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Pemberley: Mr. Darcy’s Dragon – Maria Grace

At Home, Reading / Megan

This was an interesting twist on Pride and Prejudice. Only some people can hear dragons, and in the past, the nobility of England made a treaty with them, where some dragons would have keepers appointed from the nobility, and would be attached as caretakers to their estates. So Longbourn is a dragon, and Elizabeth and […]

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The Silver Bullets of Annie Oakley – Mercedes Lackey

At Home, Reading / Megan

We’ve got another Elemental Masters comes to America book, but in this case, America is coming to Europe. Annie Oakley and her husband are traveling with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, and they’ve come to Germany. It’s winter now, and they’ve settled down in Strasburg for winter quarters. While they’re there, Buffalo Bill decides to

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The Serpent’s Egg – Caroline Stevermer

At Home, Reading / Megan

This book is thirty five years old (with a nice, new cover) and in hindsight, that’s absolutely obvious when reading it. The plot is very quick, very fun, and very fast. I think today, you would have gotten a lot more detail about the various intrigues. Basically, the evil Duke of Tilbury is out to

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A Coup of Tea – Casey Blair

At Home, Reading / Megan

Miyara is a princess, on the eve of the day she’s supposed to dedicate herself in service to her people. She’s the fourth daughter, so her older sisters have taken their own paths, and she’s at a loss for what to do herself. So she chooses to leave, which exiles herself from her family. So

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Dragonshadow – Elle Katharine White

At Home, Reading / Megan

This is the second book in a series that started as a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, with dragons. Alaistair and Aliza are now married, and the story goes off into original territory. There’s some good world building here – quite a bit of interesting mythology, with a twist, comes in. But the story can

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A Spindle Splintered – Alix E. Harrow

At Home, Reading / Megan

This is a lovely interpretation of “Sleeping Beauty”, where our main character suffers from a terminal illness, and it’s the suffocation of her parents’ love and trying to help her that’s ruled her life. She’s an adult now, on borrowed time, waiting for her figurative spinning wheel to appear, when instead, she’s sucked into another

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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy – Megan Bannen

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Hart and Mercy have hated each other since they first met. Hart is a marshal on the border of the town where Mercy manages her family’s business. They’re undertakers, and Hart often has to bring what are essentially zombies back to Birdsall and Son when he catches them roaming about. It turns out, they’re both

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Hounded – Kevin Hearne

At Home, Reading / Megan

Here’s another book that was refreshingly different. This is an urban fantasy with a male lead. I really enjoyed its take on the various pantheons of the world. Atticus is Irish, so his pantheon is represented, but every pantheon is actually there to some degree. Atticus is the last Druid. Due to a deal with

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Unnatural Magic – C. M. Waggoner

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I really enjoyed this book – it’s about people outside of the regular magical structure of this particular world being able to find a place where they can wield power. Onna is obviously magically talented, and is educated in it as much as her small town can manage. When she applies to the country’s magical

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Symphony for a Deadly Throne – E. J. Mellow

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I preordered this book – I’d enjoyed the first two books in the series enough that I knew I wanted to read this sooner rather than later. I did enjoy it, but, it’s my least favorite of the three. This is the eldest sister – Arabessa’s – story. They are the daughters of the Thief

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