At this point, if you made it to book nine of the Outlander series, you know that the majority of this series is different people talking to each other with just a little action sprinkled in to keep you interested.

GTtBTIAG is the same but even more noticeable and tedious than the eight books before it.

Loves it so much! Got so emotional several times. The Last Battle is going down as o e of my top three favorite chapters in a fantasy series of all time!

The number one thing to say about this novel, and this whole series even though it‘s 14 books long, you still want more of the story. Can‘t wait to see how it concludes.

Obviously, it is really hard for another author to pick up where the original author left off…..and it was really easy to tell the difference between Jordan and Sanderson‘s writing styles. But, Sanderson does a great job and does credit to Jordan‘s amazing characters and storytelling.

The Gathering Storm has me really excited to dive into the final two novels in the series

A few things about the eleventh novel:

Tuon and Rand deserve to be locked in the same room and forced to live with each other; never to be heard from anyone else ever again.

Finally, the biggest disappointment is that, even though this is deep fantasy, the protagonists would consider and in fact make temporary alliances with a group of people that value enslavement and torture. The ends justifying the means is not always an acceptable excuse.

It was fine. Feeling the real pull now to get through the last five books of the series just to get a conclusion.

Aziz‘s dystopia is a chilling insight into government corruption.

This edition, more than any other Wheel of Time novel before it, spent the majority of the novel building up to the massive series changing battle at the end. However good the pay off was, it was a definite slog to get to it.

If you are looking for a moral lesson from a novel, maybe The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen isn‘t where you should start.

However, if you want a dismal reflection on how happiness and joy are fleeting experiences, and the more unhappy someone gets, the more they cling to anything that might possibly hopefully give them a sense of positivity in a very negative reality, then Franzen does not disappoint.

Atwood‘s dystopia is disturbing in ways that will stick with you for a long time after you have finished reading A Handmaid‘s Tale. Proof that this novel isn‘t just great but also extremely meaningful.

Dickens writes, as in all his novels, beautifully, but this one is completely discomforting. The villain is a little person treated more of as a demon than a human which is extremely socially problematic. Even giving it a little levity for the time period it was written in, it‘s a little sad that an author like Dickens, who spends a lot of time writing about the misfortunes of others, showed this amount of callousness in the character of Quilp.

Intense, extremely horrifying. Its tension builds like a great ghost story is supposed to. If there is any fault to it, the ending seemed a little to safe when the author set himself up to do something more bold.

I don‘t want to talk about it.

After eight volumes, you know exactly what you are going to get and got exactly what you thought. Claire and Jamie survive the unfortunate circumstances they encounter. This series now has very little to do with a progression of a plot as it does with a progression of the history of the main characters. However, this installment still holds up as good fiction with a great ending that has me looking forward to the ninth.

Having read this masterpiece over ten times, I can hardly get through the last chapter without tears sliding down my face. If that‘s not the greatest testament towards a beautiful piece of literature, I don‘t know what is.

Loss. Grief. Revenge. Seperation. Treachery. All themes Gabaldon explores in a breathtaking seventh installment of the Outlander series. Best one since the first.

I have so many feels about this book. First and foremost I love how Gaiman contrasts the literary concept of graveyards being nightmarish with graveyards being a place of peace. Second, I love how the concept of death is treated. And finally love how each chapter could stand alone as it‘s own short story. Well imagined and well executed. Made me into a Gaiman fan.

Where her other novels intrigued, even haunted you, Burntown came up flat with an ending so contrived, it makes you wonder if McMahon had no idea how to end it until she was forced to write one.

If this did what it should, I should find snowmen creepy now; but I still feel the same amount of apathy towards them as I did toward this novel.

Where there were parts that made you hold your breath, 1400+ pages seemed too long a way to get to nowhere.

90% of the time, you felt like the main characters were safe which made for a few select adrenaline filed moments when all of a sudden they were not. Overall good read but far from his best work.

What is with all the sexual violence in the series!

All of Shaara's novels humanize the brutality of the Civil War in a way that you want to forget, but need to know. In this novel, the Spence and Bauer chapters create scenes in your mind that appropriately depict the tragic consequences that civil war has on humanity, and how both men and women had to mentally survive through them.

Thought I would never like an actress/actor biography, but the humorous way Anna talks about her real insecurities humanized her. She made herself relatable, and it was beautiful. In a wonderful way, it made me feel better about myself in this world.

Well written except for the fact that the characters made just really dumb decisions to constantly fuel the drama.

All was great but you read the collection for Adaptation.

When you stop trying to figure out whether you are at Hogwarts or Narnia, and you get to the last hundred pages where you realize it comes together to be about the human soul, it's beautiful.

Touching novel. Really humanize both sides of the Civil War emphasizing the sacrifice and tragic loss in one of the most famous battles of American history.

Riveting story caught up in convoluted philosophy only to come to a vague conclusion that life is a metaphor.

Predictable who done it....but horrifying wonderful joy ride to get there with unforgettable twisted characters.

A lot of mystery novels rely on dumb luck.:..this one a little too much so.

Harry Potter without Hogwarts is just teen angst and luck.Ironically when the Chosen One gets back to school, the book magically gets better.