Category Archives: Fantasy

Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer

Posted on November 21, 2014 by bseat

Based on a recommendation from one of my high school friends, (Thanks, Ladd!) I began reading the first of these books, Annihilation and then got so hooked I had to read all the rest.  There is something a bit sneaky … Continue reading →

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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris

Posted on November 14, 2014 by bseat

Sometimes a book’s categorization is elusive. Sometimes you just have to enjoy the book without trying to make it fit a mold.  To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is just such a book. It’s a little bit syfi, a … Continue reading →

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Needful Things by Stephen King

Posted on October 31, 2014 by bseat

Stephen King, known as the master of horror, is truly masterful at scaring people!  His secret is that he takes ordinary, everyday things and turns them into things of nightmares-like a car in Christine, or a dog in Cujo, changing … Continue reading →

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Blood Song by Anthony Ryan

Posted on July 11, 2014 by bseat

Vaelin al Sorna should have had an easy life. His father was a hero and had saved the king. Their family motto was ” Loyalty is our Strength, after falling out of favor with the king and his wife’s death, … Continue reading →

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The River of No Return by Bee Ridgeway

Posted on January 24, 2014 by bseat

Lord Nick Falcott an English aristocrat of the nineteenth century wakes up in the twenty-first century in a hospital bed surrounded by people he doesn’t know.  The last thing he remembers is fighting in Wellington’s army in Salamanca, knowing that … Continue reading →

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Red Moon by Benjamin Percy

Posted on November 22, 2013 by bseat

Patrick Gamble is leaving his life in California and moving to Oregon to live with his mother while his father. who is in the military. is deployed for twelve months.  He gets on the plane  after saying an awkward good … Continue reading →

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A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

Posted on November 8, 2013 by bseat

I love it when books begin with a warning as this one does: “this series will contain frozen mountains, foetid swamps, hostile foreigners, hostile fellow countrymen, the occasional hostile family member, bad decisions, misadventures in orienteering, diseases of an unromantic … Continue reading →

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The Night Circus by Erin Mogenstern

Posted on August 30, 2013 by bseat

In Night Circus you enter a place like no where you have ever imagined.  Morgenstern creates a magical and elusive story that portrays a reality that seems not quite real and yet in its essence is profoundly true. Le Cirque … Continue reading →

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The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on February 22, 2013 by bseat

I loved the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, and so I was eager to read another series by the same author; The Stormlight Archive of which The Way of Kings is the first  of a series of 10 books. One … Continue reading →

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Posted on January 25, 2013 by bseat

The word “fantasy” always conjures up for me something fairy like or Disney-esque,  so I have always hated using that term to describe books like Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin, where although it is not located in our world, it … Continue reading →

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