Read for the YA 2010 Reading Challenge. Arriman the Awful is the Wizard of the North, and while he thoroughly enjoys advancing the dark arts, he’s getting on in years, and realizes that he needs someone to take over from him. So, he needs a son. Which means he needs a wife. And, of course, […]
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Though I’m a huge fan of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books, I’ve not read much of the anthologies that have come out with other authors playing around in the world of Velgarth. This is mostly driven by my having read all of the anthologies connected to Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover world, which had a very uneven
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Read for the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. Sylvi is the fourth child of the king of Balsinland, a land that the humans there share with the pegasi that they found there when they discovered the country. The pegasi are fully intelligent beings with their own king and culture, but for some reason, only human magicians
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Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. Galina, Yakov, and Fyodor all live in Moscow, and are all broken in one way or another. For Yakov, it’s a failed marriage. For Fyodor, it’s fear – fear that has kept him living on the streets. And Galina has been hospitalized a number of times for schizophrenia.
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Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. Shori awakens in a cave, terribly injured, and knowing nothing of her past. Working through a haze of pain, she finds herself near a compound of buildings that was recently burned to the ground, and knows that she’s been there before. What Shori doesn’t remember is that she’s
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Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. Kaye has lived a nomadic life for most of her sixteen years – following her mother’s rock band from city to city. An attack on her mother sends them home to her grandmother’s house in New Jersey, and against this surprisingly gritty (for a YA novel) backdrop, Kaye’s
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Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. Harry Dresden is a wizard, a fully practicing mage, the only one he knows of that actually advertises what he is. He takes the occasional odd job finding missing things, and also occasionally helps out the Chicago police. Storm Front starts out as a number of seemingly unrelated
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This is the sequel to The Sorceress and the Cygnet, where we first met the ruling family of Ro Holding. The Holder has three daughters, the youngest of whom, Nyx, is a sorceress, and through the course of the first book, also becomes the heir to the holding. In The Cygnet and the Firebird, Nyx
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Read for the 2010 YA and RIP V Reading Challenges. I love Neil Gaiman. He’s probably the only person in the universe that can start a story off with a toddler managing to escape the murder of the rest of his family by wandering into a graveyard, and make it into a more or less
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Katie Chandler is from a small town in Texas, but has moved to New York City to live with friends from college. She’s getting used to seeing things that seem a bit odd – like the semi-regular occurrence of random people wearing wings – because it is New York City after all. Until the day
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