Read for the RIP V Reading Challenge. It turns out that vampires had come to the American colonies to escape the hostile population in the Old World, and rapidly realized that the slaves here were an ideal food-source. So, the Civil War was actually a battle fought between vampires and a group of mortals that […]
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This collection of science fiction and fantasy stories was built around the single premise that the main character must be a woman warrior. There’s an interesting mix of stories here, some about war, some about the battles of real life. A couple of the sci fi stories featured some flavor of war being fought remotely,
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Solstice Wood is a sequel to Winter Rose, and it’s also an interesting study of the variability of the author’s writing style. In the present day, Sylvia Lynn, the great-great-great granddaughter of Rois in Winter Rose, is called back to Lynn Hall when her grandfather Liam dies. Sylvia left Lynn Hall as soon as she
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Read for the 2010 YA Reading Challenge. I’ve come to the end of another series that I’ve very much enjoyed. I’d been both anticipating and dreading finally reading the The Singing – it’s nice to see a story to a satisfying conclusion, but also sad that there are no new tales to look forward to.
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This is the sixth book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, and because I’m also watching the True Blood series on television, I’m to the point where the two story lines have diverged enough that it’s strange reading ahead in the novels, and seeing things that would never be able to happen in the world of
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Charles de Lint does high fantasy. There’s not a hint of Newford or any other urban influence in sight! Cerin was a fairly ordinary seventeen-year-old boy, raised by a village witch in the High Downs. His entire life is changed when he meets the maid of the Grey Rose, the most beautiful maid he has
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The HMS Reliant is at sea when it captures a French frigate carrying an unexpected cargo: a nearly ready to hatch dragon’s egg. When the dragon hatches, it bonds with the Reliant’s Captain, Will Laurence, and with Temeraire, Laurence leaves the Navy, and joins the Aerial Corps to defend England against Napoleon’s Army. This particular
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This first of Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental magic books is a take on Beauty and the Beast, which takes place in turn of the 20th century San Francisco, just before the great earthquake. Rose Hawkins is the daughter of a Chicago University professor, raised as a scholar, and therefore not quite ready to take her place
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The Wandering Unicorn is the tale of Melusine, a fairy once married to a medieval French knight, and therefore founder of the house of Lusignan. Due to a curse, she must take the form of a woman with a serpent’s body, and has been chased away from her beloved Raymondin. Though she can no longer
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. The Grey Isles lie in some unnamed sea, a land of sorcerers and warriors, whose people are well aware that the Lords of Chaos have entered their land, dooming it to fall beneath the waves. The stories in this book are of a number of
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