This book starts out with Rogan’s ex coming to him for help after her husband goes missing – no one else seems to be concerned, but Nevada and Rogan agree to take the case. What follows ends up being way bigger than you could have imagined, and leads to a pretty satisfying conclusion to Nevada’s […]
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This was an interesting set up – we have race of immortals that the ancient Egyptian gods ended up being based on. Kat is a more recent vintage, but her family includes some really ancient powers. She’s in retirement – having previously been an assassin for the Neheret Senate. Her power lies in ink, so
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I really appreciated the notes at the beginning of the book that went over the highlights of what to keep in mind if you’d read Red Sister a while in the past. And I particularly appreciated that the author specifically called out that Keot did not appear in the first book, because having Nona have
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Mona is a 14-year old baker, who happens to have a magic gift with bread. This is a story about how even what seems like small magic can save the world, and also that being a hero can really suck. (With a healthy dose of adults may not always be in the position to do
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Katharine Lundy is a middle child, and even worse, the child of her school’s principal. She’s always been good at following rules, so she quickly becomes invisible, since no one wants to risk friendship with the principal’s daughter. That’s when she first finds the door to the Goblin Market, where there are a few simple
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This is an interesting book. A biologist spends a year going back to the same small patch in a Tennessee forest, and you get a slice of the seasonal things happening there. He relates a lot of the tales out to the larger world, and you’d be surprised how many stories you end up getting
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Loved this book. Galadriel is at an international boarding school for young wizards. They’re basically trapped there for four years, and constantly under threat from a whole bunch of nasty, evil beasties, but everyone keeps coming because it’s safer than being out in the real world at that age. Graduation is when you fight your
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Penric’s brother in law Arisaydia is attacked by assassins from Cedonia (his former home), and Penric and Desdemona immediately see that something is seriously wrong. Someone is using demons as assassins, with the end results of these young demons burning out from killing someone. Arisaydia finds that there’s strife in the royal family, and he’s
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What an atmospheric little book. A man lives in a huge house full of statues – the bottom floor is often flooded by the sea, and the top floor is the domain of rain and storms. There is one Other that sometimes visits there, but our protagonist is happy being mostly alone – he’s the
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Half of Dora’s soul was stolen by a fairy lord when she was young, taking most of her emotion with it. Now grown, she’s the companion of her cousin Vanessa, and it’s only because of Vanessa that she’s going to London for the season. Once there, she manages to catch the attention of the Lord
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