Jonathan Carroll has become an author on my must read list that includes Charles de Lint, Guy Gavriel Kay, & Jorge Amado. Carroll's brand of contemporary fantasy and surrealism is unique to the fantasy genre. I have read and reviewed four other Carroll novels:...
Book Review 147: Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay
by MHill | Nov 19, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Guy Gavriel Kay, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Guy Gavriel Kay is becoming one of my favorite authors and joining a list that includes Jorge Amado, Jonathan Carroll, and Charles de Lint Sailing to Sarantium will be the second Kay novel I have read this year and the third one in the past couple of years. Sailing to...
Book Review 140: The Little Country by Charles de Lint
by MHill | Aug 26, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Charles De Lint, Marion's All-Time Favorite Novels, Marion's Favorite Books, Rereading Series
Back in the early to mid-1990's, Charles de Lint was one of two novelists I read regularly. The other novelist was Dean Koontz. I had not been a big reader at that point in my life and I can attribute the love of reading in my adult life to both of these authors. ...
Book Review 136: The White Raven by Carrie D. Miller
by MHill | Jun 22, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
I never thought I would like reading a book about witches. Well, that's the power of reading. You can end up liking something unexpected. The White Raven by Carrie D. Miller is the story of Aven Dovenelle....
Book Review 134: Meji Book Two by Milton Davis
by MHill | Jun 6, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews
Last year, I read the first book of a duology about twin brothers, Ndoro and Obaseki. They were separated at birth and that book delved into their past revealing what made each brother special amongst the people of Sesu, an African-inspired kingdom on the continent of...
Book Review 132: The Land Across by Gene Wolfe
by MHill | May 19, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Gene Wolfe
One of the greatest living American authors just had their eighty-seven birthday earlier this month. Is it Philip Roth? Cormac McCarthy? Richard Ford? John Irving? Toni Morrison? None of them. It is Gene Wolfe. Wolfe has never gotten the mainstream literary success...
Book Review 130: Warrior by K.M. Tremills
by MHill | Apr 23, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews
Last year, I read the first book in a series of an introspective and thoughtful fantasy novel by an author I had made an online acquaintance through a Facebook writers group. That first novel, Messenger, got my attention through its absorbing prose and a protagonist,...
Book Review 129: Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay
by MHill | Mar 18, 2018 | 2018 Book Reviews, Guy Gavriel Kay, Magical Realism, Marion's All-Time Favorite Novels, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Marion's Reading Life Blog, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Have you ever as a reader given a novel you did not finish another chance? Well, there is a first time for everything. I gave Children of Earth and Sky a second chance. I read it a couple years ago when it was first released. Kay writes beautifully, and the...
Book Review 122: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
by MHill | Dec 31, 2017 | 2017 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
A standalone epic fantasy novel is a rare thing in publishing these days. (I do know that Sanderson wrote a novella in the same world but it is not connected to Elantris). Reading Elantris by Brandon Sanderson and not having to wonder what will happen in Book 2 is a...
Book Review 120: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
by MHill | Nov 3, 2017 | 2017 Book Reviews, Marion's Favorite Books
Some novels read fast. Non-stop page turning action that grabs your imagination and doesn't let go until you finish. Other novels read slowly like eating a well-cooked meal at your favorite restaurant. You take the time to eat your meal with a glass of...