We’re back with London police constable Peter Grant – the junior partner (really, the junior section of the department, since there’s only two of them) in the supernatural division of the Metropolitan police. We open to jazz musicians seemingly dying of natural causes after gigs – not enough for most people to notice, but Peter […]
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This is a collection of short stories, including one from the Old Kingdom. They claim it’s a novella on the front cover, but it’s definitely shorter than the Lirael story that was included in his other short story collection. Still, it’s worth getting – “To Hold the Bridge” is an interesting
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This is a delightful, incredibly quirky book. September is invited to Fairyland by the Green Wind and his Leopard, and longing for adventure, accepts the offer. The Wind can’t actually enter Fairyland, as the Marquess, the new ruler has barred him. So it’s up to September to find her own way.
Way back in 2011, I read the first and third books of the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy. This was mainly because I couldn’t get my hands on the middle book at the time, but also because I had read that the middle book was skip-able. I did keep it on my
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Daystar had never been into the Enchanted Forest himself before, until the day a wizard showed up at the cottage he shares with his mother, and his mother unexpectedly destroys the wizard. Even more strangely, she heads into the Forest, comes back with a sword, hands that to Daystar, and tells him he
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The civil war has caused people to flee from the city of Worcester. Word comes to the monks in Shrewsbury that two orphans of a noble family – a thirteen year old boy and his eighteen year old sister, a girl of remarkable beauty – along with their companion, a young nun, have been lost
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Here’s another book in Lackey’s Elemental Magic books, which are all based on fairy tales, but set in the turn of last century. This one is based on “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”. Katie Langford is a circus acrobat and dancer. When her parents perished in a terrible fire, in the haze
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Pretty early on in his career, Miles Vorkosigan happened into a mercenary army (long story), and created the character of Admiral Miles Naismith to head that army. They ended up becoming covert operatives of the Barrayaran intelligence service (so covert that most of the army doesn’t know who their true employers are), but
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In Moonflash, Kyreol and her friend Terje went on a journey to see what was beyond the Riverworld where they had grown up, and found that their simple land was part of a larger world with more advanced technology that allows them to travel to the stars. Kyreol stays there with her mother,
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In the last book of this trilogy (A Discovery of Witches), Diana Bishop had discovered that her witches’ powers had been locked up by her parents to keep her safe. Now that she’s married her one true vampire love (Matthew Clairmont), and all the other creatures of the world are after them for going
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