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The Serpent’s Shadow – Mercedes Lackey

At Home, Reading / Megan

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

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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

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

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

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

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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The Furthest Station – Ben Aaronovitch

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Ghosts are starting to interact with passengers on the Tube, and Peter Grant (and the Folly) are called in on the case. One complaint about this story – it’s too short. I absolutely want more of the main story line of this series, and this was not the novella to do that. That said, you

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Shadows of Self – Brandon Sanderson

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is the second book of the second Mistborn trilogy, set three hundred years after the last trilogy. The technology of the world has come a long way, but this book especially references back to what happened in the previous trilogy (the first book of this series was lacking that to some degree). I really

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Magic Burns, Magic Strikes, Magic Bleeds – Ilona Andrews

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

So I went on a bit of binge over the past weekend, into the past few weeknights. (It was hot and humid, and doing things outside just didn’t seem fun.) So I read the first two books in a day each, and the last one over a couple nights. BF is suspicious I don’t actually

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The Hero and the Crown – Robin McKinley

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Continuing my rereading theme, here’s the prequel to The Blue Sword. Aerin is the only child of the king, by his second wife, who some considered to be a witch, so there are whispers about her. She won’t inherit the throne – that goes to her cousin Tor. Consequently, she’s not really sure what to

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