At first blush, this book is the story of the love triangle of Ormus Cama, Umeed ‘Rai’ Merchant and Vina Apsara. Rai is the story’s narrator, which starts at the very seminal moment of Vina’s death. From there, Rai takes us back to the childhood of the three in India. For various reasons, they all
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When Grace was young, she was attacked by wolves in her back yard. She thought she was dead, but somehow, ended up back in her house, safe. From then on, she would often catch a glimpse of one member of the pack watching her – she always knew it was the same wolf because of
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Well, October is past, which means the RIP VIII Reading Challenge is done. Considering I was gone for a good chunk of September, and had to rely on my iPad, I’m pretty happy with what I read: I was pretty mystery-centric this year – what I found for the Kindle started the trend, and I
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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