There’s something about beginning a new year that I’ve always found invigorating. I conceive new story ideas, gain a renewed focus, and I feel a…
There’s something about beginning a new year that I’ve always found invigorating. I conceive new story ideas, gain a renewed focus, and I feel a…
Warning: the following post contains spoilers for A Test of Honor and The People’s Champion, In A Test of Honor, Sir Aidan Franklin fought on…
While it’s easy to look back on 2016 with the pessimistic eyes of a bored cynic, I have to say that it was, for me,…
There’s nothing quite like a good book. Good books engage our imagination, our senses, and our emotions in a way that other mediums can’t. Good…
Getting Practical Last time, I wrote about my goal to create a quick and fun tactical game based on Mass Effect. This time, I’d like…
Big News, everybody! I will be exhibiting at this year’s Alternative Press Expo (APE) on October 5-6, 2014 in San Francisco! APE is part of…
In addition to working an exhausting (but enjoyable!) side-job, taking my family on various vacation adventures, and busily writing A Test of Honor’s sequel (The People’s Champion – coming fall 2015!), I have also been working on a new mailing list freebie.
I finished the second book in the Hunger Games Trilogy, Catching Fire, about a year and a half ago. Last week, I finished the third and final book in the series, Mockingjay. What took me so long? Basically, I just wasn’t ready for it to end yet. I fell in love with the characters and I found the premise fascinating. Now that I’ve read book 3, though, I really can’t wait to see the movie and I hope they treat it with the same care and passion the crew and cast have brought to the previous adaptations.
WARNING: This post contains spoilers from A Test of Honor.
After reading the first three trade paperbacks, I’m not sure whether Saga is a beautiful love story with a wartime setting, a brilliant war story with a love story as a plot device, or a perfect amalgam of both. One thing is certain: Saga is brilliant.
Saga is the story of war run amok, and readers are not spared from the practical horrors and visceral realities of proxy warfare. Two peoples, the techno-savvy winged warriors of Landfall and the spell-casting horned-headed mages of moon Wreath, are locked in a bitter feud with plenty of blood on everyone’s hands. Because the two worlds depend on one another to maintain a stable orbit, they fight their battles on other planets, essentially drawing the entire galaxy into their war. Horrific atrocities have been committed by both sides, and in some cases entire indigenous peoples on the proxy planets have been driven to extinction. And in the midst of this war, a baby has been born. A baby whose father bears the horns of Wreath, but whose mother has the wings of Landfall.