Michael Scott Rohan's second Winter of the World book picks up where the first book left off, but progresses in a very different fashion. Where the first book was a more self contained coming of age sort of novel that showed our protagonist Elof rising, falling from grace, and rising again in tri...
Rohan's conclusion to the main sequence of the Winter of the World books is at once the right ending and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Rereading the trilogy recently, I was struck again by how different this book felt from the previous two. It seemed much more so to have a clear message to send; a r...
This is one of my favorite books ever. Well, I read it in 6th grade, and it could just be that it hit me just so at that point in my life so as to make it one of my favorites forever, but still. MSR has put together an amazing combination of myth/folklore (and he really did his research! Or so...
Maxie is in trouble - that's what happens when you drive a Ferrari Testarossa off the motorway at 120 miles per hour. But his problems are just beginning; after he hears about the Spiral, a whirlpool of time and space, he starts bumping into Elizabethan alchemists and bands of pirates.
Not now. I was too badly jarred, and not just in the seat. Already that weird ride was becoming remote and dreamlike, as Spiral memories tend to; yet I couldn’t stop turning it over and over in my head. I lingered on in the bar, though it was filling up with trade-fair types doing roaring busines...