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Magic Burns, Magic Strikes, Magic Bleeds – Ilona Andrews

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

So I went on a bit of binge over the past weekend, into the past few weeknights. (It was hot and humid, and doing things outside just didn’t seem fun.) So I read the first two books in a day each, and the last one over a couple nights. BF is suspicious I don’t actually […]

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P. S. from Paris – Marc Levy

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Continuing this year’s apparent comfort reading theme, when I saw this book come up on the Prime Firsts list, I grabbed it. It was as pure escapist fun as the description implied. Mia is a famous British actress who’s just completed a film with her husband. Just in time for the publicity junket, she finds

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The Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Continuing my rereading theme, here’s the prequel to The Blue Sword. Aerin is the only child of the king, by his second wife, who some considered to be a witch, so there are whispers about her. She won’t inherit the throne – that goes to her cousin Tor. Consequently, she’s not really sure what to

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Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

So post-apocalyptic fiction is really hot right now. I have quite a bit of it in my to read pile. And I’m really not in the mood for it. Consequently, I’ve been rereading a bunch of books this year in a happier vein. Like fairy tales. This is the lead up to say that I

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The Scarlet Thread – D. S. Murphy

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

I get a couple different book newsletters for cheap or free ebook deals. I’ve learned to be really leery of the free ones. So I was really pleasantly surprised by this book. It’s definitely more in the YA realm, so has a fair amount of teenage angst, but not anymore than any typical book in

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Cloaked in Red – Vivian Vande Velde

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

I found this book while looking at what was available under Amazon Prime Reading. It would translate to a small volume in paper – not sure I would have paid for something that size. The author starts out with all the parts of the “Little Red Riding Hood” fairy tale that make no sense –

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Elementary – ed. Mercedes Lackey

At Home, Reading / Megan

This is the second short story book where Lackey has opened up her Elemental Magic world to other authors. She’s got a story in here as well, but it’s a bit of a disappointment, because it’s clearly the short story she expanded into Blood Red, so nothing new here. There’s an interesting mix of stories,

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Miles Errant – Lois McMaster Bujold

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This omnibus consists of the short story “The Borders of Infinity”, and the books Brothers in Arms (which I’d previously read) and Mirror Dance. All the stories deal with Miles Vorkosigan’s alter ego Admiral Miles Naismith, commander of the Dendarii mercenaries. More importantly, the two books deal with his clone brother, Mark. In Brothers in

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Defying Mars – Cidney Swanson

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is technically the second book in this series, but I’m starting to get the feeling the author pulled apart one (maybe two – the series is young) books to make more parts. In the last book, Jess and her brother were among the crew of a Mars ship sent to Earth to get the

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Clean Sweep – Ilona Andrews

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Well here’s an interesting idea – vampires and werewolves as aliens, and only some people on Earth know that they exist. Earth is neutral, so there are a number of Inns here, and their Innkeepers have incredible powers as long as they’re in the Inn. Dina has been given an Inn that was abandoned, so

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