Tag Archives: Stephen King

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY:FAVORITE SPOOKY SETTING

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Today, the guys in the Goodreads Top 5 Wednesday group have an interesting topic: FAVORITE SPOOKY SETTING! These can be settings that exist in books or ones you’d like to see in books. You can also use eerie, atmospheric settings. Macabre settings. … Continue reading →

Posted in Top Five Wednesday | Tagged Barbara Hambly, creepy fantasy, creepy fantasy settings, Dreaming Cities, Favorite Spooky Settings, Guy Haley, Manifest Delusions, Michael R. Fletcher, Peter Newman, Stephen King, the dark tower, The Vagrant, Top 5 Wednesday | 1 Comment

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY: GATEWAY BOOKS TO MY FAVORITE GENRES

Posted on September 28, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Today, the guys in the Goodreads Top 5 Wednesday group had a great topic: Gateway Books to My Favorite Genres! Another great topic again this week. One I can’t wait to get to, because who doesn’t like to introduce readers to your favorite … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Game of Thrones, alternate history, best alternate history, best apocalyptic, best fantasy, best grimdark, best science fiction, Fatherland, Foundation, george r.r. martin, isaac asimov, Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns, Robert Harris, Stephen King, The Stand, Top 5 Wednesday | 1 Comment

TOP TEN TUESDAY

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! This is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where a new top ten list hits the web every week! This week our topic is … MY FAVORITE SERIES WITH POST-APOCALYPTIC SETTINGS … Continue reading →

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday | Tagged Barbara Hambly, Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin, Cormac McCarthy, Darwath, Luke Scull, Mark Lawrence, Peter Newman, Peter V. Brett, post-apocalyptic fantasy, Prince of Thorns, Richard Ellis PReston Jr, S.M. Stirling, Stephen King, the broken empire, the dark tower, THE DEMON CYCLE, The Grim Company, The Peshawar Lancers, The Road, The Vagrant, Top Ten Tuesday | 12 Comments

FRIDAY FACE-OFF: GATEWAYS

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a new weekly meme hosted by Books by Proxy. Join us every Friday as we pit cover against cover, and publisher against publisher, to find the best artwork in our literary universe. This week our theme … Continue reading →

Posted in Friday Face-Off | Tagged fantasy covers, fantasy covers with gateways, Friday Face-Off, Roland Deschain, Stephen King, the dark tower, The Drawing of the Three, The Gunslinger | 10 Comments

TOP TEN TUESDAY

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! This is a weekly feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where a new top ten list hits the web every week! This week our topic is … Ten Books I Feel Differently About … Continue reading →

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday | Tagged adventure, Barbara Hambly, Brust, Crown of Stars, Dark Tower, Dragon Hunters, dragons, Epic, Fantasy, Fred Saberhagen, Glen Cook, Half a King, Jhereg, Joe Abercrombie, Kate Elliott, magic, Marc Turner, modesitt, recluce, Stephen King, sword and sorcery, The Black Company, Top Ten Tuesday | 4 Comments

BOOKS WITH HARD TOPICS

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Today, the guys in the Goodreads Top 5 Wednesday group had a great topic: Books with hard topics. Not hard as in “intellectually challenging” or “difficult to comprehend”, but hard as in the subject matter was tough for my sensibilities to take. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lists, Top Five Wednesday | Tagged beyond redemption, Cormac McCarthy, Draka, Lord Foul's Bane, Michael R. Fletcher, S.M. Stirling, Stephen King, STEPHEN R. DONALDSON, The Road, The Stand, Top Five Wednesday, Under the Yoke | 8 Comments

MY LEAST FAVORITE BOOKS IN MY FAVORITE SERIES

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Bookwraiths

Today, the guys in the Goodreads Top 5 Wednesday group had a great topic: My least favorite books in my favorite series. And all the participates had great lists with well respected books from big name series. Many of the choices pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in Lists | Tagged Barbara Hambly, janny wurts, King of Thorns, Knight of the Demon Queen, Least favorite fantasy books, Mark Lawrence, raymond e. feist, Servant of teh Empire, Stephen King, STEPHEN R. DONALDSON, the broken empire, the dark tower, The Runes of the Earth, Top 5 Wednesday | 5 Comments

BEST STANDALONE FANTASY NOVELS (UPDATED)

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Bookwraiths

A standalone novel to me is a book that is self-contained and independent, able to be understood and appreciated without the need to read anything else. Some fantasy novels are written to be a one shot, standalone story, while others … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy, Lists | Tagged best epic fantasy standalone novels, best grimdark standalone novels, best standalone fantasy novels, Brandon Sanderson, David Gemmell, fantasy novels not in a series, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, must read fantasy novels, standalone fantasy, Stephen King | 14 Comments

THE DRAWING OF THE THREE (THE DARK TOWER #2) by STEPHEN KING

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Bookwraiths

My rating is 2 out of 5 stars. The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower #2) is usually proclaimed by readers as either “The book that truly got me hooked on The Dark Tower series!” or as “The book … Continue reading →

Posted in 2 Stars, Cross-Genre, Fantasy, Post-apocalyptic, Science Fiction | Tagged Dark Tower, Dark Tower The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, Stephen King, the dark tower, The Drawing of the Three, The Gunslinger | 6 Comments

TOUGH TRAVELLING — KNIGHTS

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Bookwraiths

Every Thursday, Nathan over at Fantasy Review Barn hosts a weekly party where blogs get to follow along with Diana Wynne Jones’ hilarious book The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel listing their favorite books with … Continue reading →