The Alex Verus Series is really heating up and each book seems to be getting better. In Taken, book three, Alex and his trusty apprentice, Luna, set out to solve the mystery of missing apprentices, a delicate task full of political pitfalls and powerful magic. The actual ‘who dunnit’ was a little obvious […]
You really need to read the Deathstalker series in order or you would be pretty much lost. Even reading in order, each group of chapters will just drop into a scene and if you don’t know what was going on in the previous book, then you have no hope of following the story, particularly with the […]
You really need to read the Deathstalker series in order or you would be pretty much lost. Even reading in order, there are scenes which are completely disjointed from the scene before and after. There will be a few chapters say, about Owen and Hazel, and their adventure. Next the story will jump into a […]
I liked Deathstalker War the best of the three in the Deathstalker series so far. This is possibly because the story had Owen Deathstalker at the beginning, the middle, and the end, which is more what I expect from the title character in an urban fantasy series. The war has arrived. It only began in […]
I was excited, since I’d be over the first book issues of figuring out the world and knowing the characters. But Deathstalker Rebellion was still a long, long, long, book with an overwhelming amount of details. Thankfully, there is humor, and I care about some characters or I’d give up. The beginning has Lionstone meeting […]
Somehow I got the idea in my head the Deathstalker series was urban fantasy and it’s science fiction / space opera. It is even more bizarre because I thought the Alex Verus series by Benedict Jacka was science fiction and it turned out to be urban fantasy. They are both narrated by Gildart Jackson very […]
Read It, Rate It and Record A short review to update challenges The Alex Verus series was recommended awhile back by Ilona Andrews so I’m finally reading it. My incorrect impression was it was science fiction. It’s urban fantasy with mages, elementals and more. I enjoyed the world building, the mystery plot […]