Berliad's Blog

I picked up Rebel Galaxy by Double Damage games on a whim when it appeared in a GOG sale.  I hadn't heard much about it, but I'v...

I'm torn on this book.  On the plus side,  The Subtle Knife  really expanded the universe (universes?) of the series.  As it says in t...

Dead Man's Steel is a good, satisfying conclusion the Grim Company trilogy .  We get complete character arcs for most of the key char...

All her life, Lyra has lived at Jordan College in England.  She grew up among the old scholars as a rough-and-tumble rugrat, befriending t...

I've seen The Lies of Locke Lamora described as a sort of Ocean's Eleven  story in a fantasy setting.  That's arguably how tha...

This book was a delightful surprise. I'd heard that the original Peter Pan novel was very different from the Disney-fied version. Nev...

This story takes place a generation after the events in the Deathly Hallows.  I enjoyed the opportunity to dive back in with these charac...

Downbelow Station featured an incredibly well-built future universe, ripe with intrigue. I found the pacing to be excellent throughout-...