You know, I really liked Possession, and several of Byatt’s fairy tale based short story books are wonderful. I can’t even really tell you what these stories were about – they were so high literary I was just plowing through so I could get to the end. I’m really not sure why I […]
Sugar and Other Stories- A. S. Byatt Read More »
Yeah, I had to skim the last few chapters of this book. It falls into Heyer’s older man marries younger woman seemingly for convenience, but it’s really a love match, except the two haven’t told each other, so shenanigans ensue trope. In this case, the book unfolds with Lord Cardross (Giles) firmly scolding
April Lady – Georgette Heyer Read More »
This is the story of David Lebovitz’s decision to start his life completely anew and move to Paris. There’s a lot to read here about culture shock, and some of the things you can expect if you wanted to move there. Actually, it’s probably good reading for anyone wanting to just travel
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Kayl was once a member of the Sisterhood of Stars, but on a mission for them, when things go disastrously wrong, and the Sisterhood tries to blame the sorcerers they were traveling with, Kayl leaves the Sisterhood behind, and marries one of those sorcerers. They end up running an inn in a quiet
Caught in Crystal – Patricia C. Wrede Read More »
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
River Secrets – Shannon Hale Read More »
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
Curtsies and Conspiracies – Gail Carriger Read More »
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
Stars of Darkover – ed. Deborah J. Ross and Elisabeth Waters Read More »
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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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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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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