Advantages: So much facination Disadvantages: Sometimes can be confusing
This is another excellent book wrtten by the brilliant author Garth Nix. It is such a fantasy book that at some points it is confusing because the heros in the book are getting attacked by something called "nothing". However don't read this book until you ...
Advantages: You experience what the hero experiences in the book Disadvantages: You have to wait for the next book to see what happens
Who says children's books are only for children?
Brilliantly and ingeniously written, and follows fluidly from the previous books in the series. Wonderfully full of action and suspense injected with comical statements to add to the twist. The plot is i ...
Advantages: An entertaining new first fantasy novel. Disadvantages: Will not be to everybodies taste.
This is a new first novel and the first of a new fantasy series by Naomi Novik.
Plot synopsis.
In the year 1805 two warships are fighting it out in the North Atlantic somewhere to the west of Madeira. The French ship has been boarded by the British one ...
Advantages: a new twist to dragons, adventure, quick read, fun Disadvantages: shallow characters, not complet world-building
This is one of the best dragon novels I've read for a long time. It's fun and has a distinct adventure feel to it even though it not exactly fast paced. The dragons themselves are intriguing as is their relationship to their human handlers. As far as I ca ...
Advantages: It's got Dragons and Napoleon all in the same book!!!!! Disadvantages: I'm not sure it will not be for all tastes.
I might seem a little effusive with the title of this review but it really does have two of my favourite subjects in it. I'm a massive history buff and I love stories with Dragons in. So when a novel comes long that's based on the Napoleonic Wars and h ...
