Righter of Words

You remember when I said I wasn’t confused by the family tree in the first book? Never mind. In The Hawthorne Legacy, Avery is still living in Hawthorne House after being named the heir to Tobias Hawthorne’s massive fortune, despite the dangers from both without and within. To try to establish her connection (or lack thereof) to…

I’m amused by the fact that, in the review of the first book of this duology, I said I was glad I could pick up the sequel immediately… and then proceeded to wait an entire year to actually read said sequel. Anyway, Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross picks up two weeks after the events at the end…

You’ll be pleased to know that there are just about enough dragons in this book for me! In I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle, Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (please just call him Robert) has inherited his late father’s job as dragon exterminator for the kingdom. He doesn’t like the job, as he’s…

In Neil Gaiman’s book The Ocean at the End of the Lane, a man returns to his childhood hometown after many years away. There, he visits the farm where he used to play with a friend, and suddenly remembers many unbelievable things. As a seven-year-old boy, he befriends Lettie Hempstock at the farm at the end…

In By Any Other Name by Erin Cotter, Will Hughes is a struggling player in London’s playhouses, but that’s not the only place he’s acting. His family was part of an uprising against the queen a few years ago, and he knows that if he draws too much attention to himself in the capital, he…

I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of If You’ll Have Me by Eunnie. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In If You’ll Have Me, Momo is eager to help her friends, but perhaps is a little too trusting.…

So in the wake of The Chalice of the Gods being published last week, I thought I would give my recommendation for what order is best to read Riordan’s books. By this point, he has many series in the same universe, so I can imagine that for people just getting into the books, there might be questions…

I’m ready for cooler weather, as evidenced by my current reading choices. Bring me autumn, please! In Starling House by Alix E. Harrow, we meet Opal, a young woman who’s stuck in the tiny town of Eden, scraping a living so she can get her bright younger brother into a better school. Eden is nowhere, notable…

I finally read a book that’s on the adult fiction New York Times bestseller list! Well, okay, I’ve read books that meet that criteria before, but it was usually before or at the same time they hit the list, not after seeing it listed there for months and months on end. (Also, hitting the New York…