Truth to Tale

I've been working my way through the Mistborn series for quite a while. I loved the first book. The second one I felt dragged just a bit, and now I've finished the third and the ending just about wrecked me, it was was so painfully good! Plot ☆☆☆☆☆ I'm not sure what I was expecting when I went into this series, but it was not this. This trilogy blew my mind. Since this is the third installment in the series, I really can't say much without giving a bunch of spoilers. Needless to say, there were so many twists and turns. Everything I thought I knew about the characters, the Mistborn world, the villain(s) just got completely turned on its head. I had actually stumbled across a spoiler before I started the series. Something happens in the end that I was not happy about and so I dreaded reaching that point of the story. Even so, I could not stop turning the pages. There were so many things that I was curious about and wanted to see resolved. When I got to the ...

     It's time for yet another review! My husband and I were in Barnes and Noble when I spotted this book. I already have a large-ish stack of books on my tbr shelf, so I was going to hold off on buying this one, but temptation was too strong.      This was not a long or heavy read, by any means, so I chewed through it pretty quickly. It was a nice change of pace from "The Wheel of Time". Plot: ☆☆☆      So, what is it about? Surviving in medieval England, of course! Well, there is a bit more to it than that. There are alternate dimensions, a man with amnesia, a couple more men that want him dead, a storyteller, a warrior, and there may or may not be talking bananas. It does lean more heavily into science fiction than fantasy, so don't let the wizard in the title fool you.      The premise is creative and their are definitely plot twists. However, this was not the rich, deep plot I'm accustomed to seeing from Sander...

     This was the book I took with me on our camping trip in the beginning of the month and it was the perfect companion to crackling fires, beams of waning light filtering through a canopy of leaves, and the warm scent of woodsmoke hanging heavy on the air. I had originally been intimidated by this series, not only from the length of the first book, but also because I heard that Jordan's writing was heavy and flowery. However, after reading the first few pages, I was hooked.      This book introduces the Wheel of Time, a cycle that repeats and weaves the pattern of fate. Souls are recycled and thrown back into life as different people. There is rumor that one such soul has been reborn: that of the dragon; one destined to either destroy the world or to save it.      Three teenage boys in a sleepy farming village find themselves the objects of interest from the Dark One. They must leave their village in order to draw those who are chasing them...