This is a fun regency monster story. It has a really interesting twist on zombies. The French decided to go the route of getting to the English army through their wives. Some poisoned face powder was put out in London, and several hundred gentlewomen (and a few unlucky servants) died – and then woke back […]
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This is the second book in the trilogy that follows the founding of the Kingdom of Valdemar. Kordas’ people have escaped the empire, and are now journeying through the wild lands to the west. There are people there, and they’ve resolved to not overwhelm anyone that’s already settled, so they need to move on from
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The trellis down. It was already tipping, and I didn’t have time to take it down when we had a hurricane bearing down on us. Fortunately, the hurricane was more or less a bust in Southern Maine, but I took that as a sign, and just snipped all the bean stems this morning. I’ll let
This is a fun, regency set, but fantasy oriented, book. Gussie is the only non-magical member of the Werth family, a family infamous for their powers. But, when she’s kidnapped, she finds that she might be the most magical of them all. The story’s fairly basic, and you’ll get no real surprises out of it,
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Sherlock Holmes is dead – but Sarah, Nan and the Watsons know that that’s not true. He’s had to go to ground to defeat Moriarty. Moriarty is actually dead, but because he has a necromancer in his employ, that necromancer is doing his best to bring Moriarty back – which goes straight into rather grizzly
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Well, it’s September, and Mother Nature finally picked up on the fact that she didn’t torture us nearly enough with hot weather in August, so we got several days of humid 80s over the last week. I’ve pretty much given up any pretense of normalcy – I’m just rolling with whatever happens at this point.
In this book, fairy tale narratives exist in our real world, ready to send a person down a certain path, just because they were unlucky enough to be born with just the right characteristics to a fit a particular story. That’s where the ATI Management Bureau comes in – they’re a hidden government agency tasked
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Damn! We picked this book up in July, and for some reason, both the BF and I keep forgetting it’s there when we go to pick up a new book. I finally broke the curse, but now neither my BF or my mother have read it, and it’s just so spoilery, and I have therefore
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This was an interesting set up novel. Nyx woke up in Tempe, Arizona, with no memories of the past, and a note that her apartment and tuition were paid for. She’s out of school now, and has found that no one can remember her, and she also can’t leave Tempe. Out of desperation, the next
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Despite the fact that removing blighted leaves from the tomatoes seems to have become a full time job, I’m happy with where the garden is right now. The dahlias are finally out, and the tomatoes and zucchini are producing in a reasonable amount. (There are seven or eight tiny zucchini working since we got our
