Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Kate and her sister Alicia are both ladies in waiting to the Lady Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth I) when her sister Mary is still Queen. Since Alicia is the sweet, innocent one, an imprudent remark of hers is blamed on Kate, and Kate […]
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Calder is a Fetch – the chosen dead that guide most souls to Heaven. They’re specially chosen, but Calder has always wondered if his being chosen was a mistake. One day, he arrives at the death bed of a baby, and falls in love with the baby’s nanny. This
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. I do love these books. I’ve read two of the three in this series so far, and both have made me cry. (Which is a high compliment. I don’t cry for books.) In the Dells, there are monsters – varieties of animals
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Firethorn had grown up as the servant of a woman of the Blood, but when the Dame died, and her nephew inherited her property, Firethorn fled to the King’s Forest, where she lived for a year. In that time, she was forced to eat
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. What I really like about Brandon Sanderson’s work is that he comes up with fresh, incredibly different systems of magic for all of his separate worlds. Figuring out how things work is half the fun of his novels. This particular book is slanted
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IX Reading Challenge. Atrix Wolfe is the foremost mage of Chamenuard, and finds himself on battleground in neighboring Pelucir. The prince of Kardeth is laying seige to the King of Pelucir, and if Pelucir falls, Chamenuard will be next. Mages are not meant to
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With the news of Terry Practchett’s death, I had to read a book of his. I first read one of his books in either late middle school, or early high school – my mother gifted me with a book club edition of The Wyrd Sisters. I’d never read anything like it
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents – Terry Pratchett Read More »
This is a young adult book, and isn’t explicitly set in Newford, but very well could be. There are two teenagers as the protagonists: TJ – whose parents lost all their money, and had to move to the city to get new jobs, meaning they gave up the farm, and the horse
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This is a book of four novellas, set in four larger universes the author has written about. I’ve not read any of her other books (my mother gave me this one), and I think this was a pretty good flavor of what her work is like. There was only one of the stories that I
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I was so excited to see that there was another Old Kingdom book coming out. So excited in fact, that when I bought the book, I sat on it for a full month because I was afraid I’d hyped it up too much in my mind, and I’d be disappointed. Happily, I was not. I
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