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Tanis: The Shadow Years

Tanis and Another Dumb Romance Authors: Barbara Siegel & Scott Siegel Before the War of the Lance, the companions split up, each going on a separate adventure, fighting their personal demons and finding their destinies. As the finale to this Preludes series, which reveals each of the companions’ journeys (some of which are far better than others), we come back to the conflicted hero, Tanis Half-Elven. In The Chronicles, Tanis is torn between two loves and between two choices: good and evil. In this book, Tanis is once again in a complicated relationship, traveling back in time through the memory of [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-12T15:21:20-07:00October 12th, 2024|Tags: dragonlance, fantasy, preludes|

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

A Forced Sequel Author: TJ Klune As the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, I don’t think much backdrop is needed for Somewhere Beyond the Sea. If you haven’t read the first book, then this sequel will have you instantly lost anyway, so go back to the beginning, see how it all began, and then return here. We left House in the Cerulean Sea with Linus having left his job at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth (DICMY). The rule follower, having broken free of his grey, rainy city life, followed his heart, and gave it to one Arthur Parnassus, master of a [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-07T08:57:58-07:00October 7th, 2024|Tags: book review, fantasy, read, reading|

House in the Cerulean Sea, The

Bad Morals, Charming Storytelling Author: TJ Klune Linus Baker is the type of unassuming person who always colors within the lines. He does what he is told with precision, sheaves of paper, and a pedantic directness that has finally gotten him noticed. And that’s probably not a good thing. Linus is a Case Worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He’s the bureaucrat sent to government-sanctioned orphanages to make sure that magical children are safe from one another and that society is shielded from them. That’s not to say that Linus doesn’t have a conscience. He does. But [...]

Frances Carden2024-09-13T21:05:17-07:00September 13th, 2024|Tags: book review, fantasy, read, reading, sci-fi, science fiction|