This is a twist on Cinderella. It starts with the step mother asking Eugenie to stay away from the coming masquerade ball – everyone knows that Eugenie is prettier than her two step sisters, and because she will inherit her father’s estate once she comes of age, it’s vitally important that they find themselves good […]
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Following the action of The Scarlet Thread, Kai has managed to escape from the home of the gods lead by Hades – it would seem that their reasons for helping her might not always be pure, and they’ve neglected to tell her that her friends at the old institute, who are like sisters, are now
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Salya is a Traveler, and as she’s approaching adulthood, she’s feeling the pressure to devote herself to the healing trade of her grandmother. It’s a very serious thing among her people –a true vocation. But she’s not quite sure she’s ready for it. One night, an injured man stumbles upon their camp. Bren is a
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LibraryThing Early Reviewers book Tam Paradiso is a cop in Philadelphia who also happens to be one of the few people that can see otherworldly creatures, so she has a double job – cop by day, protecting the world from evil by night. As she’s tracking a particularly nasty creature one night, another creature hunter,
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I can’t say this book is reinventing the YA star-crossed teenage love story trope, but it has a few things I like that are a bit different. We have Ethan, who’s lived a small South Carolina town all his life, and has wanted to leave for ages. His high school is full of people who
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This book is nominally set in the Grishaverse, but is all the fairy tales they would tell there. You can definitely see the parallels to tales in our normal world. My favorite story was “Ayama and the Thorn Wood”, which is sort of a cross between “Cinderella” and “Beauty and the Beast”. The younger son
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Fawn has fled her family. She’s done an incredibly stupid thing, and feels the only way to remedy it is to run away. On her way, she runs into Dag – a member of a patrol of Lakewalkers. The Farmer folk are a bit leery of the Lakewalkers, who have magic, which they use to
The Sharing Knife: Beguilement – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
This novella is a bit of a sea change from the earlier Penric stories. Pen’s patron, the Princess Arch-Divine, has died, and he’s a bit adrift. He’s ended up in the service of the Duke of Adria, who sends him on a covert mission to meet with a general in a nearby land who’s contacted
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This is the second book in the Thursday Next series. Thursday is a cop in the Special Operations portion of the police in an alternate England. In the last book, she ends up married after various adventures that include going into the novel Jane Eyre, and changing the ending. Not too far into the book,
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Three girls wake up in a field with no memories, but knowing that they need to flee. They clearly have some magic ability, and they also know they’re FireSouls, magic makers that share the soul of a dragon. Problem with that being that FireSouls are generally thrown into magical jail. It’s about ten years later,
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