Claudio Bianchi lives alone on his family’s farm in Calabria. At the beginning of the story, he can at best be described as curmudgeonly, until the day that a unicorn appears on the farm. He quickly realizes that she has chosen his farm to have her baby, and while waiting for this event, things begin […]
In Calabria – Peter S. Beagle Read More »
Continuing with this year’s comfort reading theme, I’m back at the beginning of the Elemental Masters series. This book is based on Snow White, and follows Maya Witherspoon. Her father was an English doctor in India, and her mother was a sorceress who gave up everything to marry her father. When both her parents die
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Continuing with the Elemental Masters series, we’re now back in England (after having been in Germany for the last couple volumes), and are looping Sherlock Holmes into this magical version of our world. Or really, the Watsons, who are Elemental Mages, and take the cases that Holmes won’t take, since he’s skeptical that magic actually
A Study in Sable – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
Kate Daniels is finding life being self-employed a little hard. The Knights of Merciful Aid have been bad-mouthing her, so she’s not getting any work. She’s being funded by the Pack, but wants to make it on her own two feet, not get money just because she’s the Beast Lord’s mate. So, when the local
Magic Slays – Ilona Andrews Read More »
In book three of the Raven Cycle, Blue Sargent and the Algionby boys are growing closer to finding Glendower, because by this point in the story, they’ve acquired powers. This book is about them accepting those powers – in many ways, it’s about growing up. Adam must accept that he’s a magician, but also that
Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater Read More »
This book has a really interesting set up – a Regency England in a world with magic, where England has been losing their ability to work magic. The Sorcerer Royal, Sir Stephen, realized that there are plenty of other powerful magicians in the world, including Zacharias, a young slave that he bought because he sensed
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Faris is the Duchess of Galazon, but until she reaches her majority, her uncle’s in charge, and he’s shipped her off to Greenlaw College. Faris wants nothing to do with this choice, but it turns out, her mother has specified Greenlaw in her will, because Greenlaw teaches magic. This story isn’t all about the college
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Ghosts are starting to interact with passengers on the Tube, and Peter Grant (and the Folly) are called in on the case. One complaint about this story – it’s too short. I absolutely want more of the main story line of this series, and this was not the novella to do that. That said, you
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This is the second book of the second Mistborn trilogy, set three hundred years after the last trilogy. The technology of the world has come a long way, but this book especially references back to what happened in the previous trilogy (the first book of this series was lacking that to some degree). I really
Shadows of Self – Brandon Sanderson Read More »
So I went on a bit of binge over the past weekend, into the past few weeknights. (It was hot and humid, and doing things outside just didn’t seem fun.) So I read the first two books in a day each, and the last one over a couple nights. BF is suspicious I don’t actually
Magic Burns, Magic Strikes, Magic Bleeds – Ilona Andrews Read More »