In this final book of the Finishing School series, Sophronia and her friends end up having to save England from the Picklemen, and it’s a pretty full on steampunk flavored, dirigible destroying experience. These books are just a ton of fun, and have just the right amount of romance included. Just the kind of fluff […]
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Binti has been accepted to Oozma University, which will require her to leave Earth and her people –a people that do not normally travel out of their land. On the way, her ship is attacked by the Medusae, and Binti is the only one left alive. This is a novella (one of the bad things
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Kaylin is a Hawk, trying to keep the streets of the city of Elantra safe. After fleeing a terrible childhood in the fief of Nightshade, she’s drawn back there, when children are murdered. The twist is that they have been marked the same way that she was, when many other children died, and no one
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It took me a little while to get into this book, because it’s not a happy story (and I’m having a hard time dealing with not happy lately), but Jemisin’s never steered me wrong, so I kept at it, and I’m glad I did. There are three interweaving stories in a far future Earth, where
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This book is in two parts – Evelyn’s story, and Brendan’s story. (I have the Kindle edition. I’d love to see how this works in the actual book edition.) The two meet in college in the Cornish village of Clews, and their story is a twist on Arthurian legend. It’s really interesting reading reviews of
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Hetta Valstar is the black sheep of the family – her father banished her from their home when she wanted to practice magic, and she’s now made a pretty good living for herself in the capital city, practicing illusion magic. But her father has passed away, and she has to go home. Her family rules
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In this book, the author compares the rise of civilization in the Old and New Worlds – looking at which factors drove them in different directions. It’s an interesting book, but also incredibly dense. It took me a while to get through it. If you’ve read up on ancient history, there’s probably nothing truly new
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Brendan Vetch journeys from his home in the mountains to the city – he’s been invited to be the new gardener at the wizard’s school there. It was a mysterious invitation, by a woman who wandered through town. When he gets there, he finds that he was invited by the wizard Od herself, the founder
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This book is a collection of reimagined fairy tales – some in verse, some in prose. Some of them are quite modern. I’m not the world’s biggest fan of verse, but really enjoyed these stories. I think my favorite story was “The Seven Shoes” – there’s a witch there, but it’s really just a tale
Snow White Learns Witchcraft – Theodora Goss Read More »
I’m not entirely sure what to think of this book. We start in colonial India, where Gemma is out with her mother, and witnesses her death. There’s very clearly something very sinister going on, but Gemma and her family go back to England, where officially, her mother died from cholera. Gemma is shipped off to
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