Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. Marius is a professional battlefield looter. He and his apprentice, Gerd, happen upon the aftermath of the battle that has killed the king of Scorby. Unable to pass up such a rich battlefield prize, they’re looting the body when the Dead come to claim the […]
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. It’s 1861, and as the Prince Consort is dying, Queen Victoria summons a lawyer named Patrick Fitzgerald to Windsor. Within hours, the Prince Consort is dead, Fitzgerald and his ward Georgiana are run off the road in their carriage, nearly killing Georgiana, and his chambers are ransacked. It
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. The Tenth Gift is one of those books that happens in parallel storylines – one in the present, where someone has found something that links to the storyline in the past. In the case of this book, Julia has just been dumped by her long-time lover (who happens
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. At the end of the Blood Ties books, for massively spoilery reasons, the vampire Henry Fitzroy had to relocate from Toronto to Vancouver. Needing someone he trusted to be his help during the day, he brought with him Tony Foster, the street kid that had helped Vickie and
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Read for the RIP VII Reading Challenge. I can only write about this book if I first go off on a couple of tangents: Tangent #1 – I’ve been avoiding this series because of the covers. They’ve got those typical urban fantasy covers with the female character in some sort of sexed-up pose, scantily clad.
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I’d picked this book out of the pile because it was one of the ones that had been sitting there the longest. In hindsight, I wish I’d saved it until winter. I say that because it’s filled with glorious descriptions of Tuscany in the summer, and the author is a gardener, so it’s written right
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Shockingly, it’ll be September on Saturday, which means it’s time for the Readers Imbibing Peril Part VII (7!!) challenge. Ok, it’s not being called a challenge anymore, but I feel weird typing that without the word challenge in there somewhere. I’m going to try for Peril the First, which is to read four books out
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Jack Carstares has been in exile, ever since the day that his younger brother cheated at cards, and Jack took the blame so Richard wouldn’t lose the girl he loved. Jack’s now come back to England, and taken up highway robbery. Richard has been trying to make up for his actions in the years since,
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This is the final book of the Dying Earth books, and is as beautifully written as the ones before it. Rhialto is a magician, and though he and his fellow magicians are not as great as those that came before them, they still manage some pretty impressive feats. The story is split into three distinct
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Candy Freak is a journey to find America’s small candy makers and some of their iconic candies. Most of these are candies that you’ve probably only heard of if you live in a specific region, and they’re sadly disappearing. I didn’t realized how bad the big three (Hershey’s, Mars and Nestle) are making it for
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