Charles de Lint does high fantasy. There’s not a hint of Newford or any other urban influence in sight! Cerin was a fairly ordinary seventeen-year-old boy, raised by a village witch in the High Downs. His entire life is changed when he meets the maid of the Grey Rose, the most beautiful maid he has […]
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The HMS Reliant is at sea when it captures a French frigate carrying an unexpected cargo: a nearly ready to hatch dragon’s egg. When the dragon hatches, it bonds with the Reliant’s Captain, Will Laurence, and with Temeraire, Laurence leaves the Navy, and joins the Aerial Corps to defend England against Napoleon’s Army. This particular
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This first of Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental magic books is a take on Beauty and the Beast, which takes place in turn of the 20th century San Francisco, just before the great earthquake. Rose Hawkins is the daughter of a Chicago University professor, raised as a scholar, and therefore not quite ready to take her place
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The Wandering Unicorn is the tale of Melusine, a fairy once married to a medieval French knight, and therefore founder of the house of Lusignan. Due to a curse, she must take the form of a woman with a serpent’s body, and has been chased away from her beloved Raymondin. Though she can no longer
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. The Grey Isles lie in some unnamed sea, a land of sorcerers and warriors, whose people are well aware that the Lords of Chaos have entered their land, dooming it to fall beneath the waves. The stories in this book are of a number of
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Challenge. Eddi McCandry is a musician in Minneapolis, playing in band with her boyfriend, Stuart. Neither the band or the relationship are going anywhere, and she breaks off her connection to both after a particularly bad night. Against her friend Carla’s (the band’s drummer) advice, she walks
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Read for the 2010 YA and the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenges. Every person that’s read Graceling, every blog that I follow that’s reviewed it, has had nothing but the best things to say about Graceling, so I started this book with high expectations. I’m very happy to say it didn’t disappoint. In
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Read for the YA 2010 Reading Challenge. Life at Obernewtyn has gained a bit of normalcy. Since they’re so far from the Council’s lands to the south, the Misfits are protected by their remoteness, and they believe they have time to gather their forces before the Council comes to investigate them. They’ve divided themselves into
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Miranda is a pretty typical teenager living with her adoptive parents in a small college town in western Massachusetts. She was born in Romania, but has little memory of life there before Rachel and Stanley saw her and took her away. What she doesn’t know
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Peri has lost both her parents to the Sea – her father when he left one morning in his fishing boat, and her mother, because she has never stopped waiting for Peri’s father to come home, and no longer lives in quite the same world
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