The Brand of the Warlock

Five stars for pure enjoyability. Starts out strong and keeps up the pace. As the first of five novels, it opens up the possibilities while making the first entry whole in itself. Kroese once again astounds me in his ability to turn out straight ahead SF and Fantasy, along with humorous novels in thos......more

Kroese exceeds himself with the first in his latest series, crafting a main character who is a mystery within a mystery wrapped in an enigma. From the first chapter on, we never know what he’s going to do next, and we can’t wait to find out. The novel has an old school feel of the classics, transpose......more

Another great humorous sci-fi book by Rob Kroese! It's more serious than his Mercury series, but still has plenty of humorous elements. Love the plot of this book and excited to read the next one in the series!......more

I think it was a well-written book and I had fun listening to the audiobook. It was very easy to immerse into the world. I enjoyed the first part more because ending was rushed. There was too much “deus ex machina” solutions. I also missed character development because I didn’t know much about the p......more

Well-written book with two elements that completely ruined it: 1) The MC has a chance at the beginning of the book to inherit like a million dollars and marry his sweetheart. He deliberately throws the chance away with a foolish and short-sighted decision and therefore completely ruins his life forev......more