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From a High Tower – Mercedes Lackey

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Cross ‘Rapunzel’ with the Wild West, and you get this tale, from Lackey’s Elemental Masters series, which are all set in the turn of the last century, and feature magic of the Elements – Air, Water, Fire and Earth. Giselle was adopted by an Earth Master, taken from a family that could barely afford to […]

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Grail – Stephen R. Lawhead

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

The last two books in this series are a little out of sequence, since Arthur did die and was taken off to Avalon in the third book. So here in the fifth book, we have the story of the grail, in the middle of one of the times not covered in Arthur. After the battles

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The Blue Girl – Charles de Lint

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

When Imogene’s mother moves their family into Newford, Imogene is determined to make the most of things. She quickly makes friends with Maxine – who doesn’t seem to have any friends at school, but is the most interesting person Imogene sees. And at the same time, she manages to come to the attention of Adrian,

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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street – Natasha Pulley

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton finds a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, it saves his life by raising an alarm that causes him to leave the scene of a massive bomb explosion moments before it happens. After the bomb, Thaniel goes in search of the watchmaker, who turns out to be a

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Magic Bites – Ilona Andrews

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Kate Davies lives in an Atlanta where magic and technology switch back and forth in waves – you never know which one will be working at any given time (people have come up with great adaptations to make sure they can function in either kind of wave). Kate’s a mercenary, even though it’s clear she

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Risuko – David Kudler

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Risuko’s father was a samarai, but his death has left her family poor. And that is why Risuko’s mother sells her to Lady Chiyome. However, she soon finds that the Lady has plans for her – she’s brought back to the school that Lady Chiyome started to train shrine maidens – but they’re more than

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Ink and Bone – Rachel Caine

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Jess Brightwell lives in London in an alternate world where the library in Alexandria was never destroyed. It found a way to transmits copies of books everywhere, and now it controls all the knowledge in the world. Jess’s family are smugglers – obtaining original books for buyers who can afford them. Jess has never shown

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The Hanging Tree – Ben Aaronovitch

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

I am so annoyed that I have to wait for the next book in this series. The last book, Foxglove Summer, was a bit of an interlude from the main story – who is the Faceless Man, and why is he fighting against the Folly? Well, interlude’s over, and Peter Grant’s very much back in

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The Magician’s Ward – Patricia C. Wrede

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

So I managed to read two books set in Regency England at once, pretty much by accident. This is the sequel to Mairelon the Magician, where a street urchin named Kim helps the aforementioned magician, who turns out to be a nobleman. At the end of the first book, he asks if she’d like to be

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Goldmayne – Kate Stradling

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This book is an adaptation of two fairy tales called “Scurvyhead” and “Sir Goldenhair”, which both feature a young man named Petit Jean, who goes out into the world to make his fortune. Here, we have young Duncan, who realizes one day that he does not have to put up with the constant beatings from

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