The Dark Hills Divide (The Land of Elyon #1) by Patrick Carman
There is some interesting aspects of the plot and the world building but for me the story was too passive and lacked tension and suspense. For some reason the ...
Year: 2015
The three big stories of modernity
So far there have been three widely influential stories about the rise of modernity: the Emancipatory, the Protestant, and the Neo-Thomist. The Emancipatory acc...
Swimming with Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War by Kevin Sites
Although many of the stories seem random, together they describe a people who are trying to find their way in a war that is tearing apart their country. These s...
The Day The Angels Fell by Shawn Smucker
The mythical elements are mixed well with a sort of coming of age story about friendships, family and loss. While it isn't exactly a thriller there is a nice mi...
The Soul of the Marionette
If the only alternative to Gnosticism is Stoicism—if the intellect of man is forced to choose the wild outward spirit or the stern inward soul—then we have made...
Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking #3) by Patrick Ness
I enjoyed finishing up this series via audio book. I thought Ness really wrestled with some interesting aspects; ideas like the tension between the quest for pe...