To Light a Candle

Those of you who enjoy Elder Scrolls games, like Morrowind or Skyrim, can properly understand that sense of excitement when you are about to explore new city, dungeon, territory. You wonder what it looks like, who you will meet, what stories you will hear, what quests you will go on, how it will cha......more

An excellent fantasy novel. Following up the first volume in the trilogy (literally picking up just where the last book leaves off) we pick up the action quickly here. The first book in the series The Outstretched Shadow takes a good deal of time to build plot, set up story, introduce and build char......more

To sum up the problems of this novel: Too much tea not enough dragons! Or action at all really. This book spends far too much time focused on the characters thinking and discussing what they are going to do and not enough time on the actual doing. Usually it involves tea. There are many pages discuss......more

This book almost took me a full month to read. I wanted to love it as much, if not more so, than the first novel in the series but the truth is: - it’s WAY too repetitive. I loved the initial recap chapter, it did it’s job. There was no need for the frequent summaries and references to events and th......more

A bit of a let down from the series opener. The Good ---------------------------------------- Depth: We get to learn significantly more about Elven culture that is far more nuanced than was portrayed in the first book -- and is usually depicted in other fantasy novels. You do get a bit tired of the te......more