Cav's Place

While not standing out in any way, the first five chapters are nice enough, catching my attention and keeping me reading and interested in the characters and events. But what truly matters is the last quarter or so of the book, when things change dramatically multiple times, the mess that I tend to call the […]

When the other characters tend to have such a hard time, and when it may even be said to be a good thing that it’s hard to keep track of the minor ones, considering what happens to plenty of them, the amount of hero’s luck that Paige has seems inexcusable. And when plenty of flashbacks […]

While pointing out various ways in which other species exhibit a certain level of intelligence, the author doesn’t try to claim that any of them can compare to humans from this point of view, only arguing that we should accept that, in some way, they possess intelligence and, notably, consciousness, and that more developed intelligence […]

I’m not at all keen on reading in Romanian in general, and fantasy that’s actually written in Romanian in particular is something that just doesn’t seem to work, or at least my, admittedly very few, past experiences showed that I just can’t deal with it. So my expectations of this book were low, but it […]

While it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the Mistborn series is where all of the Cosmere will eventually come together, this remains not only “light” Sanderson, but even “light” Mistborn, if you compare it to the original trilogy… Or even to the previous two books. Yes, these books are meant to be something of a fantasy […]