Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. Jane True lives in the tiny Maine village of Rockabill, and she’s always known she was different. You see, she swims. In the ocean. In all seasons. In Maine. If you’ve ever been in the ocean here, you know that’s just not normal. It’s always […]
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. In honor of the recently departed Diana Wynne Jones, one of my favorite fantasy YA authors, I simply had to include a book of hers in my Once Upon a Time Reading. In fact, I managed two, in this omnibus book from the Chrestomanci series.
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. Sealey Head is a sleepy little town on the edge of the ocean. There are several prominent families: the merchant Blairs, whose eldest daughter Gwyneth is being courted by Raven Sproule, the heir of wealthy gentlemen farmer’s family, but who instead fancies Judd Cauley, the
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Read rather quickly for the Once Upon a Time V reading challenge, courtesy of the April Fool’s Nor’easter. In the previous books of this trilogy, Evie Scelan brought down a group of magicians that had been ruling Boston’s magical undercurrent for centuries, and then took control of the Wild Hunt to gain back something important
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Challenge. Have you ever read a book, or series of books, because you just had to see what exactly the author was going to do next, because you never knew what would be? (Original Dune series, I’m looking at you!) This series, which began with A Princess
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. Claidi is about to marry her true love, Argul, but on the morning of her wedding, she’s kidnapped, and brought to a castle in far off land. It’s surrounded by impassable jungle, and the only person that lives there is Prince Venn, who looks a lot like Argul.
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Elantris was once a shining city, peopled by a race of near immortals, with white hair and nearly glowing skin. They ruled Arelon with wisdom and benevolence. The truly wonderful thing about Elantrians was that they could come from anywhere, noble or beggar – the Transformation happened overnight, and those lucky souls would leave their
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My reading of the Narnia books when I was young was a bit disjointed, because I relied on the library. This was the second of the books that I read, even though it’s fourth in the series (I consider the order of the books to be the published order – reading them chronologically is a
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I’m not sure how I managed to miss that this book is in the middle of a series when I added it to my Booksfree queue, but I did, and felt bad returning it unread, so I did read through it. Fortunately, this seems to be the start of a separate story arc with some
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In this second book of the Temeraire series, the Chinese Emperor has found out that the dragon egg intended for Napoleon went to the British instead, and has sent his brother to demand Temeraire’s return to China. Laurence and the rest of Temeraire’s crew are reluctant to go, but higher ups in the British government
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