Category Archives: Savannah’s Book Reviews

So I’ve been working through the modern fantasy canon, mostly by hitting up used book sales and buying armfuls of mass market paperbacks. My shelf’s now overloaded mostly with well-loved copies of the Dragonriders of Pern, ASOIAF, and Shannara, which means I need to start digesting the collection I spent tens of dollars on.

Eragon was one of those books I picked up from a book sale, opting to give it a crack since I can fill a big bag of books and pay $10 of the whole thing, so it was basically free. I knew the gist: the archetypal “boy finds a dragon egg” story, a teenager’s debut novel published by his parents’ publishing company. It had a (in my opinion ugly, horse-looking) dragon on the cover. As dcb astutely pointed out, “Eragon” is one letter off from “dragon.” Huh.

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One of these days, I’ll write a review for a recent, relevant book, and it might finally get half as many clicks as me shitting on RF Kuang (I’m so sorry, Rebecca). I’d actually been sitting on plans to review The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi for a good year now. Trouble is, the more books and series I read like Book of The New Sun and Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings, the more my grading system gets thrown out of whack, because they push what I consider a 5/5.

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This is the craziest shit I have ever read. Continue reading →

Hey! I’m packing for a trip to Winnipeg (not a frozen shithole currently, but it is on fire) but I’ve got some time, and by that I mean I’d rather write a book review than pack. I read The Long … Continue reading →

I think I mentioned in my last post I’ve been reading loads recently. The Somnolians end up suffering through me liveblogging reactions to books I read, particularly those I don’t like (which has been a grand total of two). And Letters is due for a post. Continue reading →