This is a really sweet book. Tao is far from home – brought to a new country after her father dies, and her mother remarries. She could be a Seer, but she believes that her vision killed her father, and she has no desire to use it again. Her stepfather would have had her join […]

This is a fun series starter. Jay is starting work with the hidden magical society that manages magic in England. He’s paired with Ves – she seems a bit wild (colored hair and all) and he isn’t, but as we settle in, we start finding out a lot more about these new partners. They get

When I was picking some plane reading, I remembered I had this book in a series set in Edinburgh. Sure, it’s an alternate history Edinburgh with magic, after some sort of catastrophe that’s set back the lives of a lot of the citizens, but it’s Edinburgh! (And fairly accurate from what I could tell after

This is a fun book – Riley’s summoned up to an island in Michigan to meet her aunt – the sister of her mother, who recently passed away. She’s hoping to learn more about her mother, but when she gets there, her aunt has already passed away. But she’s left messages behind, because Riley is

This series is a very interesting mash up of fairy tale tropes. In this story, we meet Cass, twin sister to Avalon, who we’ve met in the last book. Cass escaped the gingerbread house where Ava was held hostage. She never stopped looking for her sister, and has been traveling around doing odd jobs to

This was a nice spin on faeries. Emily Wilde is a professor at Cambridge who’s compiling an encyclopedia of the fae, world wide. At the start of our story, she’s arriving at a small town in a tiny Nordic country, hoping to meet their fae. Emily’s a bit prickly, so initially makes a bad impression

I’ve got to get better at reading series more closely together. Since I’ve been reformatting all my old blog posts, I’ve seen how far behind I am in this series, which is really silly, because we own all the books. This book makes no sense if you haven’t read everything that’s come before – there

Loved this book – it’s a great mash up of fairy tale (The Goose Girl) and Regency novels. (Per the author – I’d give a gothic horror edge as well, so a bit of Northanger Abbey.) Cordelia’s mother Evangelina is a sorceress, and has used her power in the past to have men take care

This is the third book in the Custard Protocol series, and we’re not in Rue’s point of view in this one. The hero of this tale is her best friend, Primrose Tunstall. Prim’s the practical one on the airship, so it’s fun to see things happening from her point of view. The main part of

This is a charming story, written in 1926. It’s the tale of the free state of Dorimare, which banished its nobility and magic. It’s been a few centuries, and strange things are afoot. With magic gone, the leading citizens aren’t quite sure what to do, and hijinks ensue. Dorimare is loving drawn, and the characters