Will I love The Dragonbone Chair?

There is a "realness" and melancholic quality to this story that immediately drew me in because every element, even the more fantastical ones, felt immensely believable.

Set in the richly detailed and lived-in world of Osten Ard, this first volume in the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Williams took its time to get the main plot moving, but I want to stress just how much I found that to be a good thing. It truly afforded me an opportunity to get to know the setting and characters intimately, so that by the time the plot kicked into high gear,… show more.

This is a series I read in high school, so I don’t remember the details as well as I’d like, but I do know that whenever I think of found family and friendship in epic fantasy, this is one of the first books that comes to mind.

The series primarily follows Simon, a young kitchen boy, through a grand and sweeping adventure that I think any epic fantasy fan can enjoy, but it is the companions he meets along the way and the relationships he builds with them that have stuck with me over the years. It is a book… show more.

I fell in love with the prose in this masterful series, and I very much found myself in the main character—just a happy-go-lucky boy thrown into the dark, cruel world.

At the time, all the loss, suffering, and heartache the characters endured throughout the series helped me process the loss of my grandparents. It’s dark, absolutely tear-jerking, and I love it.

This book introduces a very good series and was responsible for encouraging my love of science fantasy – some of which I write. While I have tried to keep away from more famous authors, this one got through because it really is that good.

As with all good science fantasy, it has various levels, some of the deepest making one think, or you can just go with the flow and enjoy the yarn. That is something I also strive to do with readers, well, I try to.

This series follows Simon, a lowly kitchen boy who has the habit of daydreaming while he should be working. Little knowing that some of those daydreams would become waking nightmares that sees him travelling the world searching for the lost swords of power. It is set in the world of Osten Ard and the king is dead. A long-dormant evil is unleashed into the world which seeks dominion overall. Tad Williams is a brilliant storyteller and I have learned a lot from his writing. The series is well worth diving into and immersing yourself in this amazing tale. I have… show more.