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I’m on a huge Riordan kick the last few days, but… I don’t particularly care. I really love him, okay? It just happened that all these reviews got posted back-to-back. There will be different authors soon, I promise. Anyway. I got an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of 9 From the Nine Worlds. As this means the…
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I first read The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan in May 2018, and this review was originally posted on my Goodreads account then. Some minor edits have been made to this review The second installment in Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard is just as enjoyable as the first book! The plot is fun…
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I first read The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan in April 2018, and this review was originally posted on my Goodreads account then. Some minor edits have been made to this review. The Sword of Summer, the first book of Riordan’s new series, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, is so much fun! The…
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I got an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Storm Runner. As this means the version I read is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In the newest publication by imprint Rick Riordan Presents, J. C. Cervantes’ book The Storm Runner, young New Mexico teen…
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I first read The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton in June 2018, and this review was originally posted on my Goodreads account then. Some minor edits have been made to this review. (I got an advance reader’s copy of this, as when I read it, it had not been released in the US yet.…
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I first read Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly in May 2018, though I am just now getting to writing up a review! Sheesh! As you miiiiiight have heard, this book is excellent. It’s a fascinating, well-written account of some of the most influential figures (see what I did there?) of the formative days of NASA. Especially during such an…
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I first read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson in June 2018, though I’m just now writing up the review for it… oops. This is an enjoyable collection of short stories, though the best and most memorable one is without a doubt the titular “Jekyll and Hyde.”…
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I’d been wanting to read this graphic novel version of the classic story by Mary Shelley for ages, and luckily I got it as a birthday present this year! And overall I was not disappointed; Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein is a marvelous interpretation. Grimly uses the original text of the novel (the 1818 version, which differs in…
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I first read Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi in April 2018, and this review was originally posted on my Goodreads account then. Some edits and expansions have been made to this review. This book is similar to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and other books by Rick Riordan — by…
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I first read The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke in March 2018, and this review was originally posted on my Goodreads account then. Some minor edits have been made to this review. To begin with, The Ladies of Grace Adieu is not as good as Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, but is an enjoyable…