In this prequel to the City of Ember, a girl named Nickie has come to the small North Carolina town of Yonwood with her aunt so that they can get her great-grandfather’s house ready to sell. At the same time, the United States is teetering at the end of war with an unnamed enemy (it’s […]
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Lady Diana Furnaval’s husband, William, is the last in the line of gatekeepers. It turns out the family estate has a gate into another realm on it, and William’s family has kept the worst of what can come from the gate from effecting other people. There are of course other gates, and when William is
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This book is billed as the sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, but it actually takes a little while for Howl and Sophie to make an appearance. Instead, the main character is a young woman named Charmain, who has been drafted to mind her Great-Uncle’s house while he’s away being cured of some unnamed illness. Turns
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When Grace was young, she was attacked by wolves in her back yard. She thought she was dead, but somehow, ended up back in her house, safe. From then on, she would often catch a glimpse of one member of the pack watching her – she always knew it was the same wolf because of
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I think the Sookie books are getting a little long in the tooth. (Though not as bad as the tv show, which I stopped watching a couple of seasons ago.) In this book, Sookie’s great-grandfather, the fairy prince, comes to warn her that there’s war in the fairy realms, between his faction, which likes humans,
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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. Mercy Thompson owes a few people some favors. Since she can turn into a coyote whenever she likes, her vampire friend Stefan asks her to go along when he needs to deliver a message to another one of his kind. Unfortunately, it turns out that this vampire has
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Read for the RIP VIII Reading Challenge. A middle aged man has returned to the town he grew up in for a funeral. Afterwards, he drives around aimlessly, and realizes that he is drawn to the farm at the end of the lane from where he grew up. When he was young, he remembered that
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This is the last book of the Kate and Cecy Regency themed books that happen to involve magic. (It’s ten years later, so this one actually takes a bit of a steam punk turn.) Cecy, and her husband James, have been asked by the Prime Minister to investigate the disappearance of a German magician who
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The Woodcutter has no other name – his ancestors were appointed long ago to keep the Wood on the border of the Fae lands and Mortal lands free from the influence of dark magic. One terrible day, he finds a girl in a red hood already dead, and a princess with skin as white as
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This is a novella from the 500 Kingdoms series, in which the Tradition forces people into certain paths based on fairy tale characters, sometimes to good, sometimes to bad. In this story, we’re dealing with the Greek pantheon, and it turns out that they’re half-Fae, and as soon as they have enough people that believe
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