As always, I love the way Lee and Miller use words. Unfortunately, the story itself was not much to my interest. The first 2/3 of Crystal Dragon has our heroes searching for a mysterious set of equations. The authors exquisitely and painstakingly build up a world – how it operates, what are the physics behind it, [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Crystal Soldier by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
February 2, 2008 – 7:40 pm
Crystal Soldier is the third in my list of books I am indulging in before getting back to technical reading. I’m having such a great time! Crystal Soldier is a prequel to the Liaden Universe series. The authors, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, are very clever – it’s interesting to see how they fleshed out the brief details mentioned in their [...]
Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn
February 1, 2008 – 3:10 am
Too much magic in this book for me. Life seems pretty easy when you can just ring your enemies with a wall of fire and make yourself invisible. Magic is not nearly as exciting as working your way towards some goal, inch by inch, never knowing if you will get there, making incremental, infinitesimal progress, [...]
