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Hounded – Kevin Hearne

At Home, Reading / Megan

Here’s another book that was refreshingly different. This is an urban fantasy with a male lead. I really enjoyed its take on the various pantheons of the world. Atticus is Irish, so his pantheon is represented, but every pantheon is actually there to some degree. Atticus is the last Druid. Due to a deal with […]

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Unnatural Magic – C. M. Waggoner

At Home, Reading / Megan

I really enjoyed this book – it’s about people outside of the regular magical structure of this particular world being able to find a place where they can wield power. Onna is obviously magically talented, and is educated in it as much as her small town can manage. When she applies to the country’s magical

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Symphony for a Deadly Throne – E. J. Mellow

At Home, Reading / Megan

I preordered this book – I’d enjoyed the first two books in the series enough that I knew I wanted to read this sooner rather than later. I did enjoy it, but, it’s my least favorite of the three. This is the eldest sister – Arabessa’s – story. They are the daughters of the Thief

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Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians – Brandon Sanderson

At Home, Reading / Megan

This is a fun book – it’s a middle reader, so goes by pretty fast. The conceit is that Brandon Sanderson is the pen name a young man named Alcatraz, and is using this book to get his story out to those of us in the lands the Librarians are in charge of. They’re in

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Soul Taken – Patricia Briggs

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It really sucks getting on the bad side of any of the big bads of this world. This particular book features some particularly nasty vampire infighting, with some rather serious implications for everyone else in the area (of course). This does seem like a bit of a placeholder story – nothing is particularly new, just

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Jolene – Mercedes Lackey

At Home, Reading / Megan

I enjoyed this book a lot, partially for reasons outside of the actual story. First – I love that to move the Elemental Masters series into America, the author decided to use national treasure Dolly Parton as inspiration, and that she dedicated the book to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The second is that I work with

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Thistlefoot – GennaRose Nethercott

At Home, Reading / Megan

Isaac and Bellatine Yaga haven’t seen each other in years, after Isaac left the family to go off on his own.     They’re called together when they receive an inheritance – one they have to go pick up at a warehouse.   It’s a house with chicken legs, and if you’ve noticed the last name, you know

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The Wizard’s Butler – Nathan Lowell

At Home, Reading / Megan

This is a nice, cozy book about a young man who gets hired to be the butler for a man who turns out to be a wizard. There are two interweaving subplots about a cursed amulet, and a scheming niece who’s trying to get the wizard sent to a retirement home so she can turn

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Holy Sister – Mark Lawrence

At Home, Reading / Megan

I try not to read too much about books ahead of time, because I really hate being swayed by other people’s opinions. I accidently found out that this is many people’s least favorite book in this trilogy, so I was definitely a little nervous going into it. I can definitely see where people would have

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Dance of a Burning Sea – E. J. Mellow

At Home, Reading / Megan

I enjoyed this book – it’s the second in a series following the lives of three sisters. They’re both the daughter of a baron in the capital city, but also the Mousai, enforcers for the Thief King, who also happens to be their father. This is Niya’s story, and we get a taste of it

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