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In 2008, Jim Butcher published the tenth book in The Dresden Files, Small Favor. While previously Harry dealt with only one significant threat at...
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Year of the Griffin, Diana Wynne Jones’s 2000 masterpiece, tackles several issues. But, she ties them all together through her critique of academia. Jones...
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My last two reviews focused on individual characters. Now, with Butcher’s 2007 White Night, the series reclaims its origins with an ensemble cast. To make...
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For some people, May and June are the season to watch Game of Thrones. However, for others, May and June are the season of...
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With Proven Guilty, Butcher continues to weave together an intricate plot. This article, like last time, focuses mostly on secondary characters, not Harry. But...
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So, here we are, caught up to Pierce’s writing after twenty months of reviews. Tempests and Slaughter, published by Tamora Pierce in 2018, tells...
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I got the chance to read Jim Butcher’s Brief Cases, a collection of Dresden Files short stories. Before one story he mentioned that Dead...
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Here we are, at the second part of Tortall and Other Lands, a collection of short stories by Tamora Pierce. But now we’re not...
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Blood Rites does so many things right, but also does several things wrong. Don’t get me wrong, Jim Butcher’s writing in 2004 is a decided improvement...
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Tortall and Other Lands fills in some of the gaps that Pierce left in her books. Published in 2011, Pierce collected six short stories...
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On every single level Death Masks delivers. While I had an overall glowing review of the previous novel in Jim Butcher’s The Dresden Files,...
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When I finished reading Mastiff for the first time, I regretted not reading Tamora Pierce’s Beka Cooper trilogy sooner. Published in 2011, it brings...