Tag: Michael Hooten

  • Eat This While You Read That: Michael Hooten

    Eat This While You Read That: Michael Hooten

    Both the First Reader and I have enjoyed Michael Hooten‘s Cricket series very much, finding them to be high fantasy without over-reliance on tropes and thus refreshing to read. His characters are lively, so it came as no surprise to find a note appended to the recipe he sent me. The book we recommend for…

  • Curmudgeon Reviews: Cricket Trilogy

    Curmudgeon Reviews: Cricket Trilogy

    Written by Sanford Begley Michael Hooten has a trilogy about a Celtic Bard. The trilogy is named Cricket’s Song. It starts with A Cricket Learns to Sing moves through A Cricket At Court and finishes with The Cricket That Roared. It is a YA but don’t let that stop you. The story follows a destined lad…

  • Review: Cricket Learns to Sing

    I was asked if I would like to review this charming little story while it was on a free give-away, and I’m not sorry that I read it. Classic fantasy, the story follows a boy as he is growing into maturity. While it employs various cliches of the orphan with a mysterious past, and the…

  • Human Wave Garage Sale!

    Human Wave Garage Sale!

    Guest post by Sabrina Chase, who was kind enough to organize this first collaborative effort for Human Wave authors.  The Human Wave Garage Sale When did it become fashionable for published fiction to be full of self-loathing for qualities most intelligent humans value? Where’s the adventure, the courage, the fun? We suppose it was about the…