Meet the series that completely wrecked my desire to read other books. I started reading the first book in the series “The Raven Boys,” as my nighttime reading on my kindle, so the light wouldn’t bother my sleeping boyfriend. Before I knew it, I had put down my main book, “Elantris” by one of my favorite authors ever, Brandon Sanderson, and just let myself become immersed in the magical […]
The latest installment of Kristen Britain’s Green Rider series is markedly different than others. In the previous entries of the series, The Green Rider and First Rider’s Call, heroine Krrigan G’ladheon is what appears to be an ordinary girl who is continually thrust into danger and who manages to scrape by and save the kingdom. She appears to do this almost by sheer willpower or luck. However in The High King’s Tomb, […]
Every now and then I come across a book that I wholeheartedly wish I had written—The Green Rider, with its sprawling fantasy world, magic broaches, intelligent horses, strong heroine, and chilling evil villains—is one of these. When we first meet main character Karrigan G’ladheon, she has just been kicked out of school for winning a fight against a spoiled noble classmate. Unable to face her father, she runs away […]