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The Rose Field is the third and final entry in The Book of Dust and possibly the last book featuring Philip Pullman’s most famous character and world. The Rose Field picks up where The Secret Commonwealth left off. Lyra Silvertongue arrives in the abandoned city of al-Khan al-Azraq, searching for her dæmon, who has run […]
Sunrise on the Reaping is the fifth book in the Hunger Games series and the second prequel. This book focuses on Haymitch Abernathy and the 50th Hunger Games. Haymitch Abernathy is a 16-year-old boy whose birthday lands on Reaping Day. He gets reaped for the 50th Hunger Games, the Second Quarter Quell, which doubles the […]
Crusade is the second part of Robyn Young’s Brethren trilogy. This middle entry takes in the final years of the Christian kingdoms during the Ninth Crusade. William Campbell and Anima Templi have secured peace with the mighty Mamluk Sultanate. However, this peace is fragile, and forces on both sides want to restart hostilities. There are […]
The Dwarves is the first novel in a fantasy series by German writer Markus Heitz. Heitz sets up to give everyone’s favourite mountain dwellers a chance to lead a fantasy epic. Tungil Bolofar is an unusual dwarf: an orphan who grew up in the Enchanted Realm of Ionandar. Tungil’s the only dwarf in the realm, […]
Like most Americans, I read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” in high school (sophomore year, in Honors American Literature, to be precise). And I distinctly recall not really liking the book. I’m not sure if it was a case of not caring all that much about a story about a young boy coming of age […]
Klara and the Sun is the eighth novel written by Japanese-born British author, Kazuo Ishiguro. It is his second dystopia novel after Never Let Me Go. Klara is an Artificial Friend, or AF for short, an android designed to be a companion to a teenager. Klara becomes fixated on Josie, a girl who sees the […]
I’m not usually one to tackle nonfiction books. Something about reading nonfiction brings me back to my school days (man, that sentence makes me sound ancient), and I can’t help but feel as if I need to take notes in order to regurgitate things back in the form of a paper. And, let’s face it, […]
Brethren is the first novel by Robyn Young and the first part of a trilogy of novels set during the Eighth Crusade. In the middle of the 13th Century the Knights Templar has made many enemies, including The Knights Hospitallers and Prince Edward of England. In 1260 a book was stolen from The Knights Templar’s […]
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is one of my favourite book series and as a wannabe filmmaker, adapting the trilogy would be one of my dream projects. So, I will propose how I would envision His Dark Materials as a film trilogy. Northern Lights (or The Golden Compass in America) was originally published in […]
Harry Potter/Wizarding World has been a franchise that has been around for nearly 30 years. It has spanned novels, spin-off books, films, a play, and video games. It has been one of Warner Brothers’ most popular properties and they plan to adapt the original books into a TV series for Max to be released in 2026. […]