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The Grey King – Susan Cooper

At Home, Reading / Megan

I can’t reread The Dark is Rising without also rereading The Grey King. The other books in the series I have to be more in the mood for, but The Grey King to me is totally linked to The Dark is Rising. It’s actually the first book I read in this series (back in the […]

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The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Since I’ve been on a rereading binge this year, I had to bring out The Dark is Rising. Set during the twelve days of Christmas, it’s how eleven-year old Will Stanton discovers that he is an Old One – the guardians of the Light, and his first quest as an Old One – to gain

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Jack of Kinrowan – Charles de Lint

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Jacky Rowan’s just been dumped by her boyfriend, and goes out for an uncharacteristically wild night to compensate. On this night, she manages to stumble into the path of the Wild Hunt, leading her into the doorway to Faerie, where she’s hailed as the Jack of Kinrowan – a hero who can bring down the

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In Calabria – Peter S. Beagle

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Claudio Bianchi lives alone on his family’s farm in Calabria. At the beginning of the story, he can at best be described as curmudgeonly, until the day that a unicorn appears on the farm. He quickly realizes that she has chosen his farm to have her baby, and while waiting for this event, things begin

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The Serpent’s Shadow – Mercedes Lackey

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Continuing with this year’s comfort reading theme, I’m back at the beginning of the Elemental Masters series. This book is based on Snow White, and follows Maya Witherspoon. Her father was an English doctor in India, and her mother was a sorceress who gave up everything to marry her father. When both her parents die

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A Study in Sable – Mercedes Lackey

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Continuing with the Elemental Masters series, we’re now back in England (after having been in Germany for the last couple volumes), and are looping Sherlock Holmes into this magical version of our world. Or really, the Watsons, who are Elemental Mages, and take the cases that Holmes won’t take, since he’s skeptical that magic actually

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Magic Slays – Ilona Andrews

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Kate Daniels is finding life being self-employed a little hard. The Knights of Merciful Aid have been bad-mouthing her, so she’s not getting any work. She’s being funded by the Pack, but wants to make it on her own two feet, not get money just because she’s the Beast Lord’s mate. So, when the local

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Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater

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In book three of the Raven Cycle, Blue Sargent and the Algionby boys are growing closer to finding Glendower, because by this point in the story, they’ve acquired powers. This book is about them accepting those powers – in many ways, it’s about growing up. Adam must accept that he’s a magician, but also that

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Sorcerer to the Crown – Zen Cho

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This book has a really interesting set up – a Regency England in a world with magic, where England has been losing their ability to work magic. The Sorcerer Royal, Sir Stephen, realized that there are plenty of other powerful magicians in the world, including Zacharias, a young slave that he bought because he sensed

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A College of Magics – Caroline Stevermer

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Faris is the Duchess of Galazon, but until she reaches her majority, her uncle’s in charge, and he’s shipped her off to Greenlaw College. Faris wants nothing to do with this choice, but it turns out, her mother has specified Greenlaw in her will, because Greenlaw teaches magic. This story isn’t all about the college

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