Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. My only prior experience with John Connolly’s work was his novel The Book of Lost Things. That book definitely has some dark overtones, but the stories in Nocturnes make it look full of sweetness and light in comparison. The stories all have some level of creep to them, […]
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And thus continues the story of Keladry of Mindelan as she works to become the first fully acknowledged Lady Knight of Tortall in centuries. More than anything, this book has made me want to go back and read the Alanna books, for parallels between the two, since at this point, no one knew Alanna was
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I’m back to loving Robin McKinley unconditionally again. I’d been a little leery after her last book Dragonhaven, but Chalice has won me back over. The book has definitely overtones of Beauty and the Beast, but isn’t a strict retelling. Mirasol is the new Chalice to the Willowlands, the second most powerful person in the
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Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. Leave it to me to manage to request the second book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels before the first. And to decide to read it for a challenge so that I don’t really have time to send it back and get the actual first book. So, I was
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Read for the RIP III and YA 2008 Reading Challenges. I finally succumbed to all the hype and read Twilight. Per usual with this kind of book, I approached it with a great deal of trepidation, and was rather pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I can’t say this is the best romance
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Read for the RIP III Reading Challenge. One of the things I really enjoyed about Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell was the way that the author wove the fairy aspects of the book into the story in such a way that it came off just as much as a historical fiction book, as much as
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Read for the YA and RIP III Reading Challenges. Blood and Chocolate is the story of Vivian, a teenage werewolf. Her pack was recently forced to flee their home in West Virginia after a fire that caused the death of the pack leader (her father). They’ve moved to the suburbs in Maryland, and both she
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Read for the Mythopoeic Award and TBR 2008 Reading Challenges. I should start this by noting that with the combination of L going back to school, and Sigerson’s recent post on LJ about the classes she’s taking this fall, I was feeling rather wistful about my college days. And then I read Tam Lin, and
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I finally got around to reading the second of Allison Croggon’s Pellinor books. It was a great, quick read, and I’m definitely enjoying the world she’s built. The story picks up directly after Maerad and Cadvan’s escape from the city of Norloch, and follows our heroes through some of the outer lands of Edil-Amarandh. This
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Read for the TBR Reading Challenge Christopher Moore writes a great comic book. He can bring humor to situations usually better left touched only with great gravity and tack. I hate to say it, but I wasn’t feeling that so much with Coyote Blue. The premise is certainly a good one: a Crow Indian named
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