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Snow White Learns Witchcraft – Theodora Goss

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This book is a collection of reimagined fairy tales – some in verse, some in prose. Some of them are quite modern. I’m not the world’s biggest fan of verse, but really enjoyed these stories. I think my favorite story was “The Seven Shoes” – there’s a witch there, but it’s really just a tale […]

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A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

I’m not entirely sure what to think of this book. We start in colonial India, where Gemma is out with her mother, and witnesses her death. There’s very clearly something very sinister going on, but Gemma and her family go back to England, where officially, her mother died from cholera. Gemma is shipped off to

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Mira’s Last Dance – Lois McMaster Bujold

2 Comments / At Home, Reading / Megan

This novella picks up immediately at the end of Penric’s Mission, where Penric had been sent on a covert mission to Cedonia, which had failed rather spectacularly. He’s now on the run with General Arisaydia, and his widowed sister Nikys. He’s decided to get them as far as Orbas, where Arisaydia believes he can find

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Bayou Moon – Ilona Andrews

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is one of the Edge books, and picks up the story of William after the events of On the Edge. William is a changeling (a wolf shape shifter in his case), and lost out on the girl in the last book. He’s stayed in the Edge, biding his time until his next job for

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Feast of the Mother – Miranda Honfleur and Nicolette Andrews

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Not a bad little book. Brygida is a witch, living outside a little village in a vaguely Medieval Eastern Europe, with her mothers. They hold themselves apart from the villagers, until one day, a handsome young man ventures to Brygida’s lake. He invites her to the village for the harvest feast. And while Brygida is

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Calamity – Brandon Sanderson

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is the conclusion of “The Reckoners” Trilogy – David is now in charge, with the impossible task of rescuing the Prof from himself, and maybe just saving the world in the process. It’s a definite end to the story, but I think I liked the first two books better. In this book, we get

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The Kingdom of Copper – S. A Chakraborty

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

It’s five years after the first book in this series. Nahri is continuing her work as a healer, and dreams of reopening her family’s hospital in Daevabad. Ali has been exiled to his mother’s homeland, and has found a use for the marid’s power he picked up, finding water in the desert. But events (engineered

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Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

I loved this book. At its barest bones, it’s “Rumpelstiltskin”, but the author is just using the spinning things into gold conceit and adding in Russian and Jewish folklore to get a fantastic tale of women taking charge of their lives to save the people they love. Miryem is the daughter of the local moneylender,

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Kingdom of Ruses – Kate Stradling

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Viola’s life is based on a family lie – for centuries, her family has served as the prime ministers to the Eternal Prince of their kingdom. Except there is no Eternal Prince – the family has used magic to show just enough of the Prince to keep him believable, while taking care of the kingdom

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Fierce Heart – Tara Grayce

2 Comments / At Home, Reading / Megan

This was a fun book – Essie is a princess, on her way with her brother, the king, to a meeting with the neighboring Elven kingdom. They desperately want peace, because there are worse enemies out there. Essie’s the one that comes up with the idea of offering herself in marriage to one of the

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