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The Masked City – Genevieve Cogman

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Irene is now the Librarian in Residence in her particular alternate world, with her apprentice Kai. When he’s kidnapped, she finally has to track down his family (of royal dragons), and ends up diving more deeply into the Fae’s worlds of chaos then she ever thought she’d be able to go. It was definitely interesting […]

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A Shadow Bright and Burning – Jessica Cluess

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Henrietta Howel has power over fire, and has therefore always feared being found out by the royal sorcerers, because women should not weld magic. But she is finally discovered, and it turns out that they’ve been waiting for a girl that can weld fire. And so she is apparently the Chosen One. I enjoyed this

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Summer Wildflowers of the Northeast – Carol Gracie

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Interesting overview of flowers in the Northeast. It was nice to see some plants outside of normal New England stomping ground. The author’s chosen some interesting groupings, and I learned quite a bit, some of it seemingly random, from the accompanying essays. This is the kind of book I wish I had the time to

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Down Among the Sticks and Bones – Seanan McGuire

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

I am very quickly becoming very impressed with this author – she’s written what could be an incredibly dark story with such gorgeous language that it transcends the darkness. Jack and Jill are twins being jammed into roles planned by parents who know nothing about raising children, when they find their way through a door

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The Physicians of Vilnoc – Lois McMaster Bujold

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

It’s a measure of how much I trust this author that I read a story of hers about a plague. Because I can safely say that for the most part, too soon. (I have Connie Willis’ The Doomsday Book sitting in my TBR pile, and though I have heard nothing but good things about it,

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Spy, Spy Again – Mercedes Lackey

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is the last book in the series about Herald Mags’ children – in this case, his youngest son Tory is off for an adventure with his best friend, Prince Kyril, to help out Mags’ cousin who leads the Sleepgivers. Bey’s daughter has disappeared, and he needs help to find her. I enjoyed this story

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Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Alex Stern was a teenage junky falling further and further into a terrible life, until the day that she woke up from a binge, with several people, including her very best friend, dead around her, not remembering anything that happened. And in the hospital, a dean from Yale arrived to give her a spectacular opportunity.

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Seasons of the Storm – Elle Cosimano

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

I had a really hard time finishing this book, for no particularly good reason. If I really had to nail something down, I think it was just a little bit too much teenage angst for me. The books goes between a couple different viewpoints – primarily Jack and Fluer. They’re both Seasons – young people

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Kingdom of Ash and Briars – Hannah West

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This story is a combination of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Mulan (per the blurbs at least – I see where they wanted to go with that, but I don’t agree). It’s an interesting concept. Bristal is an elicromancer – a now rare type of immortal that should be helping the mortals. The other two elicromancers

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The Girl with Ghost Eyes – M. H. Boroson

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Li-lin is the daughter of a Daoist priest in 19th century Chinatown in San Francisco. She has the ability the see spirits, and is a priestess herself. She’s also recently widowed. When her husband’s best friend brings another man to her for help, she instantly does, but quickly discovers that they’re trying to get to

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