I actually came to Mercedes Lackey’s books through the Tarma and Kethry books (I remember liking the covers), which are actually not so great a gateway. The first book (The Oathbound) isn’t really their first story – it’s a short story that appears in one of the Sword and Sorceress anthologies. I found these when […]
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Napoleon invades England! Obviously, at this point, the Temeraire novels have gone pretty far off the history of the actual Napoleonic wars, but that’s good, because they’d otherwise be way too predictable. In the last book, Laurence was sentenced to hang as a traitor, for bringing the cure to the dragon plague to the mainland
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Lucy Derrick is a young woman of good breeding, but no money. When her father died, she was forced to live with her uncle, a cruel man who wants nothing to do with her, and whose sole efforts on her behalf are to engage her to a local mill owner. Lucy can’t see any ways
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This is the second book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, where we find Mendanbar, the King of the Enchanted Forest, in a bit of a pickle with the local wizards. In an attempt to enlist the help of the King of the Dragons, Mendanbar mets Kazul’s Princess, Cimorene, who is just about to go looking
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So, what do you follow a deep, dark dystopian treatise on the human condition with? Soft core fantasy porn. I’ve decided that’s really the best way to characterize the Black Jewels books. They’re completely written from a women’s point of view, and are totally a guilty pleasure. It does help that they have a unique
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I have long enjoyed the Valdemar series, so I’ve had this book on my radar for a bit, and managed to snag it from Bookmooch. I will say, I think I’m glad I didn’t really pay for it. It’s definitely the kind of thing that was much more useful before the internet came along. And
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I like Valdemar, and I like that the author has opened it up to other authors in the short story anthologies she’s been publishing. Some are definitely better than others. This is one of the others. None of the stories particularly stuck out at me, but I enjoyed my read. Definitely comfort food reading if
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Well here’s something you don’t see every day – a non-Newford Charles de Lint book. Angharad is a tinker. When her entire family is killed by a plague, she’s not sure how to go on, but the fey of the land gift her a harp,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. Just before the invasion of William of Normandy, two sisters live in a Saxon hall in southern England. Allison is the legitimate daughter of the lord, and Wildecent has always been assumed to be his byblow, except that she remembers different parents before her life
Unicorn and Dragon – Lynn Abbey Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. The legends of Prester John were popular among medieval Christians. He was said to be a priest and king of a Christian kingdom somewhere amongst the Muslims kingdoms of the Middle East. He was thought to be a wise and benevolent ruler, and it was
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