The Sky on Fire is a supremely fun book centering around heists, dragons, and magic with fantastic world-building. In a year when books can barely hold my attention, I was immediately hooked on The Sky on Fire and never wanted to put the book down. For me, the standout of The Sky on Fire was definitely the world-building. The world is divided into high and lows, with the rich […]
The Discord of Gods is a fast-paced and fitting conclusion to the A Chorus of Dragons series. The novel features many of the hallmarks of the series, the insanely complex character connections and relationships, the wit and the banter, and a whole lot of gods, god-kings, and dragons running amok. Though The Discord of Gods wraps up the series, it doesn’t exactly tie everything up neatly in a bow. […]
The House of Always picks up right where its predecessor, The Memory of Souls left off. Unfortunately, I found that the title of the novel was a bit too fitting as I found this latest entry in A Chorus of Dragons to be eternal. The House of Always displays the worst usage of the author’s nontraditional storytelling methods and perspective jumping, with characters taking turns using telepathy to show the […]
Full disclosure, I was a little nervous about picking up The Memory of Souls, as I did not enjoy the last book in the series, The Name of All Things, nearly as much. I also saw quite a few negative reviews on Goodreads, so I tried to get a handle on my expectations going into The Memory of Souls. So imagine my surprise when I found The Memory of Souls to be […]
The Name of All Things is the follow up to author Jenn Lyons’s The Ruin of Kings. Despite finding the previous entry in A Chorus of Dragons incredibly confusing, I still immediately wanted to pick up The Name of All Things. I found The Name of All Things to be a bit more straightforward than its predecessor, but surprisingly, I didn’t like this novel or how it was told quite […]