This is fun book. Edith is a cleryman’s daughter in vaguely Victorian England. They’ve never known much about his childhood – he was sent off to boarding school very young, and never went home. So it’s a great suprise when a letter reaches them that his brother and his nephew have died, leaving him the […]
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Elspeth is infected with magic, in a kingdom where that will get you killed. Sent off to live with her aunt and uncle, she’s kept away from court, but is drawn back in for the Equinox celebrations. The only official magic allowed are Providence Cards, created by the Shepherd King, who sought to protect the
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This is a bit of a fish out of water tale, of the year the author spend teaching in Iceland, just after their banking crash in the late 00’s. The author is from England, so it was a little funny to see some of the things she found alien about life there that I probably
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This one hits a little differently than the prior Wayward Children books. Antsy has lot a lost in her life, starting with the loss of her father when she was five. Her mother meets someone new, and that causes another kind of loss. She knows that he is no good, but no one
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This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the sleeper is a prince in need of rescue, and the rescuer is a noblewoman turned treasure hunter who also happens to be under a curse. She’s fallen in with another princess turned exile (and expert axe welder) who’s totally falling in love with a Red Riding
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What I really love about this author and this series is the range of stories she manages to work into this world. You never really know what you’re going to get in each book. This is a very quiet book – it starts with Miles making an incredibly stupid (and uncharacteristic) mistake – he
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What an interesting book. It’s told from two viewpoints – the princess on a world long ago colonized by Earth, and the last of the anthropologists sent by a later version of Earth explorers to study their far-flung, long lost colonies. You get a perfect collision of magic and science, and a really good examination
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I really liked the premise of this book – set in Regency times (in a slightly alternate world where the Prince of Wales is not yet regent, and married differently than in our own timeline), Sarah Tolerance is a fallen woman. She was ruined by her family’s fencing master, and had a lovely life with
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I aspire to have as a good of retirement output as Bujold does. I snap these novellas up as soon as I see them – they’re just such a great read. This story isn’t really revolutionary – Pen’s journeying into the countryside to find a forgotten shrine to his god, the Bastard. In a small
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I’ve been sitting on this one for a while – I think it was a Kindle First Reads book, back when we actually had Prime. It’s a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, set in the Bennet women’s house at Longbourn College, which reminds me quite a bit of my New England liberal arts college experience,
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