This novella is a bit of a sea change from the earlier Penric stories. Pen’s patron, the Princess Arch-Divine, has died, and he’s a bit adrift. He’s ended up in the service of the Duke of Adria, who sends him on a covert mission to meet with a general in a nearby land who’s contacted […]
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This is the second book in the Thursday Next series. Thursday is a cop in the Special Operations portion of the police in an alternate England. In the last book, she ends up married after various adventures that include going into the novel Jane Eyre, and changing the ending. Not too far into the book,
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Three girls wake up in a field with no memories, but knowing that they need to flee. They clearly have some magic ability, and they also know they’re FireSouls, magic makers that share the soul of a dragon. Problem with that being that FireSouls are generally thrown into magical jail. It’s about ten years later,
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This book picks up immediately after the events of the novella “Alpha and Omega”. Charles Cornick came to Chicago to investigate Anna’s pack, finding them broken by the actions of the pack Alpha. She also discovers she’s an Omega wolf – outside of the pack structure, and highly valued because she can help keep the
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I managed to find this in the library’s ebook selection after I started Cry Wolf, and quickly realized there was a bit of the story missing. (Turns out to be “Alpha and Omega” in this book). I really enjoyed the stories here – it’s a wide range of time frames, including all the way back
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With the help of the Reckoners, David has managed to bring down the Epic Steelheart, and free the city if Newcago. But pretty soon, more Epics are on the way to try and bring down the Steelslayer. It’s quickly clear that they’re being sent by Regalia, who rules the city of Babylon Reborn, aka New
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This is a lovely graphic novel with translations of fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth not long after the Brothers Grimm had been doing their work there. His collection is not as well known because he did not publish it in his lifetime. They’re definitely familiar, but with little twists to the story
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Jess Brightwell was given a position in the Library’s High Garda – he knows it’s so that the head of the Library can keep an eye on him, after they kidnapped and killed his best friend, Thomas, for his heretical ideas. The rest of their friends in their initial training class have moved on to
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Back to Temeraire – Laurence and Temeraire are still in Australia when they get a surprise visitor announcing that Laurence’s commission has been restored. Of course there’s a catch – Laurence will have to go to South America, where it would seem that Napoleon is trying to meddle with the Incan Empire. I will first
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It’s twelve books into the Elemental Magic series, which started with fairy tale retellings, and eventually branched into Sherlock Holmes, and has now brought in Cthulu. If you’re at all familiar with Lovecraft, you have a pretty good idea of what takes place in this book, but it’s so much fun to see how Lackey
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