Category: books

• The Tide Child Trilogy review

  R.J. Barker’s Tide Child Trilogy feels like a premise that could have been engineered by a focus group made up entirely of clones of me. In his afterword, Barker Cites Robin Hobb and Patrick O’Brian, the two authors I’ve read the most of over the past year, as major influences. On every conceptual level, I…

  captainm001

  December 14, 2025

  books

  Bone Ships, Book Review, book-reviews, books, fantasy, fiction, Lit, Review, RJ Barker, Tide Child

• Isles of the Emberdark review

  Isles of the Emberdark is Brandon Sanderson’s latest Cosmere release and the fifth of his “secret project” novels produced during the pandemic and independently published via Kickstarter. Set in the Cosmere’s far future space age, where worlds are becoming more connected, it follows Dusk, who was a Trapper (a kind of ranger/custodian) of the deadly…

  captainm001

  September 3, 2025

  books, Cosmere

  Book Review, book-reviews, books, Brandon Sanderson, Cosmere, fantasy, isles of the emberdark

• Realm of the Elderlings series review

  (this review covers the whole series but should scan as spoiler-free to all but the most sensitive of readers) Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings comprises 16 full length novels, one novella and half a dozen short stories, but its not as intimidating as it sounds. The novels are divided into five arcs with distinct…

  captainm001

  July 29, 2025

  books

  Book Review, books, fantasy, Farseer Trilogy, fiction, Fitz and the Fool, Fitzchivalry Farseer, Liveship Traders, Rain Wild Chronicles, reading, Realm of the Elderlings, Robin Hobb, RotE, Tawny Man Trilogy