Mythology/Legend – Page 4 – Looking For a Good Book

August 21, 2017

THE MOTION OF PUPPETS – Keith Donohue

I was venturing blind into new territory here. I was not familiar with author Keith Donohue and I was not sure what genre of story this was going to be, though I suspected (by the cover, mostly) it would be dark fantasy/horror. But it’s more than that, and not that at all. It’s a sad, Continue reading

Dark Fantasy/Horror, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Horror/Dark Fantasy, Mythology/Legend, Reviews

August 7, 2017

THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE – Katherine Arden

I don’t normally talk about a cover, but let’s face it … this cover art is beautiful. What it suggests is a lyrical fairy tale, and that’s precisely what we get with the story inside. Author Katherine Arden (whose very name conjures up fairy tale princesses) has written a Russian fairy tale, drawing on her Continue reading

MYTHOLOGY, ROMANCE, SF/FANTASY

4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Magic, Mythology/Legend, Reviews, Romance, SF/Fantasy

July 12, 2017

A PARTICLE OF DREAD – Sam Shepard

I love to read plays and don’t have as many opportunities to do so since the Fireside Theatre Book Club went out of business (when was that…the 1990’s?). There seems to slowly be a revival of getting plays in print for the general reading audience. It should come as no surprise to anyone who is Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, Uncategorized

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Entertainment, Mythology/Legend, Plays, Reviews, Theatre

April 10, 2017

AGE OF HEROES – James Lovegrove

Book #8 in a series? I wish I had known before I started. That is one of the problems with Advanced Reader Copies – you just don’t always know when a book is part of a series or not. I suppose in today’s book market it’s safer to assume a book IS part of a Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mythology/Legend, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

March 8, 2017

KALIFUS RISING – Alane Adams

This is Book Two in the Legends of Orkney series. Sam Baron is imprisoned by the Volgrim Witches and their leader Catriona. Sam is half (Norse) god, half witch but his powers are just starting to be revealed to him and he is concerned that he can not control the powers and he may destroy Continue reading

CHILDREN’S, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Children’s Books, Mythology/Legend, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult

December 17, 2016

KOJIKI – Keith Yatsuhashi

Angry Robot is a publisher that I find I really like. I’ll gladly read anything that they publish and nine times out of ten I will be really impressed and thrilled with the book. But when they disappoint, they do so in a big way. This one disappoints. The opening chapter drew me and I Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized, YA

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mythology/Legend, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult

October 29, 2016

NORSE MYTHOLOGY – Neil Gaiman

I have no doubt in my mind that Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology will become the go-to resource for anyone interested in Norse myths because 1) it’s Neil Gaiman and he seems to have a Midas touch with his books, 2) the next closest thing is Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda from the 12th Century so it’s Continue reading

MYTHOLOGY, SF/FANTASY, SHORT FICTION, Uncategorized

5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mythology/Legend, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Short Stories

August 2, 2016

THOR: DUELING WITH GIANTS – Keith R.A. DeCandido

I think that this book is aimed at teen readers … but I’m not quite sure. There’s a fair amount of the book that follows youthful Thor, Loki, and Sif. But it’s also dense with prose story-telling. It’s a pretty simple plot: Thor is in a battle with some trolls trying to invade Asgard when his Continue reading

ENTERTAINMENT, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, comic book superheroes, Entertainment, Mythology/Legend, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, superheroes, Young Adult

April 8, 2016

THE WOKEN GODS – Gwenda Bond

The bandwagon is moving on. Gwenda Bond’s The Woken Gods is a YA novel that fits right into the ‘this is what everyone’s reading’ category. Ancient gods rising/waking and causing havoc and just might bring about the end of everything. This could be the description of an eighth of all the YA books that have Continue reading

MYTHOLOGY, Uncategorized, YA

2 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mythology/Legend, Reviews, SF/Fantasy, Young Adult

February 8, 2016

THE COMPANIONS – R.A. Salvatore

I have been a big fan of playing Dungeons and Dragons and I have been a long-time reader of science fiction, fantasy, and what we used to call Sword & Sorcery. But for whatever reason, I have never been interested in reading any of the fantasy/sword&sorcery type books that seem directly related to dungeons and Continue reading

SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

3 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mythology/Legend, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

February 4, 2016

THE RED MAGICIAN – Lisa Goldstein

THROWBACK THURSDAY: REVIEWING A REISSUE In a small European village, a young girl named Kicsi observes how a town is forced into the modern world and forced to see the hatred in the world. A strange magician, by the name of Voros comes to town. Kicsi is fascinated by this man, a man who claims Continue reading

MYTHOLOGY, SF/FANTASY, Uncategorized

4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Mythology/Legend, Reviews, SF/Fantasy

December 24, 2015

LUTHERANISM 101 – Scot A. Kinnaman, general editor

Having grown up Lutheran but now married to a Catholic, I’ve often been asked, “Well, what do Lutherans think about that?” And like all good Lutherans, I wouldn’t have a clue. This is an amazingly concise and readable book full of history (Christian in general and Lutheran specifically) and a comprehensive explanation why Lutherans worship Continue reading

NON-FICTION, Uncategorized

4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, History, Mythology/Legend, non-fiction, Religion, Reviews