Read for Once Upon a Time X. Corie is the illegitimate daughter of a lord, but for most of her life has lived for each summer with that family. She adores her older sister Elisandra, who is engaged to marry Prince Bryan, who will one day be King. The story starts with Corie […]
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Read for the Once Upon a Time X Reading Challenge. (It’s become somewhat of a tradition to read a McKillip book for this challenge.) The boy called Rook was brought to the bards at Luly as a child, not remembering his own name, only that he had been born anew in the fire that
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We’re back with London police constable Peter Grant – the junior partner (really, the junior section of the department, since there’s only two of them) in the supernatural division of the Metropolitan police. We open to jazz musicians seemingly dying of natural causes after gigs – not enough for most people to notice, but Peter
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This is a collection of short stories, including one from the Old Kingdom. They claim it’s a novella on the front cover, but it’s definitely shorter than the Lirael story that was included in his other short story collection. Still, it’s worth getting – “To Hold the Bridge” is an interesting
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This is a delightful, incredibly quirky book. September is invited to Fairyland by the Green Wind and his Leopard, and longing for adventure, accepts the offer. The Wind can’t actually enter Fairyland, as the Marquess, the new ruler has barred him. So it’s up to September to find her own way.
Daystar had never been into the Enchanted Forest himself before, until the day a wizard showed up at the cottage he shares with his mother, and his mother unexpectedly destroys the wizard. Even more strangely, she heads into the Forest, comes back with a sword, hands that to Daystar, and tells him he
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Here’s another book in Lackey’s Elemental Magic books, which are all based on fairy tales, but set in the turn of last century. This one is based on “The Steadfast Tin Soldier”. Katie Langford is a circus acrobat and dancer. When her parents perished in a terrible fire, in the haze
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In the last book of this trilogy (A Discovery of Witches), Diana Bishop had discovered that her witches’ powers had been locked up by her parents to keep her safe. Now that she’s married her one true vampire love (Matthew Clairmont), and all the other creatures of the world are after them for going
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Here’s another technical re-read, from back in my high school days. It’s the story of Merlin, from childhood, to when he claims the baby Arthur from Uther Pendragon. In this series, Merlin is the son of the bard Taliesin and the Princess Charis of Atlantis, daughter of the Fisher King. He
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This is a great book- it’s a classic haunted house tale, with a wizard and a vampire thrown into the mix. Tony Foster is working as a PA with a Vancouver production company (filming a vampire tv show called Darkest Night that only a few on the crew know is a little more true to
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