Review: Beyond the Shadows by Brent Weeks

Beyond the Shadows Brent Weeks Orbit, 2008 Needless to say spoilers for both The Way of Shadows and Shadow’s Edge lay ahead.  Look out! In Beyond the Shadows, the final volume of Brent Weeks’ Night Angel Trilogy, Kyler Stern has defeated the Godking though it as at a price.  With the horrible truth behind his [...]

Review: Shadow’s Edge by Brent Weeks

Shadows Edge Brent Weeks Orbit, 2008 I’m slowly making way back to the multitude of sequels I’ve neglected since starting this blog and I’m starting by reading the last two volumes of Brent Weeks’ Night Angel Trilogy (partially because his new book Black Prism is due out in August).  I read and reviews The Way [...]

Music Monday: With Sprinkles by Beefy

You should all know by now, if previous posts are anything to go by, that I am a fan of nerdcore.   I feel a little bad that I’ve yet to devote a full post to nerdcore rapper Beefy but, with last weeks release of his newest album With Sprinkles I’m about to change that.  Beefy’s [...]

Review: Changes by Jim Butcher

Changes Jim Butcher Roc, 2010 Chapters 1-4 available here! Changes is the 12th novel in Jim Butcher’s consistently excellent Dresden Files.  Of all the series I read the Dresden Files is one I most frequently question whether or not I should even bother reviewing.  Not because it isn’t good, but because it is so consistently [...]

BFBC2 is full of win.

I dash for across the rusting deck of the half-submerged wreck of the ship leap over the crumbling rail and smile in grim satisfaction as my knife sinks into the neck of the unsuspecting ruskie below me. Sure I die a half a second later as his companion pumps hot lead into my back, but [...]

Review: Day by Day Armageddon by J. L. Bourne

Day by Day Armageddon J. L. Bourne Permuted Press, 2007 (now available through Pocket Books as of 2009, linked at left) Day by Day Armageddon was one of the earliest title released by Permuted Press, an independent publisher specializing in apocalyptic fiction (and especially zombie fiction), and was recently re-released as part of 5 book [...]

Review: The Gunslinger by Stephen King

The Gunslinger Stephen King Plume, 2003 (nook  edition) First Line: The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. Despite being the book that kicked off Stephen King’s Dark Tower series I originally read it third, during the long wait between The Waste Lands and Wizard and Glass, oddly enough I never [...]

Review: Shadow Prowler by Alexy Pehov

Shadow Prowler Alexy Pehov, translated by Andrew Bromfield Tor, 2010 (orig.  2002) In Shadow Prowler, the first in a famed Russian fantasy series, the Master Thief Shadow Harold is tasked to find a means to stop the seemingly inexorable advance of the Unnamed One.  Joined by a motley cast of characters he sets off on [...]

Music Monday: Volbeat

I thought for sure I’d posted here about Volbeat before.  But it looks like I was wrong.  Volbeat are a Danish hard rock/metal band that are like some bizarre cross between Elvis, Metallica, and Social Distortion.  I know that combination doesn’t sound possible, but seriously these guys pull it off and then some.  Rock the [...]

April Summary…and Beyond!

Spring always feels so busy.  With PAX East at the end of March followed be Easter followed by being sick I’ve spend most of the last 4 to 6 weeks trying to get back into my normal routine.  It doesn’t help that the siren call of sunny days wars against the harsh glow and lulling [...]