Rating
Plot ★★★☆☆
Characters ★★★★☆
Excitement ★★★☆☆
Atmosphere ★★★★★
Writing Style ★★★★☆
Tag: Philosophical
Kindred – Octavia E. Butler (Standalone)
Female Main Character ✓ Heart-Wrenching ✓ Philosophical ✓ Thought-Provoking ✓
The Atlas Six – Olivie Blake (The Atlas #1)
“We all have our own curses. Our own blessings. We are the gods of our own universes, aren’t we? Destructive ones.” What is the Book about? The Library of Alexandria has never perished; it has hidden away the darkest secrets of humanity for millennia. Every ten years, the most talented magicians of their generation are…
Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen #1)
“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.” So what’s the book about? The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the…
The Darkness That Comes Before – R. Scott Bakker (Prince of Nothing Book #1)
“Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.” So what’s the book about? Maithanet, the ruler of a thousand temples, calls for a holy war against the infidels – an enterprise that attracts a wide variety of profiteers and interested parties. Somewhat less…
The Reading Stray 