It’s been two years since the last book in the series, and we’re now following Queen Keeley’s next younger sister, Gemma. Gemma had left the family to become a war monk, and came back when their sister Beatrix was foretold to be the next queen. When it turns out that Beatrix is doing this with […]
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There’s a prophesy that when the Old King dies, his replacement will be a Queen. Keeley is the oldest of whole bunch of kids (thing number one I loved about this book – Keeley’s family – they’re a hoot), and has carried on her mother’s family tradition of blacksmithing. When she finds out it’s her
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This book is a retelling of ‘The Princess and the Pea’, but where it’s an ordinary girl who gets thrown in with the royal family, and eventually earns her place there by being herself. Alyssa is separated from her party in a storm and ends up at the Winter Palace. After completely charming the 11-year-old
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It’s interesting reading reviews of this book – people seem really divided about how badly humanity is portrayed in this book. Not that they started out looking too good in the first book of the series, but things get really grim in this second story. I’m really intrigued by this world building where humans really
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Irene is now the Librarian in Residence in her particular alternate world, with her apprentice Kai. When he’s kidnapped, she finally has to track down his family (of royal dragons), and ends up diving more deeply into the Fae’s worlds of chaos then she ever thought she’d be able to go. It was definitely interesting
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Henrietta Howel has power over fire, and has therefore always feared being found out by the royal sorcerers, because women should not weld magic. But she is finally discovered, and it turns out that they’ve been waiting for a girl that can weld fire. And so she is apparently the Chosen One. I enjoyed this
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I am very quickly becoming very impressed with this author – she’s written what could be an incredibly dark story with such gorgeous language that it transcends the darkness. Jack and Jill are twins being jammed into roles planned by parents who know nothing about raising children, when they find their way through a door
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It’s a measure of how much I trust this author that I read a story of hers about a plague. Because I can safely say that for the most part, too soon. (I have Connie Willis’ The Doomsday Book sitting in my TBR pile, and though I have heard nothing but good things about it,
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This is the last book in the series about Herald Mags’ children – in this case, his youngest son Tory is off for an adventure with his best friend, Prince Kyril, to help out Mags’ cousin who leads the Sleepgivers. Bey’s daughter has disappeared, and he needs help to find her. I enjoyed this story
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Alex Stern was a teenage junky falling further and further into a terrible life, until the day that she woke up from a binge, with several people, including her very best friend, dead around her, not remembering anything that happened. And in the hospital, a dean from Yale arrived to give her a spectacular opportunity.
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