Charlotte is a healer – probably the best of her generation, which has brought her into the highest circles of nobility in the Weird. She flees that after some terrible heartbreak, and ends up in the Edge. That’s where she meets Richard Mar (brother of Kalder Mar – one of the two main characters in […]
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Audrey Callahan belongs to a family of con artists in the Weird, but she’s gotten out. However, when her brother gets into some trouble, she agrees to one last heist with her father, to take care of him – then she’s done with her family for good. Unfortunately, that heist puts her in the path
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This book is set in the Grishaverse, but definitely comes across as grittier than the books in the Shadow and Bone series – those are more fairy tales. This is a heist book. Kaz Brekker has been given the heist opportunity of a lifetime, and each member of the crew he assembles has good reason
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We’re back in New York City with the modern version of the Greek gods. Selene Desilva (Artemis) and her human partner, Theo Shultz, get thrust right back into the middle of some ritual murders. This time, we find out a sect is trying to resurrect the god Mithras, by killing the other older gods. I
Winter of the Gods – Jordanna Max Brodsky Read More »
I really enjoyed this book. Circe’s a fairly minor character in the Odyssey (I think – I’ve blocked out most of reading that in high school. I hated it – though it was probably as much the boring instruction as anything else). In this book, we get the story of how the demigod child of
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Loved this book – it’s the story of the crew of a ship that builds wormhole tunnels, who are suddenly forced to go the long way around for their next job. The crew are not all human, which is great, so you get treated to a whole variety of people with incredibly different backgrounds. And
A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers Read More »
Really interesting portrait of Antarctica – both the people there (past and present), and the science they’re finding. It’s from 2013, so a smidge dated at this point, but still lots of interesting things covered. You’ll find climate science, meteorology, astronomy, and biology – not to mention how living in such an isolated location impacts
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A good chunk of the rest of the world is suddenly underwater, but Dinetah (formerly the Navajo reservation) had the forsight to wall itself off, and they’ve managed to survive. The flood has also brought back magic. So we’ve got a fairly standard fare of kickass female protagonist with a past, and smart ass guy
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Princess Essie of Escarland and elf Prince Farrendel ended up married to prevent a war between their kingdoms. Essie was able to help thwart an assassination attempt on the elven royal family that the neighboring Troll kingdom had tried to pin back on Escarland. So she and Farrendel are off to Escarland to figure out
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Aralorn is the illegitimate daughter of a lord and a shapeshifter. Not wanting to be caught up in the court, she ends up being a mercenary. Wolf is her companion that she’s met along the way – a man that usually spends his time in the shape of a wolf, who has secrets that he’s
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