I was all set to give Thirteen Orphans a try, but I couldn't even manage to get past page 60. It essentially seemed like a book that's plot would work out really well, but it feel short in my eyes. The main character Brenda seemed to put a lot of importance on the way someone looked. Well conside...
Rating: 2.5This book was very similar to the first in the series. I found it had more Chinese mythology ramblings than was really necessary, and otherwise I also found Honey Dream's drastic personality turnaround rather unbelievable (though relieving). Ultimately, this book wasn't that much diffe...
after reading this book I am on the fence of whether I thought it was great or not. I have a lot of questions but I did like the characters and the world the author created. I often get sarcastic when humans have close knit relationship with animals but the connection in this book felt believable...
Ignoring all the other reviews below, I'll stare my own opinion haha. BtDCtO (the book) was really good, I really liked it. So much that I finished it within the day that I picked it up. So for a back story, SPOILERS, skip to the end of the paragraph if you've read it. Sarah, a thirty-something y...
He is known as the Changer: a vagabond who slips in and out of myths and cultures, refusing to be pinned down to any one origin just as he refuses to be locked into any one shape - or name. Yet when a quest for vengeance forces him to shed animal form and seek out King Arthur, the Changer discove...
Once again my son and I read about Firekeeper together and once again we were richer for it. I believe this is the only advantage to having a child with a serious case of dyslexia. In spite of his age we get to sit side by side enjoying a story that takes us a to place out of time and away from o...
My 18-year-old son and I are still enjoying reading about Firekeeper together. There is something magic in being able to share in the joy of a well-written novel that cannot be had in reading by myself.Jane Lindskold was at it again with the difficult-to-pronounce words. The worst one was the nam...
Raised in the wild by intelligent, language-using wolves, in her teens Firekeeper was abducted back into the lands of men, where her upbringing as a wolf helped her survive the deadly intrigues of human beings. One of the first things she learned in Hawk Haven was that magic was a thing to be fea...
Raised by smart, language-using wolves, far from humans, then brought back to the court of Hawk Haven, young Firekeeper had to learn to cope with human society. Fortunately, for one raised amidst intelligent pack animals, the intrigues of humans are neither complex nor wholly unfamiliar.Now Melin...
So the good - great to see fantasy that is not tired Celtic mythology rehashed or the annoying current Vampire craze which seems to be 90% of what passes for fantasy these days.The disappointing - the story was a wee bit of a letdown.I really have enjoyed other books by Jane Lindskold. I enjoyed...
Plucky young Jenny Benet, a recently orphaned American girl who was raised on the Wild West frontier and educated at a Boston finishing school, has come to Egypt in company with her uncle Neville Hawthorne, a prominent British archaeologist. They're part of a team investigating the legendary Buri...
Firekeeper was five years old when her remote village burned down, with her as the only survivor. She was taken in by wolves who are larger than the usual wolf, more intelligent—as is only natural since they are royalty. It’s ten years later when an expedition from beyond the mountain pass come l...
Having begun reading to my son about Firekeeper we kept on going. Believe it or not, but quite a bit of snuggle time goes into around 600 pages worth of story. 600 pages is a lot of words. Sometimes I think the two of us get so caught up in how words and sentences connect that we forget to pay as...
Readers can't get enough of Honor Harrington and her world, and here David Weber is again, accompanied by some of the top science fiction writers in the field, with new adventures of the best starship commander in the galaxy, and explorations of previously uncharted corners of her universe. It's ...
—Cicero Prepared by Eddie’s message to treat their employer as if he is part-temperamental two-year-old and part-mad dog, Chris and Bill are surprised by how courteously Arthur summons them to his office a few hours after they receive Eddie’s message. Entering the chief ex...
(Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you what you are.) –CervantesThe Changer sleeps the clock round and into the next day, waking only to eat with animal concentration and then to sleep again. No one, not even Arthur, dares to question him during his infrequent waking spells. There is...
“She said she was going to firmly establish contact with Artemis before coming back into this dead zone. Otherwise, her efforts might be for nothing. If she’s gone seven or eight days without sending a message, then I’ll go looking for her. Meanwhile, I’ll mind your camp on one condition. You all...