This is The Last Word, I’m BenjaminRandall and this is my website of novel reviews. Here on the home page there are the two most recently written reviews. The featured reviews page holds a list of my favorite books, the books featured there I would recommend to anyone. The archives hold a comprehensive list of all of the books I have reviewed sorted alphabetically by the author. A little about me is I am a multimedia artist, web developer and author living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Please enjoy your stay!
Jim Butcher’s Storm Front is the first novel in his popular series The Dresden Files. The series is an interesting concept; it takes the style of the classic first person detective mysteries and throws in magic. That means that it includes everything that goes with magic such as wizards and demons.
Butcher’s writing style is fast paced and little twists in the story keep the reader guessing. Although the story itself is full of suspense the main character’s quips, thoughts and general personality give it a fun atmosphere.
In the novel a police consultant, Harry Dresden, is called in by the Chicago Police Department to help investigate an unusual case. The case involves a double homicide where the victims have had their hearts ripped out with magic. Why are they calling in Dresden? Because he’s a wizard. There is also a wizard’s council, and they believe that Dresden is actually the murderer. So now Dresden has to find the murderer before he takes the blame.
Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name Of The Wind is the first novel in his series The Kingkiller Chronicle. The Name of the Wind was recommended to me by a friend so I gave it a try, and I’m glad I did. The story draws the reader in and it’s hard to put the book down.
The majority of The Name Of The Wind is written from a first person perspective and it is written well. Rothfuss keeps the story fast paced and exciting, and the author’s world itself is well built. The main character, Kvothe, is witty and charming, and is surrounded by an excellent cast of support characters.
In the story a famous young man recounts the adventures of his short, yet eventful, life to a chronicler. The young man tells the chronicler that his tale will take three days to tell. The Name Of The Wind records what the young man says on the first day of the three. He tells of how he started as the son of the leader of a group of travelling entertainers who after his parent’s deaths ended up living on the streets of a large city. After surviving for several years he decides to go follow his dream and attempt to earn acceptance into the university, a well-recognized school.
