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From Publishers Weekly The eighth book of Jordan's bestselling The Wheel of Time saga (A Crown of Swords, etc.) opens …
THE ART OF LOVE IS NEVER A SCIENCE
MEET DON TILLMAN, a brilliant yet socially challenged professor of genetics, …
There are times in your life when something happens after which you're never the same. …
Lovely writing. I found parts of the plot hard to connect together. The scenes sometimes felt quite disparate. I was reading this slowly over a number of months, I think this book would be better enjoyed of read over a shorter time span.
Took me a long to time you get into this book. I felt the historical story and modem story arches were connected, but not tightly coupled in a way that made me care about them. So it felt like two stories in one book.
Raymond A. Villareal: A People's History of the Vampire Uprising (Hardcover, 2018, Mulholland Books)
IN THIS AMBITIOUS AND WILDLY ORIGINAL DEBUT--PART SOCIAL-POLITICAL SATIRE, PART INTERNATIONAL MYSTERY--A NEW VIRUS TURNS …
I enjoyed the book, but found the end unsatisfying.
A new queen has usurped the throne and is leading Cenaria into disaster. The country has become a broken realm …
I enjoyed it, but was put off with the amount of repetition. It feels to me that Mr Goodkind hammers you with a theme, there is no room for the reader to be in doubt about these things. By contrast other authors leaving me speculating about the hidden layers in their work, which I find much more satisfying.
For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city's most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway …
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time …
Very enjoyable. This book moves at a slow pace, with a very long build. This allows the characters to be full bodied, and allows the world to be believable.
Very enjoyable. This book moves at a slow pace, with a very long build. This allows the characters to be full bodied, and allows the world to be believable.
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is …
