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Category: Literary Reviews

February 11, 2022

Review: An Empty Throne, Robert Fabbri

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is a solid continuation of the series though for established readers there is little new: the characters continue…

February 9, 2022

Review: Swedish defensive fortress warfare in the Great Northern War 1702-1710, Ulf Sundberg

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Sundberg’s published dissertation looks into how Sweden failed in its preeminent task: that of fortifying it’s borders for…

January 26, 2022

Review: Return of the Crimson Guard, Ian C. Esslemont

Rating: 3 out of 5 While generally a good instalment in the Malazan series, this book was overall a little bit too haphazard: the…

January 20, 2022

Arvustus: Sama hästi kui venelaste maa, Kaarel Piirimäe

Hinnang: 3 / 5 Hr Piirimäe doktoritöö, mis on siin avaldatud, on küll mastaapne ja huvitav, kuid minu jaoks oli midagi puudu. Kuna tegu…

January 12, 2022

Review: Letters from Father Christmas, J.R.R. Tolkien

Rating: 5 out of 5 I knew about this title for a long while, and yet I never thought to pick it up. What…

January 10, 2022

Review: Master of the Senate, Robert A. Caro

Rating: 6 out of 5 Every now and then, a book comes by that strikes the reader on every level. Once again, the next…

January 7, 2022

Review: The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, J.R.R. Tolkien

Rating: 4 out of 5 This is a reworking of a British and Breton myth to a consistent poetic story with the original Breton…

January 3, 2022

Arvustus: Stenhus’id, arx’id, torne’id…, Ants Hein

Hinnang: 4 / 5 Siin on tegu pigem kataloogiga kui ajalookirjeldusega aga sellegipoolest on raamatus palju väga huvitavat infot. Tegu samuti ka rohkem teatmikuga…

December 31, 2021

Review: The Story of Kullervo, J.R.R. Tolkien

Rating: 5 out of 5 The story of Turin Turambar is definitely one of the finest that Mr Tolkien wrote; ‘The Story of Kullervo’…

December 28, 2021

Review: Sunstone, Octavio Paz Lozano

Rating: 5 out of 5 There is only one way to assess something as profound, on so many different levels, as ‘Sunstone’, and that…

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