Simple Genius - ✪✪✪✪ As always I really enjoyed this book by David Baldacci. I like how michelle's character grows more throughout this book and faces things from her past. I did find a few things a little off putting, for example things that Michelle had said during hypnosis treatment. I like how Baldacci writes… Continue reading 5 mini reviews
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Review: Oathbringer
Author: Brandon SandersonPages: 1233Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ Synopsis for Book One Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are… Continue reading Review: Oathbringer
Review: Edgedancer
Author: Brandon SandersonPages: 272Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪ Synopsis Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older--a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows… Continue reading Review: Edgedancer
Review: Words of Radiance
Author: Brandon SandersonSeries: Stormlight Archive #2Pages: 1087Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ Synopsis for book one According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms. And the Voidbringers followed... They came against man… Continue reading Review: Words of Radiance
Review: The Way Of Kings
Author: Brandon SandersonPages: 1001Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪ Synopsis According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. Men took root on Roshar, the world of storms. And the Voidbringers followed... They came against man ten thousand times. To help them… Continue reading Review: The Way Of Kings
Review: Shadows of Self
Author: Brandon SandersonPages: 383Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪ Synopsis for book one Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier,… Continue reading Review: Shadows of Self
Book Review – The Alloy of Law
Author: Brandon SandersonPages: 325Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪ Synopsis Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds. Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed,… Continue reading Book Review – The Alloy of Law
Review: The Hero of Ages
Author: Brandon Sanderson Pages: 848 Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ | Synopsis for the first book in the series | A thousand years ago evil came to the land and has ruled with an iron hand ever since. The sun shines fitfully under clouds of ash that float down endlessly from the constant eruption of volcanoes. A… Continue reading Review: The Hero of Ages
Review: Skyward
Author: Brandon Sanderson Pages: 510 Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ Synopsis: Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity's only defence is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the skies.… Continue reading Review: Skyward
Review: The Well of Ascension
Author: Brandon Sanderson Pages: 763 Star Rating: ✪✪✪✪✪ Synopsis Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Venture, the idealistic young nobleman who loves her, must build a healthy new society in the ashes of an empire. Three separate armies attack. As the siege tightens, an… Continue reading Review: The Well of Ascension