Read Online: Fantasy
The Alloy of Law (2011)
I was not impressed. Sanderson, what were you thinking? Ruining that perfect Mistborn trilogy with this miserable piece of western-fantasy? I might be out of line here, but Mistborn world should have been left intact. Suddenly, I'm not very eager to read the second trilogy. Characters are semi-de...
Words of Radiance (2014)
Great continuation of the Stormlight archives. The addition of a bunch of new characters and the progression of existing ones leaves you with a lot to take in, so its ok if you read slower than a chull. The action and the immersion is wonderful and you won't be disappointed by the storyline. Has ...
The Sorceress (2009)
I felt myself losing interest through portions of this book -- yes there were new monsters attacking, but it seemed like the same plot repeated over and over again. I'm not sure how many more days I can take of the twins and Flamel facing Dee's latest challenges, using up almost all their streng...
A Memory of Light (2013)
Few times before has a book been able to delight me and make me cringe at the same time. To be fair, I'm not a fantasy aficionado. My knowledge extends to a couple of series I read when I was a younger. My wife and I completed this entire series in seven months and during this time The Wheel o...
The One and Only Ivan (2012)
This is the 2nd version of this story I've read by Katherine Applegate (as I came to this story via the picture book version she wrote: "Ivan: the Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla"). That this could really have happened breaks my heart. And yet, I'm not surprised.Beyond the tr...
The Kill Order (2012)
The "Kill Order" was a very good book in my opinion. I saw "The Maze Runner" movie back in October. I had not known about the books so I was able to go into the books and even the movie completely unknowing of anything about the storyline. I found out that this is actually the prequel book for "T...
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012)
This book is fantastic and I loved all the details in it. The plot is captivating and doesn't let you stop reading.My father has a graphic industry and he still works with this old letters and have to put them together to form an printing.I always loved what he does and with this book I saw a ano...
The Hero of Ages (2008)
I will admit, this book did not end exactly as I hoped it would - but as I've thought about it after completing it, I realized that while the ending was not entirely satisfying, it was exactly what it should be. I'll explain.Sanderson exhibited a lot of brilliance in these books. From dealing w...
The Way of Kings (2010)
Just like in Elantris, Sanderson builds a fantastically intricate universe and brings together an original, unexpected cast of characters in the Stormlight Archive. He has a light touch with scenic detail and can capture a unusual idea down on paper without slowly the plot. Odd elements of the st...
Kralların Yolu (2014)
Good story with interesting ideas. Main shortcoming is that it takes A LONG time for it to get going - if you can make it past the first 800 pages, the remaining 3 or 400 are rather enjoyable. The writing style is kind of choppy at times and the overuse of italics / emphases is kind of annoying. ...
1Q84 (2011)
Impressive for its imaginative power but entirely too long and mundane in sections. Tengo and Aomame aren't interesting enough characters to warrant 1100 pages, but Murakami does paint an impressive portrait of quotidian 1980s Japan. The allusion to Orwell isn't necessarily relevant, and the fant...
Ready Player One (2011)
I'm of two minds about this book. On the one hand, it is so utterly silly, and I really don't think that videogames from my childhood are something requiring or producing anything very deep. That's me. I played adventure on Atari too, but at times the writing is as juvenile as I was at ten, an...
A Dance with Dragons (2011)
That's right, I finally finished this behemoth.I started reading this around October of 2013 and then put it down until earlier this month. While I'm anxiously awaiting "The Winds of Winter," hopefully it doesn't come out within the next three or four months, as I have a massive backlog of "Want...
The Complete Alice (1901)
Lewis Carroll's 1871 novella, Through the Looking Glass, contains numerous allusions to Cervantes' 1605 novel, Don Quixote. Lewis Carroll uses elements from the comic masterpiece as shorthand for a certain kind of absurdist humor. Like Cervantes, Carroll creates a main character, Alice, who is ba...
The Last Olympian (2000)
In order to try to cut the head off of Kronos' approach by sea, Percy and Beckendorf, the son of Hephaestus, attempt to destroy his ship, the Princess Andromeda. However, Kronos, still possessing Luke Castellan, is not caught off guard because of a spy at Camp Half-Blood, and Beckendorf sacrifice...