Morgan Rice’s A March of Kings
[Spoilers!] I’m over Morgan Rice. I mistakenly bought the third in this “Bestselling Series,” on audible, thus learning two things: 1) a lot of people know noth...
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Jasper T. Scott’s Excelsior
[Spoilers!] I didn’t like this book, nor the narration by James Patrick Cronin. The dialogue was at times frustrating, but more so was the bad science and...
Morgan Rice’s A Quest of Heroes.
[Spoilers!] Don’t waste your time with Morgan Rice, a self-publishing, self-promoting fraud. I bought this book based on the many high internet reviews. T...
Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale.
[Spoilers!]This book was great. It passes the Bechdel Test, with some strong female characters who regularly interact, and the female protagonist makes friends ...
Kenneth Burke’s Representative Anecdote & the Cult of the Kill
The final idea Burke had that was better than his Pentad was the Representative Anecdote. There are a few theories like this one floating around now, but aside ...
Is It Time to Re-Examine Firefly/Serenity?
At the height of his career, Joss Whedon was enjoying the successes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) and Angel (1994-2004) when he created Firefly. Thoug...
Mercedes Lackey’s Hunter
[Spoilers!] The haters are just plain wrong. Yes, the book is post-Hunger Games and Divergent–it’s also post-Maze Runner, but I guess that doesnR...
Kenneth Burke’s Identification and Consubstantiality
Another in the line of “8 Burkean concepts that are better than the Pentad” are the paired concepts of Identification and Consubstantiality. For our...
Nicole Taylor’s The Witch Hunter
[Spoilers!] This book was just horrible. First off, I was constantly double checking as it read like a book late in a series–it just jumped right in to re...
Dr. Who Series 2: Most Disturbing Premise (pt. 2; Top 10)
[Spoilers] Premises can be disturbing because, if true, they’re scary, or they can be disturbing because they don’t make sense. Previously, I laid o...