Read for the Once Upon a Time X Reading Challenge. Fiametta is the daughter of a goldsmith in an alternate Renaissance Italy where magic controls many of the arts, including her father’s. Fiamatta herself is a mage, but her father has not trained her – as a daughter, her abilities will eventually be lost
The Spirit Ring – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time X Reading Challenge. This is a really interesting take on the Rumplestiltskin tale – it begins with a young man trying to win the right to wed his sweetheart, when the father would rather she marry the miller. So he promises to spin her a wedding dress
Spinners – Donna Jo Napoli and Richard Tchen Read More »
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
Broken Homes – Ben Aaronovitch Read More »
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
Whispers Underground – Ben Aaronovitch Read More »
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
Caught in Crystal – Patricia C. Wrede Read More »
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
River Secrets – Shannon Hale Read More »
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
Curtsies and Conspiracies – Gail Carriger Read More »
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
Stars of Darkover – ed. Deborah J. Ross and Elisabeth Waters Read More »
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
Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey Read More »
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
Arthur – Stephen R. Lawhead Read More »
