UNBRIDLED TRUTH

Rating: C Length: 458 pages, standard paperback font size, larger than standard paperback page size I don't have a grudge against British fantasy authors. I'm sure that people who know me well would back me up in how much the opposite of racist I am. And yet, there just seems to be something about the famous fantasy fiction that comes from the UK that just doesn't click with me. It's not that I don't appreciate how transformative Tolkien was in the genre by divorcing it f

Rating: D+ Length: 1252 pages, standard paperback page size/font Here's another Brandon Sanderson book, and sadly, my opinion of his work continues to erode as I read more of his novels. It's not that I want to disparage the guy. I'd much rather finish a long book feeling like it was a great story than that it was a huge block of my life that I wasted. I don't like being negative, but if the criticism is warranted, I'm not going to hold back on it. The structure of this bo

Rating: B overall, B (Soul Hunter)/B+ (Blood Reaver)/C+ (Void Stalker) individually Length: 942 pages, slightly larger than standard paperback page size with slightly smaller than standard font I know that I'd previously said I was going to review the Dark Eldar omnibus, but I got caught up in reading this instead (along with other events in my personal life that were frankly more worthwhile than writing a review for such a thoroughly mediocre product), so I'm just going to s

Rating: C+ Length: 225 pages This was a stark change from the sort of books that I usually read, but it got to jump ahead of my queue on account of being suggested to me by a friend. I didn't know what to expect going into it, but the premise of a book about someone reading a manuscript sent blindly to a literary agent (with said manuscript also being presented in the book) was interesting enough to get me started, and the actual content was good enough to keep me going. Gr

Length: Approximately 131,000 words Oh man, this book. I'm not going to say too much about it here because I'd keep gushing for hours started on it. There's a lot of sentimental history behind it that I don't even know where to really begin to get into it. Back when I was writing it, I was going through some significant health issues. Because of that, I was on some prescription cocktails, the side effects of which included depression and mild psychosis (interesting side n

Length: Approximately 103,000 words I've been working towards this for a long while, so it is with great pleasure that I present my first ebook. Since it's my own content, I won't be reviewing it in quite the same way that I do the works of others. I'll avoid giving it a letter grade for obvious reasons, but aside from that, I also want to talk about what makes it different from other books I've read. In the course of getting to that, though, let's go through some of the ty

Rating: F- Length: 354 pages, standard paperback font size, larger than standard paperback page size During the bookstore visit that I’d mentioned in my review of Ravenor, I took some time to tour the bargain bins and ended up with this book, too. Now, modern day thrillers aren’t a genre that I have much experience with, but a quick bit of searching yielded a cavalcade of high reviews, so I decided to take a chance on it. If that line of reasoning sounds familiar, it’s bec

Rating: A- Length: 366 pages, standard paperback font, slightly larger than standard paperback page size I happened to find myself in a bookstore one day (yes, physical bookstores still exist, shockingly enough), and my wanderings took me by their collection of Warhammer-based books. Most of the WH40K books I've read focused on Space Marines (of both standard and Chaos flavors), with the exceptions being the Ciaphas Cain series, but I'd heard a lot of good things about Dan A

Rating: B+ Length: 301 pages, standard paperback page size/font Up next for this series is the book focused on Nature. This was originally the end of the series, before its success lead to Anthony writing another three books, and it shows, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's dive right in. I'd joked a few times in the previous reviews that everything of importance that happens in this series revolves around the Kaftan family, and that gets taken to its logical conclusion

Rating: B Length: 281 pages, standard paperback page size/font I'm a bit late with this review because I've been wrapped up in taking care of some personal matters since finishing reading the book, but let's go. In an interesting break from the trend that this series had been showing, this one was actually shorter than the previous entry. In fact, it's the shortest book of the series so far. It also happens to have been the best book of the series so far, too. While I'm n