Lucas Stoffel

Children of the Mind is the book where Orson Scott Card stops pretending the Ender saga is about aliens or politics or military strategy and admits what it's always been about: the soul. Whether you have one. Whether it can be divided. Whether it survives when the body it's housed in starts to fail. This is metaphysical science fiction, and it is deeply, almost defiantly strange.

Dust does what a final book should do: it answers the remaining questions, delivers the confrontation the series has been building toward, and earns its ending. It doesn't reach the heights of Wool's mystery or Shift's revelations, but it brings the trilogy to a satisfying close. Dust is a direct extension of Apple TV's Silo Season 2

Morning Star concludes the Red Rising trilogy with a full-scale revolution, devastating losses, and a finale that refuses to be clean. Five stars. Book Review.

"The Magician's Land" Book Review: I don't know how to talk about this book without getting emotional, so I'm not going to try to be cool about it. The Magician's Land is the ending the Magicians trilogy deserved, and it's the ending Quentin Coldwater deserved, and I did not expect it to make me feel the way it did.

Let me tell you something about Stephanie Garber: she understands that the best fairy tales are the ones where love might actually kill you. Not metaphorically. Not in a "love hurts" pop song kind of way. In a "the person you're falling for might literally be cursed to destroy you" kind of way. A Curse for True Love is the finale of the Once Upon a Broken Heart trilogy, and it delivers on that promise with theatrical flair. If you haven't read the first two books, stop here