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Month: April 2026

Book Review: Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1) by Ray Bradbury

Book Review: Dandelion Wine (Green Town, #1) by Ray Bradbury


Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Dandelion Wine is an absolutely beautiful coming-of-age story. It’s a book I’ve owned for years, one I purchased second-hand when I realized that it was part of a series that included one of my favorite books, Something Wicked This Way Comes. But for some reason, I kept putting it off, fearing that it would somehow weaken the magical grip Something Wicked has on my heart. Instead, it strengthened it. This slim book is every bit as weirdly wonderful and inexpressibly nostalgic as its counterpart, weaving that same magical grip around my heart regarding the summer as Something Wicked did with autumn. It’s exactly what I’m always craving—but rarely find—when I venture into the realm of natural realism.

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Book Review: Once There Were Heroes (A Time of Dragons, #1) by Philip C. Quaintrell

Book Review: Once There Were Heroes (A Time of Dragons, #1) by Philip C. Quaintrell

Cover art by Chris McGrath

Once There Were Heroes by Philip C. Quaintrell

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Series: A Time of Dragons (Book #1 of 5)

Genre: Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy

Pages: 750 pages (Hardcover Edition)

Published:  4 September 2023 by Quaintrell Publishings


Once There Were Heroes ignites the epic and slow-burning genesis of an unexplored saga in the world of Verda.

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Book Review: The Lesser Devil (The Sun Eater, 1.5) by Christopher Ruocchio

Book Review: The Lesser Devil (The Sun Eater, 1.5) by Christopher Ruocchio


The Lesser Devil by Christopher Ruocchio
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“He had always been the lesser devil. Always in Hadrian’s shadow, or his father’s. It had taken years, decades, to realize that it was this that had made him angry as a boy. This that had made him … whatever he’d been.”

“…shadows shrink in time.”

Crispin, the “lesser devil” of House Marlowe, has always lived in Hadrian’s shadow, even close to 40 years after his older brother’s disappearance. Hadrian is constantly on Crispin’s mind. His longing for his older brother, in spite of how terribly they parted, was poignant. “I wish Hadrian was here” and “Hadrian would know what to do” were frequent refrains in his thoughts. And yet, he has within himself the potential to be a better man.

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