This is the follow up to The Left-Handed Booksellers of London. Susan, Merlin and Vivien are all back. Susan’s well aware of her heritage as the daughter of one of the Ancient Sovereigns, but she’s trying to live as normal a life as possible. Unfortunately, while Vivien and some of the other right handed booksellers […]
The Sinister Booksellers of Bath – Garth Nix Read More »
Genevieve is a fake spiritualist – a trade she learned from her mother. Unfortunately, she’s caught at her game, and because of some other history we’ll eventually be acquainted with, she’s sure to be headed to gallows. But then there’s a miraculous reprieve – the lawyer for a rich estate that has recently suffered a
A Dreadful Splendor – B. R. Myers Read More »
I am so loving this series. Which is making my resolution to wait until the paperback of the third book comes out very hard to stick to. If I didn’t have a ton of other stuff to read, I’m sure I would have run out and bought the hardcover already. El’s a senior now, and
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Leave it to Le Guin to write a young adult book that’s a really moving story of slavery and freedom. This book is the story of Gavir, a slave in one of the households in the city of Etra, part of a confederation of cities that constantly seem to be at war with each other,
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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
The Prophet of Yonwood – Jeanne Duprau Read More »
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
House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones Read More »
Ok. I totally get why these books are the next big thing. There’s a love triangle, but it actually makes sense, so you’re not finding yourself rooting for the guy you know will lose. (Honestly, I don’t know who to root for.) There’s a revolution starting, and that also makes sense. And the heroine is
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins Read More »
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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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
The Mislaid Magician – Patricia A. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer Read More »
Karen Cushman writes really excellent young adult historical fiction, where she really gets inside the head of a young person from some past historical period, and does it in such a way that they don’t feel too modern, but still firmly belong in their own time period. Up until now, what I’d read of hers
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple – Karen Cushman Read More »