Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox is the sixth, and supposedly final, book in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series. At the end of the previous book, The Lost Colony, Artemis returns to Ireland three years after he left, though no time passed for him. (I wasn’t a huge fan of The Lost Colony; it just wasn’t [...]
Soul Music, part of Terry Pratchett’s extensive Discworld series, explores two basic themes: universal music through the discovery of Music With Rocks In and the Grim Reaper’s existence. An aspiring musician buys a mythical guitar when his harp is squashed by a troll. He and his newfound friends are transformed into an instant band with [...]
With this book the concepts of the The Wheel of Time world are becoming more apparent-the World of Dreams which affects the World of the Flesh also, the different ways the characters are connected to the One Power, lives relived (less focus on this in this 3rd book). Maybe this is why I think this [...]
After Moiraine’s prophetic hint at the end of The Eye of the World, we’re pretty sure that Rand is The Dragon Reborn. In Robert Jordan’s The Great Hunt, the main overarching story arc starts to really get moving. When the book starts in Shienar, it is quickly apparent that Rand is the Dragon Reborn, the [...]
Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars is a, shall we say different, take on Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland. It’s very different. Very different. This is nothing like Caroll’s decidedly odd, and not particularly interesting (in my opinion) book. This is real fantasy, not Carroll’s weird stuff. The book opens in Wonderland’s largest city, Wondertropolis, [...]
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come to pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past…” A few months [...]
“Stories never really end, even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” – Inkspell Stories never end, as Cornelia Funke says…especially when there’s a sequel. The villain Capricorn may have been defeated in Inkheart, [...]
Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart, which is the first of a trilogy oft referred to as “The Inkworld Trilogy,” is based on a novel concept, and was an interesting and very enjoyable read. It was translated from German, but the translation is excellent. In Inkheart, Meggie and her father, Mo, are on the run from a villain [...]
The His Dark Materials series is set in an alternate world, separate from ours, yet quite similar. The story starts in a part of Oxford, England, but a different Oxford than the one in our world. Overall it’s similar to the Oxford of our world’s Victorian Era, but slightly more technologically advanced, and in a [...]
It’s no secret that I’ve long been a fan of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. It was the first fantasy series I really got into, and the book that really got be going running a serious website (The Site of Requirement). The series follows the story of Harry Potter, a boy orphaned [...]
