I don’t know what it is about the books that are set around when Heralds are being trained, but I seem to like them best. I’ve been enjoying the heck out of this series, and I’m really glad there are two more series that feature these same characters, because Lackey’s set up a good bunch […]
Bastion – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
You wouldn’t think that the concept of night could be that different over time – most of us do sleep through it, after all. But this book explores how things were indeed different in the days before modern lighting (concentrating on the West). Not only was it considered a separate “season”, but there are many
At Day’s Close – A. Roger Ekirch Read More »
This is theoretically a book about medieval gardens, and while it does talk about a few specific gardens, and has some interesting plant lists, it’s really more of a historical wrap up of the kinds of gardens that would have existed in that time, with a somewhat modern garden plan to go with each idea.
In a Unicorn’s Garden – Judyth McLeod Read More »
In this book’s world, Shakespeare was a historian, and a short time later, the English Civil War rages, but with more technology than we had in our world. Prince Rupert of the Rhine, fighting for his uncle, Charles I, is captured. His captor’s niece, Jennifer, helps him escape, and Oberon and Titania chose the two
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This the final book of The Raven Cycle. Blue, Gansey, Ronan, Adam, and Noah, are absolutely in the thick of searching for Owain Glendower. It’s now critically important, as a demon is unraveling the magical forest around the ley line where Glendower is buried. A lot happens in the book – and I’m a little
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This is the fourth book in the Collegium series. Mags and his friends are really settling into life at the Collegium. Healer Bear has been able to do an operation that’s given their friend Amily the ability to walk again, and it’s absolutely changed her life, as well as deepening her relationship with Mags. Mags
Redoubt – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
This was just a classic 90’s YA vampire story. Cynda’s off to remote Maine to live with her father, step-mother and little half-brother, now that her mother is moving to Italy. They run an inn by the sea – an inn supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young woman who died there years ago.
Look for Me by Moonlight – Mary Downing Hahn Read More »
Adam’s ex-wife is back – she’s gotten herself into trouble with a man who’s now stalking her, and is apparently willing to kill the people around her. Adam takes her in because she is the mother of his daughter, and since he is an alpha werewolf, it is pretty much his job to protect people.
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Gray Marshall is a student at Merlin College, the foremost of the Oxford colleges in this alternate England where the Tudors still reign in the 1800s and there’s magic aplenty. He’s stuck under the tutelage of Professor Apius Callender, and the two do not particularly get along. When two of Callender’s favorites rope him into
The Midnight Queen – Sylvia Izzo Hunter Read More »
I picked this up for myself as a souvenir from the Bodleian Library. I don’t normally buy books in England (it’s one thing where the prices are usually far better in the US), but this was unique, and actually published by the Bodleian Library press, so I jumped on it. It’s a cool little book,
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