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Dead and Gone – Charlaine Harris

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I think the Sookie books are getting a little long in the tooth.   (Though not as bad as the tv show, which I stopped watching a couple of seasons ago.)    In this book, Sookie’s great-grandfather, the fairy prince, comes to warn her that there’s war in the fairy realms, between his faction, which likes humans, […]

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One Corpse Too Many – Ellis Peters

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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. Having recently read the two Gareth and Gwen books, which were pretty much modern procedurals put into a medieval Welsh setting, reading this Brother Cadfael book was an interesting contrast, and a good reminder of what a great writer Ellis Peters is. This book is set within the

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Blood Bound – Patricia Briggs

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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. Mercy Thompson owes a few people some favors.    Since she can turn into a coyote whenever she likes, her vampire friend Stefan asks her to go along when he needs to deliver a message to another one of his kind.    Unfortunately, it turns out that this vampire has

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman

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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. A middle aged man has returned to the town he grew up in for a funeral.    Afterwards, he drives around aimlessly, and realizes that he is drawn to the farm at the end of the lane from where he grew up.     When he was young, he remembered that

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The Uninvited Guest – Sarah Woodbury

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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. I needed one more book to get me through my flight home from Paris, so I decided to try another one of the Gareth and Gwen mysteries.    This time, it’s King Owain that’s getting married, and his wedding comes to a halt when one of the bridesmaids is

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The Mislaid Magician – Patricia A. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer

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This is the last book of the Kate and Cecy Regency themed books that happen to involve magic.    (It’s ten years later, so this one actually takes a bit of a steam punk turn.) Cecy, and her husband James, have been asked by the Prime Minister to investigate the disappearance of a German magician who

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The Woodcutter – Kate Danley

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The Woodcutter has no other name – his ancestors were appointed long ago to keep the Wood on the border of the Fae lands and Mortal lands free from the influence of dark magic.   One terrible day, he finds a girl in a red hood already dead, and a princess with skin as white as

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Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall – Winston Graham

At Home, Reading / Megan

I added this book to my Kindle for my trip because I’ve had it on my to read list for a while, and since I was actually going to Cornwall, it seemed like the perfect time to read it.    And it was. Ross Poldark has been off in America, fighting in the Revolutionary War (which

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The Good Knight – Sarah Woodbury

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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. Gwen’s father is a bard, and has been summoned back to the court of King Owain Gwynedd to perform at the wedding of the king’s daughter to one of the neighboring kings.    On the journey there, they find the wedding party of King Anarawd slain on the road,

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Invitation to Die – Helen Smith

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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. In picking books for my vacation reading, since I knew I was going to try and concentrate on RIP theme related books, I did try to make sure I picked a few lighter books.    This one seemed ideal – it’s set in London (one of the locations I

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