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Broken Homes – Ben Aaronovitch

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In this book, the families Thames came back in force, as the Folly staff (Nightingale, Peter and Leslie) are more or less ordered to provide security when Father and Mother Thames hold Court for the first time in about a hundred and fifty years.     Needless to say, having the two gods of the […]

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Whispers Underground – Ben Aaronovitch

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So before we left for England, the BF was looking for something to take on the plane, and I suggested Midnight Riot (aka Rivers of London), the first book in this series.    Well, he blew through that book, bought the rest that were out and we didn’t already have yet while we were in

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Caught in Crystal – Patricia C. Wrede

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Kayl was once a member of the Sisterhood of Stars, but on a mission for them, when things go disastrously wrong, and the Sisterhood tries to blame the sorcerers they were traveling with, Kayl leaves the Sisterhood behind, and marries one of those sorcerers.      They end up running an inn in a quiet

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River Secrets – Shannon Hale

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Razo is pretty ordinary –he’s not particularly tall, or a particularly good soldier.    So he’s really not sure why he’s been asked to go along on an important diplomatic mission to Tira, the country that Bayern just defeated in a terrible war. But Razo’s friend Enna (the fire mage that defeated the Tirans, though

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Curtsies and Conspiracies – Gail Carriger

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I adore these books – the story of Sophronia Temminnick, who is more or less the charity case at Miss Geraldine’s Finishing School, which is really a school specializing in training young ladies in espionage.   On a dirigible.   Have I mentioned it’s twinned with a boy’s school for evil geniuses? Book two involves

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Stars of Darkover – ed. Deborah J. Ross and Elisabeth Waters

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Is it bad that my overwhelming thought about this anthology is that I’m glad that there was no one story that was just so amateurish it completely threw me out of the world of the book?    Most of the older anthologies had at least one of those stories, and I don’t know if the

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Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey

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This book is in Lackey’s Elemental Magic series, where fairy tales are told against the Edwardian era, with elemental magic (Air, Water, Earth and Fire) thrown into the mix. This book is Cinderella, but set in the time of World War I.    Eleanor Robinson has been chained to the hearth of her home by

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Arthur – Stephen R. Lawhead

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This in the final book I had read in the Pendragon Cycle, back in the day (aka, high school).    It was also formerly the last book in the cycle – and it’s very much an end book, so it would appear that the two books that come after it take place in time frames

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The Book of Life – Deborah Harkness

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I get the feeling the author really wanted to stick to a trilogy with this series, but man did she pack a lot into this last book. In the first book, Diana Bishop, witch, and Matthew Clairmont, vampire, meet and fall in love.    It’s forbidden.    You get a little taste of why.  

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Summers at Castle Auburn – Sharon Shinn

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Read for Once Upon a Time X. Corie is the illegitimate daughter of a lord, but for most of her life has lived for each summer with that family.     She adores her older sister Elisandra, who is engaged to marry Prince Bryan, who will one day be King. The story starts with Corie

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