Tag: book-reviews

• 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

• Wind and Truth review

  This review is spoiler-free for Wind and Truth but may contain mild, implicit spoilers for previous Stormlight books. Brandon Sanderson has a particular way of writing finales. They are big and bombastic and bring foreshadowing from the whole story to bear while plot threads cascade into one another, resolving in sequence. The POV begins to…

  captainm001

  January 6, 2025

  Cosmere

  Book Review, book-reviews, books, Brandon Sanderson, Cosmere, fantasy, Novel review, Stormlight Archive, Wind and Truth