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Changing the World – ed. Mercedes Lackey

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This is another Valdemar anthology opened up to other authors, and it’s another solid offering. Per usual, my favorite story is the Mercedes Lackey story, which in this case, is about the girl left behind when her sweetheart is Chosen to be a Herald. It’s a rather unexpected story, which I think is why I […]

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Shadows – Robin McKinley

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The backdrop of this book is an alternate world where magic is real, but the government of North America figured out where the magic genes are and chopped them out of everyone a couple of generations ago. But there is still magic in the rest of the world. Maggie’s a senior in high school, and

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Gifts – Ursula K. LeGuin

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Orrec lives in the Uplands, a poor region of farms that hides a people with extraordinary gifts. Each family’s gift is different. Orrec’s family’s gift if Unmaking, and his gift is untamed. He is forced to blindfold his eyes so he doesn’t destroy the people he loves. That’s really an aside to this book. The

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The Raven Ring – Patricia C. Wrede

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This is the last book in the Lyra collection for Kindle. Eleret must go to the city of Ciaron to collect her mother’s things, after her mother is killed in battle. They are Cilhar, warriors, and Eleret, though young, is tried and true, though unfamiliar with the ways of the Imperial city. Once she arrives

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Pendragon – Stephen R. Lawhead

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I was very curious to see how this book was going to work – it’s a tacked on end to a former trilogy that actually ended with the death of Arthur.    So bringing back another Arthur story was definitely a bold move.     What this story does is go back to a few

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Tapping the Dream Tree – Charles de Lint

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I’m often surprised how many de Lint books are out there that I still haven’t read.    The man is nothing short of prolific.    This is a book of short stories, with familiar characters, and characters that are just passing through or around Newford. My favorite story in this book is “Seven Wild Sisters”

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Bone Crossed – Patricia Briggs

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This is the fourth of the Mercy Thompson books, and definitely has an air of a between stories story, though far better done than what I’ve been reading in the later Sookie Stackhouse books. There were some rather serious events in the last book that Mercy is dealing with, including having killed one of the

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Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Steve Hockensmith

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This book is a prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and I only picked it up because I didn’t have to pay for anything.   I’ll admit to having no expectations, but it was actually not too bad. It’s a couple years before the action of Pride and Prejudice, and the Bennett girls have

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The Dream Thieves – Maggie Stiefvater

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I am liking this series so much more than the Shiver books, which was my original intro to this author.   In fact, I’d say that Shiver is probably not like the rest of her work, because I’ve liked everything else I’ve read of hers so much more than that book would have lead me

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Dead Reckoning – Charlaine Harris

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In contrast to my last vampire included read, book eleven in the Sookie Stackhouse series is getting a little long in the tooth.    I literally could care less about her relationship with Eric, Sam’s dating life leaves much to be desired, there better be a massive payoff to whatever she’s leading up to involving

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