This is a great ending to the Confederation novels. Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr has finally been sent back to her unit on the front, when they’re attacked. Torin pretty much knows she’s going to die when she hears a bomb coming in on their position, but she instead wakes up in a prison […]
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I was very curious to see how this book was going to work – it’s a tacked on end to a former trilogy that actually ended with the death of Arthur. So bringing back another Arthur story was definitely a bold move. What this story does is go back to a few
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I’m often surprised how many de Lint books are out there that I still haven’t read. The man is nothing short of prolific. This is a book of short stories, with familiar characters, and characters that are just passing through or around Newford. My favorite story in this book is “Seven Wild Sisters”
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The main thing I’m taking away from this trio of books (see here for the other) is that Edward Gorey thought a lot about the alphabet. There are so many variations of alphabet lists in these books. He’s also morbid. Which I already knew, but got extra confirmation reading these. I
Amphigorey Too and Amiphigorey Again – Edward Gorey Read More »
This is the fourth of the Mercy Thompson books, and definitely has an air of a between stories story, though far better done than what I’ve been reading in the later Sookie Stackhouse books. There were some rather serious events in the last book that Mercy is dealing with, including having killed one of the
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This book is a prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I only picked it up because I didn’t have to pay for anything. I’ll admit to having no expectations, but it was actually not too bad. It’s a couple years before the action of Pride and Prejudice, and the Bennett girls have
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I am liking this series so much more than the Shiver books, which was my original intro to this author. In fact, I’d say that Shiver is probably not like the rest of her work, because I’ve liked everything else I’ve read of hers so much more than that book would have lead me
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This book is a collection of shorter works that Gorey had done over the years – if you like his work (which is slightly macabre, and definitely all kinds of wrong), it’s worth a read. There are a couple different alphabet stories that are completely not meant for children, but are so much fun to
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This Brother Cadfael book kicks off with a young juggler, hired to perform at the wedding of the local goldsmith’s son, being chased into the Abbey in front of a mob accusing him of having killed the goldsmith. Lilliwin’s a slight young man, who does not look like a murder, so Brother Cadfael is
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In contrast to my last vampire included read, book eleven in the Sookie Stackhouse series is getting a little long in the tooth. I literally could care less about her relationship with Eric, Sam’s dating life leaves much to be desired, there better be a massive payoff to whatever she’s leading up to involving
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