In this final book of the Black Jewels Trilogy, Jaenelle has become Queen of Ebon Askavi, embracing her full power, and old enemies have come back to try to remove her from the throne. There was a definite, satisfying end to Jaenelle’s relationship with her biological family, who had not understood her powers, and put […]
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Read fort the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Gen landed in the King’s prison because of his bragging. After months chained in his cell, he’s released by the the Magus, the king’s scholar, who wants him to help him steal a treasure. Gen, the Magus, the Magus’ two apprentices and a guard leave Sounis and travel
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Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a thoroughly modern woman. A recently divorced mother of two small children who’s also a lawyer, her life is full of issues – she’s still angry with her ex-husband, the kid’s daycare provider gives her a one day notice that she needs to move back to Mexico, and she’s just been passed
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I was impatient enough to immediately pick up the second Black Jewels book. The stories picks up up with Jaenelle coming to terms with the rather terrible event that ended the first book, and going to live with Saetan and his sons in Kaeleer. With Jaenelle actually living with him, Saetan begins to see first
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Centuries ago, a Black Widow witch saw in her web that something new was coming – a Witch more powerful than even the High Lord of Hell, who would rule the Blood with her incredible power. This is the first book of a series I’d accidentally stumbled into the middle of for my first read,
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I managed to score Letters from Pemberley and More Letters from Pemberley from the same Bookmooch member, so I figured I might as well read them together, especially since they’re both pretty quick reads. (Ideal for the worst heat wave in my lifetime, let me tell you.) I was able to give the first a
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I stopped by the Borders liquidation sale after work yesterday. To be perfectly honest, it was in part to extend the amount of time I’d be able to stay in air-conditioned comfort. I told myself I could check cookbooks (I decided to go for canning), and craft books, as well as magazines. Anything else, I
Letters from Pemberley tells of Elizabeth Darcy, nee Bennett’s, first year as a married woman, and mistress of Pemberley, through the lens of letters to her sister Jane. It’s not the worst Pride and Prejudice continuation I’ve ever read, but I won’t say it’s my favorite, either. The author uses characters from Austen’s other works
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. The Morgan family lost their mother in an auto accident, and not long after, their father, David, decides to take the two younger children, Peter and Becky, to Wales with him, where he’s been given a visiting professor’s position at the university. Jen, the oldest, is to stay
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Evvy had left her home in Chammur to become an apprentice Stone Mage at the Winding Circle school. For the most part, her life is good, but she ends up on a trip to the far away Battle Islands after she pushes too far in a fight with
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