Selene di Silva was once Artemis – like many members of her family, when belief waned, she found a new home far from Greece, and she now lives in New York City. The family is barely immortal now, though some gain smaller amounts of power from the pieces of themselves that mortals still worship. Selene […]
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I think this book can best be described as Pride and Prejudice in the borderlands between two alternate realities, where one has magic, and the other does not. Rose lives in the Edge – those that do live a bit of a hardscrabble existence, being neither from the Broken (our world, because magic is broken)
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Irene is a Librarian, but for a very specialized Library – one that exists outside of a multitude of alternate worlds, and has tasked itself with collecting books important to all the alternates. It’s a varied job – you may be able to purchase said book, or it may involve some degree of sleight of
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It’s several years after the first story in this series, where Penric accidentally gained a demon, and therefore became a sorcerer. He and Desdemona (the demon) have gotten to know each other better, and how to work together. He’s also been fully invested as a temple divine, serving in the Princess-Archdivine’s temple. This means that
Penric and the Shaman – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
This is the second books in the Queens of Renthia series. Delaina has come to the throne as the last survivor of all the heirs in Aratay. And while she is young and should have many years ahead of her to reign, she finds she has contracted the False Death. When she has spells, the
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When a troll attacks one of the local bridges, the police department calls the local werewolf pack, and with Adam, the alpha being away, Mercy (his mate) gets to go to see how they can help. The pack does manage to kill the troll, which Mercy is pretty sure was sent by the Fae Gray
Fire Touched – Patricia Briggs Read More »
Alina and Mal have tried to run from the Darkling, but he finds them, and brings them back to Ravka. But the Darkling isn’t aware that his allies are not all that they seem, and the privateer he has hired to bring them back to Ravka instead saves Alina and Mal for his own ends.
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We’re back to the world of Constable – now Detective – Peter Grant, London police officer and wizard in training. After a bit of an interlude in the last one and a half books, the Faceless Man and Lesley are back. And I don’t feel like I can talk about it much, because it’s all
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This is the last book in the trilogy about the Gale family. Charlie, the Wild Gale, is back in Calgary, watching her cousin Allie give a good go at getting the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son into the Gale family. And Jack, half-Gale, half-dragon prince, is growing up a little
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This the final book of the Beka Cooper books, and it’s a doozy. She and her partner are summoned with some haste to the Summer Palace, where they find that half of the servants and guards there have been slaughtered, and the young prince has been kidnapped. Beka promises the frantic queen that she will
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