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Calling on Dragons – Patricia C. Wrede

At Home, Reading / Megan

I have to admit, I’m a little sad I only have one book left in this series.   I know I can count on these books when I want to be amused and entertained. The Wizards are up to their old tricks with the Enchanted Forest, and since Queen Cimorene is pregnant, everyone else is […]

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The Well of Tears – Cecilia Dart-Thorton

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I still love this author’s use of language – she reminds me of Patricia McKillip – her landscape descriptions are amazing.     I loved the first trilogy of hers that I read.     I’m finding this series a bit more of a slog. The series is basically the story of the descendants of

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The Music of Darkover – ed. Elisabeth Waters

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Published in 2013, this was the first new Darkover anthology in a very long time.     The music theme apparently grew out of a submission for the planned anthology (Stars of Darkover – currently sitting in my TBR pile) that was based on a Darkover filk song, but was way too long to include

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Spirits in the Wires – Charles de Lint

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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. If you’ve read any of de Lint’s Newford books, you know he’s created an urban fantasy setting that incorporates parts of many world mythos (mythi?    What is the plural for that word?).       If a human mind has conceived it, it exists,

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Shadow Magic – Patricia C. Wrede

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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Lady Altheia is kidnapped on the night of her birthday celebration.      While her family frantically searches for her, she wakes up in the forest, and realizes her captors are the Lithmern- ancient enemies of Alkyra.     What’s worse is that they’ve brought

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Dust Girl – Sarah Zettel

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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Callie lives with her mother in Kansas.       It’s the 1930s, and nearly everyone else has left their town, due to the choking dust.    But Callie’s mother won’t leave – Callie’s father had promised to come back to them, and Callie’s mother

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An Earthly Knight – Janet McNaughton

At Home, Reading / Megan

Here’s another great entry in the list of books that are mostly historical fiction, with just a touch of a fairy tale thrown in.    In this case, it’s a combination of the stories “Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight” and “Tam Lin”. Lady Jeanette is the younger daughter of a Norman Lord living in

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The Silver Rose – Susan Carroll

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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Have you ever accidently found yourself several books into a series, with no labels to tell you that, leaving you to wonder exactly why you’ve been missing something, and not knowing exactly what that something is?     That was my experience with this book.

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Shades of Milk and Honey – Mary Robinette Kowel

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Here’s a slight twist on the Regency romance – in this world, some people are gifted with the abilities of glamour – the magical ability to manipulate light.  At its most basic form, it’s considered womanly magic, something used to make the home brighter and more comfortable. Where the regular Regency romance comes in is

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The Alloy of Law – Brandon Sanderson

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I really like how this book picks up a few centuries after the action of the Mistborn novels – society has changed and evolved due to what happened in those books – it’s really cool to see how that has changed, and what was brought forward from that older time. The setting is part Old

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