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River Secrets – Shannon Hale

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Razo is pretty ordinary –he’s not particularly tall, or a particularly good soldier.    So he’s really not sure why he’s been asked to go along on an important diplomatic mission to Tira, the country that Bayern just defeated in a terrible war. But Razo’s friend Enna (the fire mage that defeated the Tirans, though […]

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Curtsies and Conspiracies – Gail Carriger

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I adore these books – the story of Sophronia Temminnick, who is more or less the charity case at Miss Geraldine’s Finishing School, which is really a school specializing in training young ladies in espionage.   On a dirigible.   Have I mentioned it’s twinned with a boy’s school for evil geniuses? Book two involves

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Stars of Darkover – ed. Deborah J. Ross and Elisabeth Waters

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Is it bad that my overwhelming thought about this anthology is that I’m glad that there was no one story that was just so amateurish it completely threw me out of the world of the book?    Most of the older anthologies had at least one of those stories, and I don’t know if the

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Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey

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This book is in Lackey’s Elemental Magic series, where fairy tales are told against the Edwardian era, with elemental magic (Air, Water, Earth and Fire) thrown into the mix. This book is Cinderella, but set in the time of World War I.    Eleanor Robinson has been chained to the hearth of her home by

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Arthur – Stephen R. Lawhead

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This in the final book I had read in the Pendragon Cycle, back in the day (aka, high school).    It was also formerly the last book in the cycle – and it’s very much an end book, so it would appear that the two books that come after it take place in time frames

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The Book of Life – Deborah Harkness

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I get the feeling the author really wanted to stick to a trilogy with this series, but man did she pack a lot into this last book. In the first book, Diana Bishop, witch, and Matthew Clairmont, vampire, meet and fall in love.    It’s forbidden.    You get a little taste of why.  

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Summers at Castle Auburn – Sharon Shinn

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Read for Once Upon a Time X. Corie is the illegitimate daughter of a lord, but for most of her life has lived for each summer with that family.     She adores her older sister Elisandra, who is engaged to marry Prince Bryan, who will one day be King. The story starts with Corie

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Song for the Basilisk – Patricia A. McKillip

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Read for the Once Upon a Time X Reading Challenge.    (It’s become somewhat of a tradition to read a McKillip book for this challenge.) The boy called Rook was brought to the bards at Luly as a child, not remembering his own name, only that he had been born anew in the fire that

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Once Upon a Time Challenge X 2016

Once Upon a Time X – 3/21/16 to 6/21/16

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I’m posting this a little late (so much to do last weekend), but it’s one of my favorite reading times of year again – my excuse to concentrate on all things magical in my TBR pile.   Per usual, I’m doing Challenge the First, which is at least five books in the challenge categories of

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Sounds and Sweet Airs – Anna Beer

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Librarything Early Reviewers book This book tells the stories of eight women composers, all the way back to the Renaissance Medici court.    I had previously only heard of two of them, which is one of the points of the book, and is also sad. I minored in music in college (something I am using

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