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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I’d never given much thought to Shakespeare in translation – I mean, the thing about his work is his amazing use of the English language. You find lists of words that he pioneered in his work that we’re still using today. Heck, we’ve basically moved on from that particular form of
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Here’s another technical re-read, from back in my high school days. It’s the story of Merlin, from childhood, to when he claims the baby Arthur from Uther Pendragon. In this series, Merlin is the son of the bard Taliesin and the Princess Charis of Atlantis, daughter of the Fisher King. He
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This is a great book- it’s a classic haunted house tale, with a wizard and a vampire thrown into the mix. Tony Foster is working as a PA with a Vancouver production company (filming a vampire tv show called Darkest Night that only a few on the crew know is a little more true to
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Here’s another technical reread, though I’m pretty sure my original read was back in high school. There’s also another book in the series, so I was having some weird déjà vu moments that ended up not panning out, because what I was remembering must happen in the next book. The books ends up
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Emereck and Flindaren are traveling with a caravan when they decide to take a shortcut, which brings them to a dangerous adventure. Emereck is a minstrel, and Flindaren is one of the younger sons of the Duke of Minathlan – the perfect combination to find the legendary Harp of Imach Thyssel – one of the
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