I’ve been really enjoying this series – it’s got some decent politics to it, and some nice romances, but none of it is particularly fraught – you know everything will turn out alright in the end. Princess Jalissa of the Elves and Prince Edmund of Escarland grew “close” during the captivity of Jalissa’s brother Farendel […]
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This is a novella in the Kinsmen series. We’re still on Dahlia, and two members of rival families need to team up to save both their families from bankrupty (and the scandal of having their spouses run off together). I enjoyed this immensely – Ramona and Matias are just great together, right off the bat.
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This book picks up at the end of The Lord of Stariel, with Hetta now confirmed as the Lord, and her relationship with Wyn on a new footing. This book is mostly told from Wyn’s point of view, and it’s an interesting one. Since he’s a prince of the Fae, we get a greater view
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I feel like I didn’t read as much this year, though looking at the raw numbers, I’m fairly on par with normal years. But I do feel like my mojo has gone away a bit – I feel like I’m not alone in this. It’s definitely been a weird year.
1. The Discovery of Middle Earth – Graham Robb I’m about forty percent of the way through this book, and I just can’t anymore. The author is writing about his ideas for the continental Celts’ cosmology, and why they built their towns were they did. They’re not bad ideas, but I don’t think they’re enough
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This the fourth of the Alpha and Omega books, and I’m still back a bit from where I’m up to the Mercy Thompson books. Here, the Fae have newly retreated to their reservations, and it seems that some of them are not happy to have had to this. They’re unleashing some of their worst against
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Thorn is a retelling of the “Goose Girl” fairy tale. Here, we have Princess Alyrra, who has absolutely no value to her own family, slated to marry into the family of the powerful kingdom they border. Alyrra’s not really sure why – her own kingdom is small, and she’s not sure what she can bring
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Taryn is an archaeologist working in the ruins of the elves, who vanished from their kingdom thousands of years ago. Problem is, you need a patron to work on the digs, and hers keep dying. So she’s also working as a bounty hunter, and her latest bounty manages to drag her into a wild adventure.
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I’m so happy for another Old Kingdom book, and this one is about Sabriel’s parents, and how they met. At the very beginning, Terciel is a young boy in an orphanage, when his great-great-aunt, the current Abhorsen, comes to find him. You actually find out that his sister, who he barely remembers, had been the
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October Daye is a changeling, with a human father and fae mother. She’s actually done fairly well for herself, becoming a knight in one of the courts local to San Francisco. Knights are generally pure bloods, so it’s a hard won honor. At the very beginning of the book, she’s investigating the disappearance of her
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