Conrad’s Quest for Rubber by Leo A. Frankowski

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

This was the worst book of the series for me.

Leo takes the last couple of books and retells basically the same story from the view of a peasant who was at Okoitz and then joins the army, re-hashing the highlights of the other books.

Unfortunately for me, the magic was gone. I remember readign this book years ago and thinking it was just okay – but on reading it again I wasn’t even able to finish it. It just got to be too boring.

I will miss you Leo Frankowski. I really liked the Conrad series, and was sad to see you passed away. I would have loved to read a conquest of Europe set of Conrad books.

Dany Ban gets attacked by pre-zombie?

While at a radio event Danny Bonaduce agreed to let a woman give him a kiss. She thenwrapped both arms around his head and sunk her teeth into his check.

“They were tiny little Chucky teeth. Man, they just gnawed like piranhas,” Bonaduce said. “People are trying to pull her off me … I’m screaming like a baby.”

Personally, I’d be worried if I were him, and if I were his wife, I’d sleep with an axe next to my bed.  It looks like he might turn at any moment. That bite looks nasty…

Lord Conrad’s Lady by Leo A. Frankowski

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I have to say that this is my favorite time travelling series, but this one was the weakest one, it really trailed off.

I felt like after the war with the mongols was won, Leo had a panic moment and realized he wanted to have a few more fight scenes and finally kill the Tuetonic knights.

All well and good if that was the focus, but it trails off into long segments about law, and guilt, and even though some of Conrad’s musings are interesting, overall it takes away from the direction of the book.

When I read these the first time I don’t think the age differences between Conrad and his ladies bothered me (but I was like 16). Now as an adult with kids I do find it to be a bit creepy.

If you haven’t read the series yet, just stop at book 5 unless you really love Conrad, its kinder that way.

Or just wtf…

I just don’t think you can do this with a modern weapon, they just don’t have the same strength to them.  Something about the solid wood and shining metal just screams strength.  This weapon isn’t going to shatter when you drive the axe into a zombies head.

The Flying Warlord by Leo A. Frankowski

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Come on people, a trend downward from the first three books (on goodreads)? This is the best so far!!!

Who couldn’t love the scene where the mongol ambassador comes and asks for the young Duke to bow down, and to show how feirce they are, seveal of the mongols cut their own throats. Conrad asks if another would do it, and another, and the mongol ambassador gets mad, asking what he is tryign to do. Conrad’s reply is that if he can get them all to cut their down damn throats, he’s got nothing to worry about. And then, Krystyana duels one naked, playing with her prey before dispatching him.

That leads into the horse “race” as Conrad escorts them away on Anna and a group of others mounted on “Big People”.

And then everything ends in a glorious battle on the rivers as they try to keep the mongols out of Poland. I guess there is something about fighting a losing battle that appeals to me. The few versus the many against horrible odds.

Overall, if you like cheesy sci fi this is a great book for you.

And best of all, Baen finally fixed the MOBI issue so I was able to get it onto my kindle.

My dad just spent a week on some artist’s island taking a course on photography.

Apparently there was this bloody sock left under the “Altar to the Bloody Sock”

For some reason this really creeped me out. Something about the sock left under the rock disturbs me.

I’m sure it’s not connected to the missing people on the island….

The Radiant Warrior by Leo A. Frankowski

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The third book has some of my favorite scenes and kicks off the work to get to the battle with the mongols. My one complaint is the third book starts off a little slow, but makes up for it in the last third of the book. Still, that slow start cost it a start.

Awesome parts:
-The love story that starts out with Boris Novachek losing his hands. I guess I am a romantic at heart.
-Hell…the warrior school is started.
-Piotr’s fight with Baron Stefan. I love the fight and what comes after.
-Piotr’s love for Krystyana finally gets realized. The “fight/love” scene after he is knighted is one of my favorite parts of the third book.

I am looking forward to re-reading the next set of books, but I am not looking forward to the pain in the butt of getting them onto my devices from Baen books. What a horrible design.

Just sell them as a .mobi file please!!!!

Mommy, Why did you shoot Daddy in the Head?