Last week I talked about Brandon Sanderson’s awesome book Warbreaker. This week I address another stand alone novel by Sanderson: Elantris. Elantris was his debut onto the science-fiction novel scene and it is a great opening novel. The story is superbly written and has a wonderful plot that deals with religion, political subterfuge, and of course,
Warbreaker is a stand alone fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson, who you may know as the author finishing The Wheel of Time series started by Robert Jordan. That is where I first saw Sanderson’s work, and I immediately fell in love with his writing. I started devouring his books, from his first fantasy novel, Elantris, to
I love vampire fiction. I am enchanted by the mythos that invariably surrounds these denizens of the night, and, in my opinion, the best part about the mythos is that it changes from author to author. Vampires are intrinsically different in each story, but still retain certain distinguishing features. Jasper Kent’s fantastic vampire novel Twelve
In this fast paced sequel to Mira Grant’s amazing post-apocalyptic zombie thriller Feed, we continue the story of the crew of “The End Times,” faced with new developments. This amazing sequel picks up the plot where the first let off and delivers. From new intrigue and plot twists to the ever changing and evolving threat
Everyone loves a good zombie story; it’s basically human nature. It seems that there is some type of subconscious desire to experience and understand what happens when humanity loses itself and becomes animalistic and base. Coinciding with this is the desire to see people overcome their baseness, their personal zombies. But what happens when zombies
The Harry Potter series has had an enormous influence on people throughout the world, especially for those in their late teens and twenties. After ten years of movies and thirteen years of the books, the final page in the Harry Potter epic has been turned with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: