Read for the Graphic Novel Reading Challenge. This collection takes place in a steampunk alternate world, somewhere in Europe, where unnamed disasters have changed the landscape so that most people are living in cities, and don’t often go out into the unprotected wastelands. A great family named the Heterodynes once ruled here, but they have […]
Girl Genius Volume 1 – Phil and Kaja Foglio Read More »
Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. Shori awakens in a cave, terribly injured, and knowing nothing of her past. Working through a haze of pain, she finds herself near a compound of buildings that was recently burned to the ground, and knows that she’s been there before. What Shori doesn’t remember is that she’s
Fledgling – Octavia Butler Read More »
Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. Kaye has lived a nomadic life for most of her sixteen years – following her mother’s rock band from city to city. An attack on her mother sends them home to her grandmother’s house in New Jersey, and against this surprisingly gritty (for a YA novel) backdrop, Kaye’s
Tithe – Holly Black Read More »
Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. Harry Dresden is a wizard, a fully practicing mage, the only one he knows of that actually advertises what he is. He takes the occasional odd job finding missing things, and also occasionally helps out the Chicago police. Storm Front starts out as a number of seemingly unrelated
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This is the sequel to The Sorceress and the Cygnet, where we first met the ruling family of Ro Holding. The Holder has three daughters, the youngest of whom, Nyx, is a sorceress, and through the course of the first book, also becomes the heir to the holding. In The Cygnet and the Firebird, Nyx
The Cygnet and the Firebird – Patricia A. McKillip Read More »
Read for the 2010 YA and RIP V Reading Challenges. I love Neil Gaiman. He’s probably the only person in the universe that can start a story off with a toddler managing to escape the murder of the rest of his family by wandering into a graveyard, and make it into a more or less
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman Read More »
Katie Chandler is from a small town in Texas, but has moved to New York City to live with friends from college. She’s getting used to seeing things that seem a bit odd – like the semi-regular occurrence of random people wearing wings – because it is New York City after all. Until the day
Enchanted, Inc. – Shanna Swendson Read More »
Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. It turns out that vampires had come to the American colonies to escape the hostile population in the Old World, and rapidly realized that the slaves here were an ideal food-source. So, the Civil War was actually a battle fought between vampires and a group of mortals that
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Seth Grahame-Smith Read More »
This collection of science fiction and fantasy stories was built around the single premise that the main character must be a woman warrior. There’s an interesting mix of stories here, some about war, some about the battles of real life. A couple of the sci fi stories featured some flavor of war being fought remotely,
Women of War – ed. Tanya Huff and Alexander Potter Read More »
Hard to believe it’s that time of year again (really, it’s 90+ degrees outside. It’s really hard to believe it’s that time of year again), but it’s time for the RIP V Reading Challenge. I will be doing Peril the First, which is to read at least four books that could in some way be
RIP V Reading Challenge 9/1/10 – 10/31/10 Read More »