I first read Dune in college, so it’s been a hot minute. My main memory is of a certain heft to the text – there was weight there, and it took me a while to get through it. It’s still got a weight to it, but I read through it much faster this time. I’d […]
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Hart and Mercy have hated each other since they first met. Hart is a marshal on the border of the town where Mercy manages her family’s business. They’re undertakers, and Hart often has to bring what are essentially zombies back to Birdsall and Son when he catches them roaming about. It turns out, they’re both
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Here’s another book that was refreshingly different. This is an urban fantasy with a male lead. I really enjoyed its take on the various pantheons of the world. Atticus is Irish, so his pantheon is represented, but every pantheon is actually there to some degree. Atticus is the last Druid. Due to a deal with
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I really enjoyed this book – it’s about people outside of the regular magical structure of this particular world being able to find a place where they can wield power. Onna is obviously magically talented, and is educated in it as much as her small town can manage. When she applies to the country’s magical
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I preordered this book – I’d enjoyed the first two books in the series enough that I knew I wanted to read this sooner rather than later. I did enjoy it, but, it’s my least favorite of the three. This is the eldest sister – Arabessa’s – story. They are the daughters of the Thief
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Genevieve is a fake spiritualist – a trade she learned from her mother. Unfortunately, she’s caught at her game, and because of some other history we’ll eventually be acquainted with, she’s sure to be headed to gallows. But then there’s a miraculous reprieve – the lawyer for a rich estate that has recently suffered a
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This is a fun book – it’s a middle reader, so goes by pretty fast. The conceit is that Brandon Sanderson is the pen name a young man named Alcatraz, and is using this book to get his story out to those of us in the lands the Librarians are in charge of. They’re in
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It really sucks getting on the bad side of any of the big bads of this world. This particular book features some particularly nasty vampire infighting, with some rather serious implications for everyone else in the area (of course). This does seem like a bit of a placeholder story – nothing is particularly new, just
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I enjoyed this book a lot, partially for reasons outside of the actual story. First – I love that to move the Elemental Masters series into America, the author decided to use national treasure Dolly Parton as inspiration, and that she dedicated the book to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The second is that I work with
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Isaac and Bellatine Yaga haven’t seen each other in years, after Isaac left the family to go off on his own. They’re called together when they receive an inheritance – one they have to go pick up at a warehouse. It’s a house with chicken legs, and if you’ve noticed the last name, you know
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