This is an interesting take on Sherlock Holmes – in this case, he’s an angel, which explains why he’s not the best at personal interactions with regular people. The angels bring some magic in the world, which is a nice extra touch – it’s not overdone, just there, and just enough to make the story […]
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This is the follow up to The Left-Handed Booksellers of London. Susan, Merlin and Vivien are all back. Susan’s well aware of her heritage as the daughter of one of the Ancient Sovereigns, but she’s trying to live as normal a life as possible. Unfortunately, while Vivien and some of the other right handed booksellers
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Lanie’s family has served as the right hands of the ruling family of Liriat since its founding, and have always had a relationship with Doedanna, the goddess of death. They were usually necromancers, but Lanie is the first necromancer born in a century – her parents were the chief assassin, and chief executioner. Where this
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So that was an experience. This book has been out long enough that it’s really hard to avoid reading about it online. I’ve tried my best to stay deep spoiler free, but I’d already heard about the change in perspective (to a second person voice), and I had a pretty good idea of why things
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This is the story of the first settlement of the Norse into the Scottish Orkney islands – told through the eyes of Eyvind, a Norse warrior, and Nessa, a Pictish princess. I love Marillier – her initial Sevenwaters trilogy has made me cry in each book. But I had a hard time with this book.
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I hadn’t read the Dragonkin books when I started this series, which was fine initially. But now that those characters have been dragged into this series, you probably need to have read those to fully get any of the future books. (I’ve now read the first three of the Dragonkin books, so I at least
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This is a nice, cozy story. Fin is the new cook at the royal palace – he’s incredibly prickly and chases pretty much everyone out of the kitchen on day one. As we follow along the story, we find out it’s because he’s a house witch – and regular witches consider him defective. So, he’s
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It’s funny – I recently happened upon a post on Reddit talking about the Rivers of London books, and asking if it was worth continuing, because they were finding Peter to be so immature in the early books. Which reminded me that I still needed to finish the last book (so far) in the series.
Amongst Our Weapons – Ben Aaronovitch Read More »
This is the (currently) last of the Sherlock books in the Elemental Masters series. Sherlock is officially still dead, as is Mary Watson, but John Watson and Sarah and Nan are trying to carry on some of Sherlock’s investigations where they can. This story ends up being a mash up of “Hansel and Gretel” and
The Case of the Spellbound Child – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
We pick up Zinnia’s story after A Spindle Splintered. She’s gotten a bit of a remission from her terminal diagnosis, and is using her newly opened up time to rescue other Sleeping Beautys from their fates across the fairy tale multiverse. And then one day, she finds herself in a Snow White story instead. I
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