The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a debut novel by N. K. Jemisin, who was recently nominated for the Nebula Award for her short story “Non-Zero Probabilities.” Even though it’s the first book in The Inheritance Trilogy, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a complete story with a satisfying conclusion. The next two books in the series each focus on a different main character than the first one. According to Jemisin’s website, the second book The Broken Kingdoms will be released in […]

It was actually leaning this week since I received 7 review copies and stacked them with the need-to-review pile as they came in (which is now at 5 since I read both The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner and Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews this week – I have started on The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms review and am hoping to finish it soon). These were all unexpected review copies but there are some I will definitely be reading because they […]

February was a decent reading month since I read some really good books and brought the yearly total up to 10. Unfortunately I got sick this week and haven’t been able to think straight (ugh – and it’s only worse today) so I didn’t get to finish getting caught up on reviews after I started to… There’s always this weekend. The books of February were: 6. Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold7. Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs8. The Hundred Thousand […]

Due to illness, I’ve gotten far more reading than reviewing done this weekend. I just finished A Local Habitation, the second book in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series, which is coming out on March 2. It was a lot of fun, and I did think it was better than the first book (which I also liked). So reviews of that, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin and Sea Dragon Heir by Storm Constantine will be coming up sometime when […]

An Illustrated Guide to Mythical Creatureswritten by Anita Ganeri and illustrated by David West48pp (Hardcover)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: N/AGoodreads Rating: 4/5 An Illustrated Guide to Mythical Creatures is written by Anita Ganeri and illustrated by David West. It’s a rather attractive hardcover book for children ages 9 to 12 that is exactly what is described by the title – a reference to various figures and types of creatures from mythology containing many 3D computer generated graphics. This is […]