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 […]
Jolene – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
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
Thistlefoot – GennaRose Nethercott Read More »
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
The Wizard’s Butler – Nathan Lowell Read More »
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
Holy Sister – Mark Lawrence Read More »
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
Dance of a Burning Sea – E. J. Mellow Read More »
I am so loving this series. Which is making my resolution to wait until the paperback of the third book comes out very hard to stick to. If I didn’t have a ton of other stuff to read, I’m sure I would have run out and bought the hardcover already. El’s a senior now, and
The Last Graduate – Naomi Novik Read More »
Leave it to Le Guin to write a young adult book that’s a really moving story of slavery and freedom. This book is the story of Gavir, a slave in one of the households in the city of Etra, part of a confederation of cities that constantly seem to be at war with each other,
Powers – Ursula K. Le Guin Read More »
Interesting book. It’s set in a vaguely Eastern cultured world, where people use magic called madra. Lindon is born without any specific ability to shape madra, meaning he’s unsouled – more or less useless to his family. But he’s determined to make something of himself, and through sheer force of will sets out on what
Unsouled – Will Wight Read More »
This is a reread, which I don’t normally write up, but these two books (this is the follow up to The Curse of Chalion), are just so incredibly good, I want to make sure I mention them again. Ista is a minor character in The Curse of Chalion, the dowager royina, mother to the two
Paladin of Souls – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
Xian Li-Lin is a Daoist priestess in 19th century San Francisco. After the events of the first book of this series, Li-Lin has left her father’s temple after he disowned her, but she still tends to the dead. Which is why she’s brought the body of a young girl who was killed by a plant
The Girl with No Face – M. H. Boroson Read More »
