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I’m not sure I really would have picked this one out myself, but I was given the Highwayman, by R.A. Salvatore as a gift. Having read some of his other novels (The Icewind Dale Trilogy, the Dark Elf Trilogy, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones), I have to say that I wasn’t [...]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, caught my eye mainly because it was yet another young adult Fantasy novel being made into a movie. The trailers for the movie looked exciting and the premise of the book seemed intriguing.
Perseus “Percy” Jackson has always known that he was different from [...]

A Princess of Landover, by Terry Brooks, is a return to his well-liked Magic Kingdom of Landover series after several years writing in his Shannara series, including three prequel books that link the Shannara series to his Word and the Void series.
A Princess of Landover, the sixth book in the Magic Kingdom of Landover series, [...]

The Road, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Cormac McCarthy, is a slice of life of a man and his son in the post-apocalyptic United States. Trying to stay alive with little to eat and with cannibals roaming the countryside is no easy task. Like another of his novels, No Country for Old [...]

Fablehaven, by Brandon Mull, is a novel about two children who visit their grandparents at their estate named Fablehaven. As the children learn part way into their stay, Fablehaven is a sanctuary/prison for all sorts of magical creatures, some benign and some malevolent.