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
Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
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
Arthur – Stephen R. Lawhead Read More »
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.
The Book of Life – Deborah Harkness Read More »
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
Summers at Castle Auburn – Sharon Shinn Read More »
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
Song for the Basilisk – Patricia A. McKillip Read More »
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
Once Upon a Time X – 3/21/16 to 6/21/16 Read More »
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
Sounds and Sweet Airs – Anna Beer Read More »
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
Moon Over Soho – Ben Aaronovitch Read More »
