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David McK (3801 KP) rated The Loki Sword (Fireborn #3) in Books

Sep 18, 2022  
The Loki Sword (Fireborn #3)
The Loki Sword (Fireborn #3)
Angus Donald | 2022
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I'm not sure why, but for some reason I haven't really connected with Angus Donald's 'Fire Born' novels, finding them to be the weakest of his three series that I have read (The Outlaw Chronicles and the Holcroft Blood series).

I don't know why that is; it's just one of those things.

However, I'll still read these novels, just not be in as much of a rush to do so as with the others.

This is the third in his FireBorn series (after both The Last Berserker: An action-packed Viking adventure and The Saxon Wolf: A Viking epic of berserkers and battle) and is also, for my money, the best of those three novels. That may be because of the nature of this - a band of travellers setting out on a quest, leading to a battle and a return home, with the author himself admitting the influence of the works of JRR Tolkien on this particular entry.
  
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Bethr1986 (305 KP) rated The Sylvan Horn (The Sylvan Chord, #1) in Books

Dec 9, 2022  
The Sylvan Horn (The Sylvan Chord, #1)
The Sylvan Horn (The Sylvan Chord, #1)
Robert Redinger | 2011 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Independent Reviewer for Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!


I don't know if it was intentional, but I did find that as I was reading I felt some similarities between this and the Lord of the Rings, the quest to save things as it is. As I read further through there were a lot more differences and I felt it was finally on its own path and able to tell its tale.


One of the things I did find annoying was the repetitiveness of some of the sentences, I know it was possibly done for effect but it seemed to have no relevance or impact on the story.


When the story was in its own flow I was captured and enjoyed the adventure that I was taken on and the mystical things that were involved. Apart from my grievance above, I did find that it was very well written.


Give it a chance.


** same worded review will appear elsewhere **
  
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated 214 Palmer Street [Audiobook] in Books

Apr 11, 2022  
214 Palmer Street [Audiobook]
214 Palmer Street [Audiobook]
Karen McQuestion | 2022 | Crime, Mystery
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is one of those books that I neither loved nor loathed ... I liken it to one of those films that's not brilliant but you have to watch it to see how it ends but you soon forget about it.

In summary, it's a story about lies and secrets and one woman's quest to find out the truth and the consequences of her doing so. It starts off well, drops in the middle and gets going again towards the end. There are twists but I found them quite predictable. The characters are an interesting bunch and not particularly likeable and I have to admit that I wasn't particularly upset when one of them met an untimely end!

The narrator did a good job but I just found this book not particularly memorable or 'thrilling' but many have so give it a go.

Thank you to Bookouture Audio and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest, unbiased and unedited review.