This outing in the Wayward Children stories sees an ending of sorts to the story of Jack and Jill – the twins who had found their way to the Moors. Jack had had to sacrifice Jill to get them back to the Moors, but all was not lost, because Jack’s mentor on the Moors can […]
Come Tumbling Down – Seanan McGuire Read More »
Lilac is the heir to the throne of Brittany, in the Middle Ages. She has one big problem – she has the ability to speak the Darkling tongue, and so can communicate with all the creatures in the Broceliande forest. All the regular people, her rather unpleasant fiancé included, don’t like that ability, so she’s
Disenchanted – Brianna Sugalski Read More »
This is a sweet little story – Keturah charms her way to live another day by telling Lord Death a story, and those extra days are spent in her town, among the people she’s grown up with. It’s a very generic medieval type town, with fun little characters to meet along the way. I think
Keturah and Lord Death – Martine Leavitt Read More »
I very much enjoyed this book. Maia is the overlooked fourth son of the Emperor of the Elflands, the only child of a political marriage to a Goblin princess after his father’s most beloved wife had died. They were fairly quickly banished to the hinterlands, and with three older brothers, Maia never expected to ever
The Goblin Emperor – Katherine Addison Read More »
This took me quite a while to get through – it’s an homage to Jack Vance’s Dying Earth series, and the writing is very true to the unique tone and world that he created. Which I very much enjoy, but can’t take in large doses. (I don’t tend to like authors with a more florid
Songs of the Dying Earth – edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois Read More »
Having forgotten to read the blurb on this book before I stowed the dust cover (we have this in hard cover, and I hate reading books with a loose dust cover), I was mighty confused when Peter suddenly had left the police force and was getting hired on as security at a tech company in
False Value – Ben Aaronovitch Read More »
This novella is set in the world of the Rivers of London series, but takes place in Germany, without any of the regular characters making an appearance, except as a passing reference. Tobias Winter is Germany’s version of Peter Grant, and we get to follow a case of his. We get to meet some different
The October Man – Ben Aaronovitch Read More »
Another great Penric and Desdemona story. Pen and Des are summoned to the healer’s house over a most unusual illness. What they find is even more unusual than the healer had suspected. A man who was fished out of the harbor is actually dead, but appears to be alive because he’s being inhabited by another
Knot of Shadows – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
I’ve been cycling through books recently – I’ve actually got three open books on the Kindle at the moment that I haven’t been able to keep attention on long enough to finish. (I’ll probably nope out on one by the end of the year, and another is a short story anthology that I’m really enjoying,
The Hermit of Eyton Forest – Ellis Peters Read More »
This is a fun anthology of darker turning fairy tale interpretations. The darkness is pretty variable – in some cases, it’s just using themes that are considered dark. And like most anthologies, some of the stories are definitely better than others. There were two different interpretations of the Morrigan that I enjoyed, and “Magic After
