This book is nominally set in the Grishaverse, but is all the fairy tales they would tell there. You can definitely see the parallels to tales in our normal world. My favorite story was “Ayama and the Thorn Wood”, which is sort of a cross between “Cinderella” and “Beauty and the Beast”. The younger son […]
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Fawn has fled her family. She’s done an incredibly stupid thing, and feels the only way to remedy it is to run away. On her way, she runs into Dag – a member of a patrol of Lakewalkers. The Farmer folk are a bit leery of the Lakewalkers, who have magic, which they use to
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Pattern: Icy Seas by Hunter HammersenYarn: Knitpicks Palette in the Macaw, Serrano and Semolina colorways and Lichen and Lace Matte Sock in the Teal Tide colorwayNeedles: Size 2 DPNs We’re doing Christmas ornaments for my boss this year, and as soon as I realized I had the right colors in leftover yarn, I decided on
This novella is a bit of a sea change from the earlier Penric stories. Pen’s patron, the Princess Arch-Divine, has died, and he’s a bit adrift. He’s ended up in the service of the Duke of Adria, who sends him on a covert mission to meet with a general in a nearby land who’s contacted
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This is the second book in the Thursday Next series. Thursday is a cop in the Special Operations portion of the police in an alternate England. In the last book, she ends up married after various adventures that include going into the novel Jane Eyre, and changing the ending. Not too far into the book,
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Here’s what I now have on the go: A cowl in Lichen and Lace Matte sock, in the Pressed Flower colorway. This is the particular colorway that caught my eye in this yarn. I just thought it would make a nice cowl. I’m using the Bryce Canyon cowl by Courtney Mussatt as inspiration (there
Three girls wake up in a field with no memories, but knowing that they need to flee. They clearly have some magic ability, and they also know they’re FireSouls, magic makers that share the soul of a dragon. Problem with that being that FireSouls are generally thrown into magical jail. It’s about ten years later,
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Pattern: Eurydice by SpillyJaneYarn: Lichen and Lace Matte Sock in the Teal Tide colorwayNeedles: Size 2.5 DPNs I’ve had this pattern since I did the Three Irish Girls sock club back in (cough) 2011. Yowsers – how time flies. It’s nice – pattern is complex enough to be interesting. If I did it again, I’d probably
This book picks up immediately after the events of the novella “Alpha and Omega”. Charles Cornick came to Chicago to investigate Anna’s pack, finding them broken by the actions of the pack Alpha. She also discovers she’s an Omega wolf – outside of the pack structure, and highly valued because she can help keep the
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I managed to find this in the library’s ebook selection after I started Cry Wolf, and quickly realized there was a bit of the story missing. (Turns out to be “Alpha and Omega” in this book). I really enjoyed the stories here – it’s a wide range of time frames, including all the way back
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