Writing about the expanded history of the Avatar The Last Airbender really allows for the exploration of the darker parts of the established world. Continuing Yangchen’s story tells a story far more foreboding and bleaker than one would expect. The Avatar stories tend to be more focused on overt and bombastic adventures and even the … Continue reading Book Review: The Legacy of Yangchen by F.C. Lee
Tag: Young Adult
Novella Review: Defending Elysium: A Cytoverse Novella (The Skyward Series) by Brandon Sanderson
Getting back into the rhythm of book reviews again, I thought I would finish the other novella in the Cytonic series. Writing compelling stories in so few pages is a fascinating and seems like such a difficult task. The Skyward Flight novella series were a surprisingly strong and compelling set of novellas that helped to … Continue reading Novella Review: Defending Elysium: A Cytoverse Novella (The Skyward Series) by Brandon Sanderson
Novella Review: Evershore: Skyward Flight: Novella #3 by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
Continuing my adventure into understanding novellas, reading Evershore the third book in the Skyward Flight novella series finally helped me grasp the strength of novellas. While ReDawn didn’t necessarily feel like it exemplified it, Evershore really displayed how a novella could be used to further develop a supporting character without taking away from the main … Continue reading Novella Review: Evershore: Skyward Flight: Novella #3 by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
Novella Review: ReDawn: Skyward Flight: Novella #2 by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
First, before the review, I do have to make an apology. Somehow, I glossed over the fact that these novellas were written by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson. This would include the previous novella I reviewed. I am sorry but to make it clear, it would be both Sanderson and Patterson who’ve worked on these, … Continue reading Novella Review: ReDawn: Skyward Flight: Novella #2 by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
Novella Review: Sunreach: Skyward Flight: Novella #1 by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
In my curiosity to understand novellas, the most important thing I wanted to know about them was if it was still possible to tell a compelling story with far less words. But not just a compelling story, but one that was just as enjoyable as a book that might be between 300 and 400 pages … Continue reading Novella Review: Sunreach: Skyward Flight: Novella #1 by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
Book Review: Tress of the Emerald Sea: A Cosmere Novel by Brandon Sanderson
This is not a book, on paper (ironic I know), that I should have enjoyed. There’s so much absurdity and randomness to it, strange conveniences and surprising developments, honestly things that few writers could ever pull off. Yet here we have a book by Brandon Sanderson that, not only includes all these things, but does … Continue reading Book Review: Tress of the Emerald Sea: A Cosmere Novel by Brandon Sanderson
Book review: Skyward #3 – Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
It’s been quite a while since I’ve read Starsight back in 2019, but the book was pretty great but didn’t feel as strong as the first book Skyward. Part of that was because the theme shift between what book one was a fight for humanity’s survival against a brutal and unknowable alien race to book … Continue reading Book review: Skyward #3 – Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
Book Review: The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C. Lee
Another book exploring one of the past Avatars from the popular series Avatar The Last Airbender, I couldn’t help but pick it up for myself. Something that is quite interesting I hadn’t realized was that the avatar series has a unique advantage for a prequel that many prequels often don’t. Outside of Avatar Roku, we … Continue reading Book Review: The Dawn of Yangchen by F.C. Lee
Book Review: Kane Chronicles #3 – The Serpent’s Shadow by Rick Riordan
I really wanted to like this book and this series but Riordan continued the weird and strange transcript method of storytelling for this otherwise interesting and well written book. It’s such a strange thing as the writing itself was compelling and all the characters were interesting and well developed yet this one choice ruined so … Continue reading Book Review: Kane Chronicles #3 – The Serpent’s Shadow by Rick Riordan
Book Review: Harley Merlin #8 – Harley Merlin and The Challenge of Chaos by Bella Forrest
After a rather long hiatus, I thought to get back into reading and writing by continuing the Harley Merlin series. Truth be told it was far more difficult than I expected. An author typically has a planned length for how long their series would be and, as one would expect, it would feel like it … Continue reading Book Review: Harley Merlin #8 – Harley Merlin and The Challenge of Chaos by Bella Forrest
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