If I wanted to get a chic lit or romance reader into fantasy, I’d give them this series. (First book reviewed here.) Twyla is 53, and is still trying to trying to find her way into what it really means to be a wife/widow, mother and grandmother. I don’t have kids, but I’m the right […]
The Undermining of Twyla and Frank – Megan Bannen Read More »
Iris and Malina are twins, and their family has a magical ability to ‘gleam’ – manipulate ordinary things into art. But their mother has always insisted that they keep their abilities secret, and that they never fall in love. This story is set in Montenegro, and I really liked the descriptions of their home city
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This book continues the Black Jewels series, which had been pretty much wrapped up, so I was interested to see where the author would go from there. I really liked the parts of the book with Lucivar’s family among the Eyriens. He was given a lot of power when Janelle Angelline passed on, and seeing
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Antsy’s story began in Lost in the Moment and Found, and this book is a lovely conclusion for her. The last book ended with Antsy leaving the Shop Where all Lost Things Go, angry at the price that children weren’t being warned they’d need to pay if they opened doors from the shop. In the
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One thing I enjoy about the Penric and Des books is that the author isn’t afraid to go out of order in time, so this book goes back to Penric’s days with the Princess-Archdivine in Martensbridge. He’s so young! (It is actually noticeable in certain ways that he interacts with Desdemona.) This is a great
Testimony of Mute Things – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
This is not an author I’ve read before. Her previous books are mysteries, and actually this book is a murder mystery, but one with a fantastic fantasy world built around it. Neema has risen to be the High Scholar for the Emperor Bersun, in an empire where each emperor or empress serves for 24 years.
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This book is in the companion series to the Mercy Thompson books, centering on the wolves of the Marrok’s pack in Montana. What’s fun about this book is we get to see some of the wildlings wolves, wolves who Bran has taken into his specific protection because they can’t be around regular werewolves, let alone
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This is a trip of a modern fairy tale. I suppose I should have expected this, as Saint Death’s Daughter was an absolute trip of regular fantasy novel. This is a shorter work, with goblins and fae, and travel between the worlds they inhabit, if you know the way. Desdemona finds the way after realizing
Desdemona and the Deep – C. S. E. Cooney Read More »
My mother read this book before me, and said it wasn’t her favorite. Not that she didn’t like it, but that it just wasn’t what she was expecting. So I wasn’t quite sure what to expect going into it. Set in Regency era England, Amelia and her cousin Serena have been sent from their South
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This book has a really unique voice to it. It’s a conversation from the main character, and he manages to throw in so much world-building while it feels like he’s just casually sauntering through his life. Kinch is a thief – that was his alternative to joining the army for the wars against the goblins.
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