My parents come from interesting backgrounds. My father was the middle son of a self-made furniture maker, who was able to establish shop in rural Philippines. Although life was plain, they had it well enough–my grandfather preached about the values of hard work, discipline, and precision, which culminated to my father becoming an engineer. My mother’s …
Well, I can’t wait for the weekend. I’m inching my way towards the end of that first act of The Ikessar Falcon, so of course I’m going to be doing anything but that today. The new Jaeth’s Eye cover is coming along. What can I say? My Artiste knows where her priorities lie.
To finish up this series (read My Scathing Review of Jaeth’s Eye and My Scathing Review of Aina’s Breath if you haven’t, yet), I review Sapphire’s Flight, Book 3 of The Agartes Epilogues… One thing that struck me about this novel is that it is long, a LOT longer than the two previous books. Villoso …
I said I wouldn’t do this but it’s just too much fun not to. My scathing review of Aina’s Breath, Book 2 of The Agartes Epilogues. Just when you didn’t think Villoso was capable of writing any worse, she *does it again*. Aina’s Breath starts off with a prologue that’s completely unrelated to the previous brain …
The prologue for the first book of The Agartes Epilogues starts rather abruptly: It is not recorded how Agartes knew that it was his son’s head inside the box. –Jaeth’s Eye It goes on to describe the aftermath of the massacre of Agartes Allaicras’ family some hundred or so years before the starts of the …
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