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The Language Of Thorns

Leigh Bardugo and Sara Kipin

8.7 (15 Ratings) Rate It

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Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by...

Young Adult Fantasy Illustrated Fairy Tales

David McK (3623 KP) rated Dragons of Autumn Twilight: Chronicles, Volume One (Dragonlance Chronicles Book 1) in Books

Aug 12, 2020

I think I might have first read this in the mid to late 90s. Anyway, there or thereabouts. Definitely before the resurgence of 'classic' fantasy brought about by the Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) movies of the early 21st century.

I recently decided to give it a re-read (in 2020). What is now clear(er) to me than to the just-becoming-a-teenager I was on my first read is just how heavily indebted this is to JRR Tolkien, and just how much it reads like someone-decided-to-play-a-game-of-D&D-and-write-down-what-their-characters-did.

That latter probably shouldn't come as a surprise, given that one of the authors of this actually helped design that game.

Here, in the first of the 'core' Dragonlance novels, we have your standard archetypes: Halfling (Kender), Warrior, Knight, Elf, Half-Elf, Wizard, Barbarian all going off on what becomes various quests that (surprise surprise!) involve delving in dungeons and various sundry other enclosed spaces ...

I'll probably re-read the sequels, just because.

Kudos

ClareR (5996 KP) rated The Moscow Whisper in Books

Jun 12, 2020

The Moscow Whisper

Michael Jenkins | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry, Thriller

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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This is another non-stop action spy thriller from Michael Jenkins, and this time his hero, Sean Richardson, is on a mission to infiltrate a group of Russian mercenaries who are trying to take over a nation state in Africa.

What surprises me more than anything, is how much I enjoy these books. I don’t like spy books. I failed miserably to read and enjoy the only James Bond book I picked up. But when I saw this pop up on the options of books to read on The Pigeonhole app, I jumped at the opportunity to sign up. I’ve enjoyed all three of these books in the series. They’re really engaging, well explained for those of us who don’t understand the inner workings of British Intelligence or military, and the characters are highly likeable (or detestable, depending on who they are!).

It’s simply a great read, whether you like spy novels, or if you’ve never tried one. This whole series is so good, and I’m already looking forward to the next one!