Read for the Vampire Reading Challenge. I’ll admit I was actually more than a little pleased when Paperspine inexplicably leapt my queue and sent me the next Blood Ties book. Due to certain events that happened in the last book, I was quite curious to see what would happen next in the Vicki/Fitzroy/Cellucci saga. I’m […]
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. In the Twelve Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to be the Chrestomanci – an enchanter charged with making sure magic isn’t misused among the different worlds. This book is an omnibus of two of the Chrestomanci books. In the first (Charmed Life), when
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Magic and the Modern Girl is the last book in a series about Jane Madison, who was a perfectly normal modern-day girl until the day she discovered a magical library in the basement of her new home, and that she could use it, because she’s a witch. While definitely a fantasy-based story, this is also
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Read for the RIP IV and Vampire Reading Challenges. This is the fifth book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, and it’s quite as enjoyable as the ones that have gone before. One thing I’ve grown to appreciate about these books is Charlaine Harris’ ability to weave together at least three separate plot lines that by
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Read for the RIP IV and Vampire Reading Challenges. This book is best summed up as: Henry and Mike fight over Vicki, now with the undead! Undead joking aside, this book was clearly the source material whenever anyone on the TV show needed to deal with Henry and Mike’s prickly relationship, and it’s great fun.
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Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. Jenny is a thirteen-year-old from New York City whose world is turned upside down when her mother marries an Englishman. The next thing she knows, she and her mother have moved to a farm in Dorset, and she’s acquired two new step-brothers. What follows is a combination ghost
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Read for the 2009 YA Reading Challenge. Arthur Penhaligon is a normal boy who was never meant to be a hero. In fact, he should have died, except his life was saved by the sudden arrival a key that’s shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Arthur discovers that this key belongs to Mister
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Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. There’s a surprising amount of variety in this slim book of short stories – all of which are retellings of fairy tales, with a modern, adult twist. The title story is a retelling of the story of Bluebeard, this time set on the coast of Brittany, as a
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Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. Jill Kismet is a Hunter, trained to keep regular humans safe from Hellbreed. It’s not an easy job. Her teacher was recently killed, and she’s made a deal with one of the local hellbreed leaders that gives her great power, but may be her undoing. In the midst
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The Privilege of the Sword is the story of Lady Katherine Samantha Campion Talbert, who is shipped off to live with her uncle, the mad Duke of Tremontaine. He wants to make Katherine into a swordsman. He’ll also pay off all her family’s debts in the process, so Katherine dutifully goes to the city, and
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