The Book of Lies Trilogy

I have just finished the Book of Lies Trilogy by James Moloney (The Book of Lies, Master of the Books, and The Book from Baden Dark).
I loved every book and once I started reading I found it hard to put down. I have always loved the fantasy genre; there's just something about magic and mythical creatures that I love.
I have found another series by James Moloney called the Silver May Trilogy (Silvermay, Tamlyn, and Lucien). I only found out it was another series because I picked up the second book Tamlyn and read the blurb which suggested it had a book before it. I found it on the internet and sure enough there was a trilogy, so I hope the library has all three because I only saw Tamlyn.

Anyway, my rating for the Book of Lies Trilogy is 5/5. I really enjoyed these books and anyone who likes the fantasy genre will absolutely love these as well. Full of adventure and magic, The Book of Lies will show you the truth (hehehe, a bit cheesy I know).
:)

James Moloney

I just finished reading Master of the Books on the weekend. I had intended to read through the Easter holidays but everything else came up and I didn't get enough time.

The second book in James Moloney's trilogy is as good as the first one, if you don't mind all the easy to read foreshadowing. The ending, as usual, makes you want to pick up the next one and start reading immediately. Which is what I've done, of course. The Book from Baden Dark is now currently sitting in my bag, waiting to be read. The only problem is that I'm reading Allegient, by Veronica Roth, and Eldest, by Christopher Paolini at the same time. I've also gotten another one of Moloney's books out, Tamlyn, which I've discovered is the sequel to another book, Silvermay (I really need to check if a book is in a series or not before I get it out).

Anyway, I have a lot of good reading to get done and I can't wait to get started :)

Narnia is Awesome

I love the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. I have read nearly all of them: The Magician's Nephew, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle. Even though I haven't read them all I have watched the four BBC interpretations of the four most known books and also the newer versions. I discovered the series in the library at school the other day and so I made one of my friends start to read them. I thought, why not start reading them again, and over the weekend I read The Silver Chair and The Last Battle.

(Warning: spoilers ahead...if you haven't read The Chronicles of Narnia and you want to, don't keep reading because I talk about what's happening in the last 2 books a little bit)

I love the style of writing C. S. Lewis has chosen to do. The story is told by the view of a storyteller, recounting the stories and adding his own little spin offs here and there. I especially like the use of brackets in The Silver Chair, in particular where Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole and Puddleglum are having dinner with the not-known-then Prince Rillian. The Prince is mad, and during his long tale of how he got is madness and his curse, brackets are used to add little interruptions that The Prince himself says, (Honest Frogfoot, your cup is empty. Suffer me to refill it.) He interjects things like that into an important story he is trying to tell, which makes him seem even madder than he already is.

The Last Battle is a great ending to the series and the reader is left to imagine how wonderful the new Narnia is. There are only minimal descriptions which allows you to "see" the place in many different ways. I really like the religious ties this series has and how the new Narnia is kind of like a heaven, the true intended home for its inhabitants.

I can't stress how much I really love these stories enough. I am going to get out the first one again, Magician's Nephew...after my friend has finished with it of course :)

Master of the Books

I am really enjoying James Moloney's Master of the Books. I am about halfway through the book because I haven't had any time to read at all (which is probably because I've read 2 other novels, and am reading two other books that are in series as well. To be honest I have a a lot of reading to do!). As (I think) this book is written for a younger age (around 14-16 year olds, maybe 12 if they were as keen a reader as me at that age) there are I few things I picked up. There is a lot of obvious foreshadowing which I don't really mind at all, it lets you guess what is going to happen. The part I don't really like is that you can guess what's going to happen...I mean really guess and you're smack on right. The story line is too predictable and tries to build a climax up that you've already guessed way back in the beginning. Apart from that, I really love this book. I love the whole medieval/magic/fantasy genre, and I've never come across a book in this genre that I don't like :)

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Book reading for class

So I have just finished reading James Moloney's, Book of Lies, and am now reading the second one, Master of the Books (along with the second book of Christopher Paolini's The Inheritance Cycle, Eldest...I really need to stop reading two books at once!!). I really enjoyed the first book and wasn't sure if there was another one, well the ending did hint at there being a sequel but sometimes they do that and then there isn't actually one! Anyway I looked the book up and found out that there are actually 3 books...and the library at school has them all!! Really looking forward to reading them :)