Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. The thing that marks my favorite fantasy worlds is an interesting take on their mythology, or founding magical systems. The Inheritance Trilogy (this being the second book) has that in spades. In the first book (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms), we’re introduced to a world where […]
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. Jarred grew up in the desert – raised by his mother, after his father disappeared, leaving only a broken promise to return, and an amulet for Jarred. He’s long wanted to know what became of his father, and so when some of his friends decide
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. This collection of short stories owes much to fairy tales – sometimes obviously, but other times a little less so. Some of my favorites include “The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn”, which has a rather amusing twist on the typical unicorn tale, “Cruel Sisters”,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. The four books in this omnibus are all tales of the land of Dalemark. It’s long been divided into a North and South. When the last king died, the Earls took over the rule of the land. Those in the North are kind to their
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. The Prince of Ombria is dead, leaving only his young son to follow him, and those that love the young prince are not able to keep him from the influence of Domina Pearl, whose malevolent presence has loomed over the House of Greve for centuries.
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. For Mercedes Lackey’s stab at the Arthurian legend, she was inspired by a passage that spoke of three queens named Gwenhwyfar (her sources are in the Afterword, which is interesting reading). When you think about the various stories surrounding Arthur’s queen, the various kidnappings, runnings
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I once tried to describe this series as the Northeast equivalent of the Sookie Stackhouse books – there’s lots of supernatural people right under the nose of the heroine that she had no idea were there until she somewhat accidentally stumbles upon their world, but Jane swears like a sailor, which Sookie would never do.
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This is the very first of the Other Tales of Valdemar series, where Mercedes Lackey opened up the world to other authors, and once I started it, I remembered I had in fact read it before, so it is a reread, though I had no memory of some of the stories, while remembering others. Like
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This is the third book of the Obernewtyn Chronicles, and finds Elspeth Gordie journeying to the capital city of Sutrium, to see if the rebels there will ally themselves with the Misfits of Obernewtyn. Unfortunately, this alliance is not as easy as the Misfits had hoped, and leads to a trip to Sador, where they
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I like Patricia McKillip because of her lovely writing style. She also writes really layered stories, and often just throws you into the action at the very beginning. That means that some of her books are down right confusing, and this one falls into that category. Cyan Dag is a knight of the King of
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