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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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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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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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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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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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
A Civil Campaign and Winterfair Gifts – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
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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Cleric Chih and their bird Amazing Brilliant are back, traveling to collect stories. In this tale, they’ve ventured into the Riverlands, where they encounter two young women travelling, and decide to join forces. They’re ambushed, which is when Chih discovers that one of the young women is a martial arts master. It’s at this point
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I loved this story. It’s back in the jazz age, so we get a young Thomas Nightingale, which was a lot of fun. But the real hero of this story is the narrator – Augustus Berrycloth-Young. He’s a graduate of the same school as Nightingale, but was only ever going to be a middling magician.
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This is a nice interlude kind of story in the greater universe of Mercy stories. Mercy’s half brother shows up at her house an absolute mess – he can’t speak, and barely seems to know where he is. After some investigation, they find out it’s due to some very particular not actually Fae magic. This
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