Clinton D. Harding - Fantasy Author

Author of young adult fantasy and science fiction

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Review | The Last Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

September 10, 2013 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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  Your blood-red skies are filled with smoke. Your bleach-white histories with lies. You walk sleeping. Wake senseless. Breathing deep of toxic blooms and forgetting all that has gone before. But I remember. I remember when two brothers waged bloody war over the right to sit in their father’s empty chair. I remember when orphaned […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: High Fantasy, Jay Kristoff, Last Stormdancer, Lotus War, Samurai, Steampunk, Stormdancer, Young adult

Review | The Fall of Five by Pittacus Lore

September 7, 2013 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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  Back Cover Summary: The Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadorians? John Smith—Number Four—thought that things would change once the Garde found each other. They would stop running. They would fight the Mogadorians. And they would win. But he was wrong. After facing […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Adventure, I Am Number Four, Lorien Legacies, Pittacus Lore, Science Fiction, Teen, X-Men, Young adult

Review | The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

August 18, 2013 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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  Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Adult, American Gods, Coraline, Fable, Fantasy, Gaiman, Magic, Patrick Rothfuss, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Young adult

Review | The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

June 22, 2013 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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  Summary from Goodreads.com: More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Chosen by the Master in a mysterious inception ceremony, Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. Rithmatists are humanity’s only defense against the Wild Chalklings — merciless creatures that leave mangled corpses in their wake. Having […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Brandon Sanderson, Gearpunk, Harry Potter, High Fantasy, Middle Grade, Rithmatist, Star Wars, The Goonies

Review | “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline

February 24, 2013 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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  Blurb from Goodreads.com: It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: 80's, Adventure, Ernest Cline, High Fantasy, Ready Player One, Science Fiction, Video Games

Review | “Stormdancer” by Jay Kristoff

January 29, 2013 By Clinton Leave a Comment

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  Book description from Goodreads: Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father Masaru are sent to capture one for the Shogun, they fear that their lives are over. Everyone knows what happens to those who fail him, no matter how hopeless the task. But the mission proves far less […]

Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Adventure, Fantasy, Japanese, Kristoff, Steampunk, Stormdancer, Young adult

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Free Short Stories from Clint

Merit Badges – a short story from the Our Monsters series

Three high school teens in the woods on a Friday night… some beers… skaters with a grudge… what could go wrong? Add in a couple of genetically created … Read More...

That Little Girl

A dark short story about one man’s oversight concerning his death.  Since dying was just not part of his daily routine, the man just went on with his … Read More...

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Want to know what I’m reading?

Clinton's Bookshelf: Currently-Reading

Kinslayer
Kinslayer
by Jay Kristoff
Knife of Dreams
Knife of Dreams
by Robert Jordan

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What have I recently read?

Clinton's Bookshelf: Recently Read

Steelheart
5 of 5 stars
Steelheart
by Brandon Sanderson
The King's Blood
5 of 5 stars
The King's Blood
by Daniel Abraham
The Last Stormdancer
5 of 5 stars
The Last Stormdancer
by Jay Kristoff
All Our Yesterdays
5 of 5 stars
All Our Yesterdays
by Cristin Terrill
The Fall of Five
4 of 5 stars
The Fall of Five
by Pittacus Lore

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