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Necrobane – Daniel M. Ford

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This is a really interesting world, and I like how the magic works – Aelis has some interesting abilities fused in a different way. She’s also a reckless idiot sometimes, and it’s a good thing she has friends looking out for her. We learn a lot more about the raised dead we met in the […]

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The Dark Lord’s Daughter – Patricia C. Wrede

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Kayla knows she’s adopted, but it’s a shock when a masked man walks up to her (and her mom and brother) at the state fair. He announces she’s the heir to his deceased dark lord, who he’s been searching for for years, and whisks the three of them off to Zaradwin. This book is a

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Stone and Sky – Ben Aaronovitch

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I enjoyed this book – more or less the entire Folly crew, as well as Bev, the twins, and Peter’s extended family, are up in Aberdeenshire for a holiday. And some incident cryptid hunting. The point of view switches between Abigail and Peter, which I rather enjoyed. This book seems to be very controversial in

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Tower of Thorns – Juliet Marillier

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It’s been about a year since the events of Dreamer’s Pool, and Blackthorn and Grim are at the king’s court when Lady Geilis arrives, begging for help, as a monster has has come to a tower in her land, and its wails have plunged everyone and everything into a great depression. The tower is surrounded

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Cast in Fury – Michelle Sagara

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I really like the world building in this series. A decently large part of this story deals with the fall out with events of the last book, and the villain ends up being a very worthy call back to an earlier story. And that’s not even the main event! Kaylin’s sargeant, the only Leontine in

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Ladies of the Lake – Caitlin and John Matthews

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This is a long standing item in my (actual physical) to read pile, left over from my really into King Arthur and vaguely pagan days. And it’s fine. The authors highlight nine women in the Arthur legends, exploring their roots in older tales. Some hit better than others – there’s just a lot more information

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Fated – Benedict Jacka

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Alex Verus runs a magic shop in London. He’s also a mage. He’s not Harry Dresden. I liked the set up of the world in this book. Magic here is hidden, but there are people that are mildly magic that get drawn into the orbit of the magic users. We meet one of them in

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Magic Triumphs – Ilona Andrews

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I finished a series! (Ok, fine, they ended up extending this series, so there’s more to read, but I finished a unit of published books, which is a big deal for me!) The book starts with the birth of Kate and Curran’s son Conlan, and jumps ahead to him being a very precocious toddler, which

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A Civil Campaign and Winterfair Gifts – Lois McMaster Bujold

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I ended up getting the Miles in Love omnibus even though I own Komarr on its own, just for the simplicity of getting Winterfair Gifts in the bargain. I loved A Civil Campaign. I adore Ekaterin, and Miles completely floundering about like an idiot when he finally finds the woman for him was adorable. I

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Libriomancer – Jim C. Hines

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This is a fun premise – some people have the ability to reach into books and pull thing out from them. They have to be popular books – the amount of reading and energy people are putting into them helps the magic. Johannes Gutenberg (yes, that Gutenberg) has joined them all into an organization to

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