Miyara may have left the royal family behind, but they’re not done with her. All of her royal sisters show up in town, and it’ll be up to all of them to work together to save the world. This was a very satisfying end to the trilogy. I realized one of the things I really […]
Royal Tea Service – Casey Blair Read More »
If I’m being brutally honest – this book is a filler story. But it’s a filler story between some fairly important action in the last book (in which one mentor of the main characters betrays the school they attend, and therefore causes the death/probable death of two other mentors), and the last book in the
Tongue Eater – John Bierce Read More »
The first thing I need to note about this book is that my mother and I ended up reading it at the same time. Keep in mind, I got this as a Kindle deal, so it’s been around long enough to merit the discount. (And I even bought it last December.) My mother had gone
Witch King – Martha Wells Read More »
This is fun book. Edith is a cleryman’s daughter in vaguely Victorian England. They’ve never known much about his childhood – he was sent off to boarding school very young, and never went home. So it’s a great suprise when a letter reaches them that his brother and his nephew have died, leaving him the
Wormwood Abbey – Christina Baehr Read More »
Elspeth is infected with magic, in a kingdom where that will get you killed. Sent off to live with her aunt and uncle, she’s kept away from court, but is drawn back in for the Equinox celebrations. The only official magic allowed are Providence Cards, created by the Shepherd King, who sought to protect the
One Dark Window – Rachel Gillig Read More »
This is a bit of a fish out of water tale, of the year the author spend teaching in Iceland, just after their banking crash in the late 00’s. The author is from England, so it was a little funny to see some of the things she found alien about life there that I probably
Names for the Sea – Sarah Moss Read More »
This one hits a little differently than the prior Wayward Children books. Antsy has lot a lost in her life, starting with the loss of her father when she was five. Her mother meets someone new, and that causes another kind of loss. She knows that he is no good, but no one
Lost in the Moment and Found – Seanan McGuire Read More »
This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the sleeper is a prince in need of rescue, and the rescuer is a noblewoman turned treasure hunter who also happens to be under a curse. She’s fallen in with another princess turned exile (and expert axe welder) who’s totally falling in love with a Red Riding
The Bone Spindle – Leslie Vedder Read More »
What I really love about this author and this series is the range of stories she manages to work into this world. You never really know what you’re going to get in each book. This is a very quiet book – it starts with Miles making an incredibly stupid (and uncharacteristic) mistake – he
Memory – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
What an interesting book. It’s told from two viewpoints – the princess on a world long ago colonized by Earth, and the last of the anthropologists sent by a later version of Earth explorers to study their far-flung, long lost colonies. You get a perfect collision of magic and science, and a really good examination
Elder Race – Adrian Tchaikovsky Read More »
