I am so conflicted about this book. To the point of where if I had not already read the two books that came before it, I don’t think I would have finished it. And I’m really not sure if I’m going to pass it on to the two people that I had loaned […]
The Fall of the Kings – Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman Read More »
I read the precursor to this book – A Thousand Days in Venice – quite a while ago. In that book, the author had thrown her life in the US over to go to Italy and marry a man she didn’t know very well. The first book is the story of her learning
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Ranira is a bond servant, more or less owned by an innkeeper after her parents were killed for being witches. She knows they were innocent, but that didn’t stop them from dying. When some foreigners make arrangements to stay in the city, even though the biggest religious festival of the year
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Blue’s the only member of a clairvoyant family that can’t see the future- what she does do is help others see more clearly. The only thing her mother will share about her future is that if she kisses her one true love, he will die. So she’s decided she won’t kiss any boys
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Here’s another “dashing Georgian gentleman has a young girl trying to escape her not so nice relatives pretty much fall in his lap (figuratively, not literally), where he must then aid her in her adventures” Georgette Heyer story. In this case, it’s Sir Richard Wyndham, second in society only to Beau Brummell, who has just
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Miranda is a very typical teenager, in a very typical town in Pennsylvania, totally annoyed by the extra assignments at school that week, due to a projected asteroid hit on the moon. Everyone is absolutely moon crazy, and the whole world makes the asteroid viewing a regular party. Except, the asteroid is
Life as We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer Read More »
This is the final book of the Inheritance Trilogy, and I wasn’t sure what to expect of it, going in. It seemed like the three main gods – Nahadoth, Itempas and Enefa/Yeine – were well taken care of. And actually, this is the story of Sieh, oldest of the godlings, the children of the original
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In Graceling, we met Bitterblue, daughter of King Leck of Monsea. As we meet Bitterblue, she’s just escaped the palace with her mother, because Leck’s Grace is to overshadow the minds of others, and Queen Ashen had one of her rare lucid moments, and was able to get away. She died
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The Brother Cadfael books are slim volumes – but this one uses that shorter format to perfection – it takes place in five days – the day before, the three days of, and the day after – St. Peter’s Fair. The fair is the biggest festival of the monastery, and King Stephen himself had granted
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This book is based on the societies and mythologies of Ancient Egypt and Nubia (at least what we’ve been able to figure out about them), as well the theories of common dreams of the early psychoanalysts like Freud and Jung. If that sounds heavy, it’s not – it’s a really different story than
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