a local (to Utah) authors, both are BYU grads, both write fantasy, both are New York Times bestselling authors, and both are at about the same […]
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson is an exciting twist on superheroes…and supervillains [Review]
2013-10-19 · by ·
Steelheart, first in the Reckoners series, may have the broadest appeal of Brandon Sanderson’s growing variety of imaginary worlds. At a time when Marvel and DC turnout multiple blockbusters at the movie theater each year–think The Avengers, Iron Man, the Dark Knight, and Man of Steel–interest in superheroes is at an all time high and […]
Review | A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull
2013-09-19 · by ·
Exciting, clever, and perfectly suited for the twelve-year old boy in your home, A World Without Heroes is the first of three in Brandon Mull‘s Beyonder series. The Goodreads blurb for A World Without Heroes is pretty blase and underwhelming, summarizing a plot that sounds not unlike a dozen other adolescent books. A child or teen, […]
Review | Variant by Robison Wells
2013-09-12 · by ·
Reading Variant was reminiscent of a winter toboggan ride on a steep, snow covered hill. Fast, furious and short, it is only when I screech to a stop at the bottom of the hill am I able to look back and see everything that I had flown by on my haphazard downward journey. In other words, Variant […]
Review | Okay For Now by Gary Schmidt
2013-09-02 · by ·
The year’s not over yet, but Okay for Now will probably go down as the best book I will read this year, if not in the several years. I’m not lying. It’s terrific, and I hope you will read it. By the time I finished Okay for Now, I had read almost forty books this year. A […]
Review | Nightingale by David Farland
2013-08-26 · by ·
If you like sparkly vampires, this might be a good segue to more serious fantasy, without giving up all the juice of a good teen romance. If sparkly vampires make you blanch, then you have nothing to worry about. Nightingale, though occasionally dark, is an enjoyable and satisfying story. The worst thing about Nightingale, to […]
Review | Cry Havoc by Keith G. Seegmiller
2013-08-21 · by ·
Every now and then I get lucky. Someone–a publisher, an author–sends me an ARC, a beta edition of their book, or a new release, and I get to be one of the first people to experience a book, to read a new story. Cry Havoc: Book One of the Havoc Journals is just such a […]
Author Spotlight | Carol Nicolas
2013-08-17 · by ·
It’s Utah Book Month, and today were spotlighting local Utah author and blogger, Carol Nicolas. As we learned about Carol, we found we had a lot in common. Not only is Carol a BYU grad, as both Brittany and I are, but like us she’s a fan of science fiction and fantasy and enjoys quilting […]
