Don't be fooled by the cover of this book. The title and the cover easily creates associations to cheap pulp fiction of the type filled with sappy romance, unicorns and fantasy worlds. Like the posters everybody had on their walls in the eighties. But it just ain't so. This is science fiction at it's best.

The series about Acorna is some of McCaffreys best writing, and she has written a lot. This book is one of her later works and she has started a wonderful cooperation with Margret Ball, creating a near to perfect book.Read more »»

This is the second book in a series of six books about Acorna written by Anne McCaffrey. The book can be read by itself, but one gets much more from it if one knows the prehistory and has read the first book in the series - even though you get a good summary of the prehistory in the first chapter.

The same rules that applied for the first book apply for this book also: The cover and the title give a very wrong impression of what type of book this actually is. It looks like pulp fiction, the type with horses, unicorns and driveling love stories. Don't be fooled.Read more »»

1984 is science fiction at it's absolute best. We enter a future version of 1984 were "Big brother" rules. This is a cracking good read, excitement and a clear political warning all at the same time.

Many people use this book as an argument when discussing surveillance which just isn't quite right. This story isn't about total surveillance (only the middle class is snooped on).Read more »»

This is a book that should never have been written. McCaffrey should never have continued this series and should have let the series die with the books about Acorna. The story is dull, boring and very predictable. The main characters are bleak shadows of what they once were and the new characters are not very believable and it almost seems like they were created in frustration while trying to push the story forward.

There is no drive to the story. It resembles a plastic bag floating meaninglessly in a river.Read more »»

This is the third book in the original trilogy about Shannara, and it doesn't disappoint. The books is at least as exciting as it's predecessors and a book every fantasy lover must read. On the cover there is a quote stating that if you haven't read Terry Brooks you haven't read fantasy, a quote not that far from the truth.

Brooks has, over the last to books, matured greatly as a fantasy author. All of the cliches found in the first book is gone.Read more »»

A young boy looses his parents and inherits the title Lord from his father. A body appears in the woods and a servant the young boy has befriended becomes the prime suspect. Meanwhile the boys grandmother wants the boy to leave the cloister and come home so she can form his mind in her image. Yet another mystery only solvable my Cadfael has appeared.

This is a very good book and describes the medieval England in a fantastic way. Ellis Peter really knows how, in addition to creating fantastic stories, to create authentic characters and environments.Read more »»

"The Elfstones of Shannara" is the second book Terry Brooks wrote in a huge series about the Shannara world and is part of the original trilogy. This is genuine fantastic reading. Brooks matured greatly after writing the first Shannara book, and though the first book was well written it cannot compete with the second book. This is written art.

The story takes place two generations after the first book and the main characters are new. Even though some of the original characters are still included it's quite obvious that the legacy has been passed on.Read more »»

Acorna's Children is the first book in a new series by McCaffrey written as a followup to the series about Acorna. The series about Acorna is quite good, and McCaffrey should have let dead horses lie. This followup is completely unnecessary. The book is dull and boring and should never have been written.

It's quite obvious that McCaffrey has started writing just for the sake of writing. She has lost her passion. The story is not exciting or well written. The book is full of "padding".Read more »»

This is yet a fantastic book about the dragon world of Pern by McCaffrey. The quality of her writing is back to what it was at the beginning of this series written in the seventies. This is mostly due to the fact that she has welcomed her son Todd in. The book is written in cooperation between the two, and Todd has obviously added a lot to the series.

The book is split in two separate parts, but the stories are connected and what a story it is. This time it's not the dragon riders who are in focus. Instead the book focuses on other people living on Pern.Read more »»

Anne McCaffrey has finally let her son, Todd McCaffrey, enter the Pern world and has written two books in cooperation with him. This is the first book about Pern Todd has written on his own, with huge success. The series about Pern has over the years lost some of it's spunk. Quite obviously Anne just doesn't have the inspiration she used to.

Dragon's blood on the other hand definitely is fresh blood. This book is at least as good as the first books Anne wrote in the seventies. It's down right fantastic.Read more »»