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The Hanging Tree – Ben Aaronovitch

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

I am so annoyed that I have to wait for the next book in this series. The last book, Foxglove Summer, was a bit of an interlude from the main story – who is the Faceless Man, and why is he fighting against the Folly? Well, interlude’s over, and Peter Grant’s very much back in […]

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The Magician’s Ward – Patricia C. Wrede

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

So I managed to read two books set in Regency England at once, pretty much by accident. This is the sequel to Mairelon the Magician, where a street urchin named Kim helps the aforementioned magician, who turns out to be a nobleman. At the end of the first book, he asks if she’d like to be

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Sylvester: or the Wicked Uncle – Georgette Heyer

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, has decided he must marry, and has presented his mother with a rather exacting list of things he needs in this wife. Naturally, this flies out the window when he meets Phoebe Marlow. Pheobe’s the daughter of a dear friend of his mother’s, but she’s not necessarily high society. And

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Goldmayne – Kate Stradling

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This book is an adaptation of two fairy tales called “Scurvyhead” and “Sir Goldenhair”, which both feature a young man named Petit Jean, who goes out into the world to make his fortune. Here, we have young Duncan, who realizes one day that he does not have to put up with the constant beatings from

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The Seventh Bride – T. Kingfisher

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Rhea is the miller’s daughter, and when a lord asks for her hand in marriage, she and her family don’t feel like they can say no. Lord Crevan demands that she visit his manor before the wedding, and there she finds out that he is a sorcerer, and that his other six wives all still

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Wilderness and the American Mind – Roderick Nash

2 Comments / At Home, Reading / Megan

Having done a concentration on the ecological side of biology in college (I like large scale communities. Microbiology bores me, though I do recognize its importance.), this was an interesting read. I think today, if you talked to a lot of urban dwellers (I’m firmly in that camp), and asked them their view on wilderness,

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Exile’s Song – Marion Zimmer Bradley

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This was the book that well and truly got me into the Darkover series, which is somewhat ironic, as she didn’t write all or most of it. (I’m not able to find the exact details around this – the trilogy it’s a part of was started around the time of her death, so was in

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Uprooted – Naomi Novik

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

In the Valley, every ten years, the wizard called the Dragon takes a young woman to help him fight the malevolent power of the Wood. Agnieszka has grown up knowing that it will be her friend Kasia that will be chosen – she’s beautiful and brave, pretty much everything that Nieszka is not. But when

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A Darker Shade of Magic – V. E. Schwab

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

In this book, there are four parallel worlds that all have a London, and only certain people can travel between those worlds. Grey London (our London) has no magic, Red London has magic in balance, White London’s magic is waning, so it’s become the source of power struggles, and Black London had magic take over

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The Immortal Heights – Sherry Thomas

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This was a satisfying conclusion to this trilogy – I’m so happy I was able to get my hands on it. Titus has been given an ultimatum to hand over Iola to the Bane, or his people will suffer. All he can do is try to strike at the Bane in his fortress in Atlantis,

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