The Alchemy Wars series, by Ian Tregillis, has consistently surpassed my expectations over the last three years. The Mechanical, The Rising, and The Liberation have all been great, and each sequel improves on the previous in small ways. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, you can find reviews of books one and two…
Continue reading ➞ The Liberation – A Stong End To The Alchemy Wars
The Mechanical, by Ian Tregillis, was one of my top books of 2015, so it should be no surprise that I was excited for the sequel - The Rising. For those of you unfamiliar with the original book, it is a historical fiction that follows multiple points of view, telling the story of a steampunk…
The time has come for ‘Best of 2015’ threads and to reflect on all the wonderful books I enjoyed over the year. This piece will address my top 10 reads published in 2015, but is missing some of the amazing older books I read throughout the year. I read roughly 80 books this year, about…
I have read a lot of historical fiction this year, and I’m pretty tired of England. When writing a historical fiction, writers tend to go for a well known and popular time in history to make the book more appealing. There is nothing wrong with this, these times (like WWII) are popular because they are…
