In the first book of this trilogy, a youth was discovered, mute, and disfigured outside Isse Tower. Through the course of that book, the youth discovered she was a she, and went on adventures throughout the lands of Erith. Near the end, she met a Diannen warrior named Thorn, and fell madly in love with […]
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Keladry of Mindelan is finally a knight, and with war with Scanra on the horizon, she journeys north, expecting to see battle. Instead, she’s assigned as the commander of a refugee camp. Even she has to admit it’s a job she’s perfect for, but she feels like she’s not doing enough to help the battle
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I read young adult books with some frequency, and I’ve discovered many of my favorite authors in that category well after I left the demographic. Tamora Pierce is one that I’ve been reading since I was, in fact, a young adult. I think the thing I love most about her books is how well she
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The White Tyger is the third book in the series that began with A Princess of Roumania. Miranda Popescu had been sent at a very young age into an alternate reality where the isle of England hadn’t sunk into the ocean, the American colonies aren’t a back water frontier, and Romania is a small, relatively
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Yes, I am a sucker for being complete. Despite the fact that the main character kind of irritates me, I tracked down the last book in the Claidi Journals, Wolf Wing. Claidi and Argul can finally get married, but just as they do this, they receive an unexpected summons from Argul’s grandmother, Ironel. It turns
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Tamson House is in Ottawa – and takes up an entire city block, a ringed fortress around a central garden. It looks perfectly normal from the outside, but what most people don’t know is that it’s a nexus, a portal to the other worlds that touch our own. Its garden is an echo or the
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Cazaril has escaped from slavery, and for refuge, seeks the safest place he can think of, the noble household where he served as a page when he was a boy. But once there, to his surprise, he’s named the secretary-tutor to the sister of the heir to
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. This book combines three novellas of some sort of romantic fantasy. Rachel Lee’s ‘Drusilla’s Dream’ is a fun little little story that manages to combine a night shift data entry job with a good, old-fashioned quest by a princess to find the Behemoth that can save her
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Yeine’s mother had fled her life as the heir to the King of Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and gone north, where she had married Yeine’s father, ruler of the kingdom of Darr. Yeine had known little of her mother’s life, but when her mother mysteriously dies, Yeine is
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. Claire and Sydney are sisters – both members of the Waverley family, which means something in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Claire learned from their grandmother how to prepare dishes grown from the herbs in their garden, things like the honeysuckle wine they always bring to
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