January 2026 Wrap-Up: I Read 10 Books! (Including my New Favorite Sci-Fi)

So, there's just a lot of really cool elements going on here. There's a nice coming of age.

And it just is phenomenal. And I loved it.

I did those on audio and I didn't enjoy the experience.

Really great character-based fantasy. Really inventive ideas with dragons being more nature spirits and stuff like that.

I love Alton Brown's storytelling here. and yeah, I'm not sad that I read this.

I did those on audio and I didn't enjoy the experience.

This reminded me a lot of Firefly, great coming together, great band of characters, a lot of heartfelt moments, a lot of action, a lot of really creative science fiction elements, kind of reminded me of like Firefly mixed with a some Far Escape, at least early Far Escape, and then we've got the big like alien planet eaters or planet destroyers with the architects and we've got the ultimate kind of space travel.

Really, really good. I am excited for more because I know there's just a lot more Rowan stories coming from J.C.M. Byrne.

It's still really enjoyable to me to come back to Storm Front. It's like the fourth or fifth time I've read Storm Front and it was awesome.

With that out of the way though, this is really solid, [snorts] solid Pendergast writing here. We've got multiple cases, multiple timelines.

And I'm enjoying that one as well, but I'm not going to give you any additional thoughts because it's not out yet.

This is a top tier King book. Like this is definitely one that not enough people give enough respect to.

So, yeah, I really enjoyed this. Four out of five, really, really rewarding.