I hardly remember my views of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy the first time I read it in high school, but this time I greatly enjoyed it. Gotta love a historical fiction with romance, adventure, and a mysterious figure in disguise. The characters are excellent. Marguerite is a good protagonist, clever and brave, if a …
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Book Review | The Return of the King
Aaaand I'm back with the final installment in my ramblings about The Lord of the Rings! Let's do this. So The Return of the King picks up—as you might imagine—where The Two Towers left off. Aragorn, Gandalf, Legolas, Gimli Merry, Pippin, and their allies from Rohan head for Gondor, where trouble brews on the horizon. …
Book Review | The Two Towers (SPOILERS)
I'm back with more Middle-Earth fangirling! Let's do this. (Again, as with my first LOTR review, this is also a review of the audio by Rob Inglis.) Also, there are... I guess, spoilers... in this review, both for this and also for the first book, The Fellowship of the Ring. If you somehow haven't read …
Book Review | The Fellowship of the Ring
I first read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings years ago, after I discovered the films. That was probably more than a decade ago (which sounds strange to say!), and this summer I finally picked them for a second time. Well, I say "picked them up." That implies I used my eyes to read …
Book Review | 9 From the Nine Worlds (ARC)
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 …
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