Latest Reviews:
- Review of ‘All the Seas of the World’ by Guy Gavriel Kay
All The Seas of the World is the 15th novel by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay, and is the closest to a direct sequel of any of the novels generally marketed as stand-alones. Taking place after the events recounted in A Brightness Long Ago, a number of characters re-appear or are referenced from that work…. - Review of ‘Truth of the Divine’ by Lindsay Ellis
Truth of the Divine is the second novel from American author, YouTuber, and critic Lindsay Ellis and is the direct sequel to her debut novel Axiom’s End picking up a few months after the events of that novel. We continue to follow Cora Sabino as she serves as interpreter and becomes increasingly closely bonded with… - Review of ‘The Group’ by Octavia D. Mason
The Group is the debut novel from American writer, poet and artist Octavia D. Mason, and introduces us to the world and life of Amiko Marquis, a young musician whose life is turned upside down by a series of startling revelations about the nature of the world, fate and reality, and some dark truths about… - Review of ‘Axiom’s End’ by Lindsay Ellis
Axiom’s End is the debut novel from American author, Youtuber and critic Lindsay Ellis, and follows the experiences of former linguistics student and person-adjacent-to-significant-people Cora Sabino as her entire life is turned upside down by the sudden appearance of alien life, which thrusts her into the center of danger, and conspiracy. While suffering a little…
Latest Articles:
- The Bosom of Time
Of all the things I’ve seen anybody praise the Wheel of Time for, the one that always confuses me the most is praise for the way Jordan writes women. They point to how many strong female characters are in the story, and in one sense they’re not wrong. Egwene, Elayne, Faile, Nynaeve, Aviendha, Moraine, Siuan,… - If You Can’t Make Your Own Setting, Store-bought Is Fine.It’s surprising to me just how many people who’ve read the Wheel of Time didn’t realize the amount of signposting that the story takes place in our world. Whether it’s far ahead or far behind the present day is confounded by the cyclical nature of the story. It could in fact be both. But for…
- The Eye of the World – The Whyyy of Time
Here we are, the final episode of Season 1 of The Wheel of Time. It’s been an extremely short journey to this point, with almost no time for any of the character development that happens over the much longer duration in the book, but nevertheless, it’s time for the climax of the story! Rand is… - The Dark Along The Ways – Going Way Off CourseAlright, episode 7, almost done. Today we venture through the ways, to a destination that wasn’t the destination, without characters who were there, for reasons that didn’t exist. Good times. We start the episode off with a ‘flashback’ to the birth of Rand with an action scene that undercuts several core tenets of Aiel culture….
