Cav's Place

At times the writing itself makes me feel less bad about my own, but it reads quickly enough and it’s quite decent if you don’t expect too much from it. Admittedly, the action is largely an excuse to get the reader to the final chapter, but at least it makes a point of the need […]

Though this time it’s presented as a proper book, the structure still has something of a short story feel to it, jumping to certain largely self-contained scenes and playing them out. They’re connected and it creates a story from them, but it’s not quite right and there’s still little actual world building, despite the author […]

I generally stay away from short stories, not to mention fairy tales, and this is essentially a collection of short stories that are at least in part inspired by well-known fairy tales. That said, while I can’t give it a higher rating, I must stress that it has some great moments and overall it proved […]

The subtitle is “A Novel of Temeraire” and it does indeed feel almost like a side-story, being restricted in scope, quite removed from the overall plot and at times appearing to lack in content, the author seeming to struggle for inspiration in a few moments. But at least the dragons are still interesting and the […]

Though any amount is far more than I’d like, there was surprisingly little “human filth” to be found in this part of the series. The focus is instead exactly where it should be, with dragons that are really coming into their own, reaching their potential both in how they act and in how they’re presented, […]