Interesting magical world – it’s based on Jewish magical mythology, where magic was brought in based on heritage (shocker – there are a lot more people of Jewish decent than you’d think), but it’s an all or nothing thing. Ashira Cohen always thought she as mundane, even having a Nefesh father. She’s made a life […]
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These stories are about a man ‘who has many names but only a single nature’ and his travels through a mythical land just outside of regular time. He’s been tasked with getting rid of chaos. I think this is most easily compared to the Jack Vance’s Dying Earth stories. There’s a similar vibe to them,
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Aelis has been drafted straight out of training to be the warden of Lone Pine, a town out on the frontier. It’s a far cry from the city where she grew up, and earning the trust of the people of Lone Pine proves harder than she could have imagined. I liked this book, but it
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This trilogy is an interesting take on Pride and Prejudice. It’s really only the first book that follows Austen’s story. For the next two, the story is just about how those characters act in this fantasy world. What I find interesting is how many people complained because it went dark. I’ll be honest – I
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This is the final book of the The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, which is about the daughters of several different Victorian era villains – Jekyll and Hyde (they each have a daughter), Dr. Moreau, Frankenstein, and others. In this book, we also get an ancient Egyptian queen, and Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty
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Another cozy story. After the events of the first book, Miyara is suddenly required to win a tea contest to cement her status as tea master. And her sister (still a princess) has tracked her down, and isn’t convinced the Miyara shouldn’t still be a princess herself. This story ends up being about Miyara becoming
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This series is a wild ride. The last book has one of the least reliable narrators ever, that more or less resolves itself by the end of that particular part of the story. So leading into this book, you feel like you should know what’s going on, except it gets less and less clear as
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I got out of the house on Wednesday night! It’s funny being four years out from the lockdown – it both feels four years ago, and yesterday. I do things every once in a while that really strike me, because I couldn’t do them not so long ago. Which is funny in this case, because
This was a fun read. Set in 1920’s Hollywood, Norah is a war widow, rescued from her life in England by her sister in law Christine, aka the famous actress Chrysanda Flammade. She’s mostly along to take care of the dogs and marvel at the life she’s managed to stumble into, when strange things start
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We finally get a story centered on Kimberley Adams, the FBI agent who’s been over to London a couple times to help out Peter. Along the way, she’s become the go to person at the FBI for ‘unusual occurrences’, aka magic. That’s how she finds herself up in Wisconsin in the winter, with a snow
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