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 […]
Lost in the Moment and Found – Seanan McGuire Read More »
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
Memory – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
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
Point of Honour – Madeleine E. Robins Read More »
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
Penric and the Bandit – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
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,
The Bennet Women – Eden Appiah-Kube Read More »
Interesting magical world – it’s based on Jewish magical mythology, where magic was brought in based on heritage (shocker – there are a lot more people of Jewish decent than you’d think), but it’s an all or nothing thing. Ashira Cohen always thought she as mundane, even having a Nefesh father. She’s made a life
Blood and Ash – Deborah Wilde Read More »
These stories are about a man ‘who has many names but only a single nature’ and his travels through a mythical land just outside of regular time. He’s been tasked with getting rid of chaos. I think this is most easily compared to the Jack Vance’s Dying Earth stories. There’s a similar vibe to them,
The Compleat Traveller in Black – John Brunner Read More »
Aelis has been drafted straight out of training to be the warden of Lone Pine, a town out on the frontier. It’s a far cry from the city where she grew up, and earning the trust of the people of Lone Pine proves harder than she could have imagined. I liked this book, but it
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