This is a sweet little story – Keturah charms her way to live another day by telling Lord Death a story, and those extra days are spent in her town, among the people she’s grown up with. It’s a very generic medieval type town, with fun little characters to meet along the way. I think […]

In this second book of this series, the focus shifts a bit from Princess Alyrra, to her attendant, Rae. Rae ended up in the capital city to see her cousin through her pregnancy, but her cousin and cousin’s husband quickly realize that Rae would make an excellent attendant to the new Princess. The princess ends

Mona is a 14-year old baker, who happens to have a magic gift with bread. This is a story about how even what seems like small magic can save the world, and also that being a hero can really suck. (With a healthy dose of adults may not always be in the position to do

Loved this book. Galadriel is at an international boarding school for young wizards. They’re basically trapped there for four years, and constantly under threat from a whole bunch of nasty, evil beasties, but everyone keeps coming because it’s safer than being out in the real world at that age. Graduation is when you fight your

This book is the story of Xingyin, the forbidden daughter of the moon goddess. She’s only starting to learn of her history when she’s forced to flee the moon to keep her mother safe. She ends up at the Celestial Emperor’s court, companion to the son of the very man that keeps her mother imprisoned

The Great Libraries store the grimoires of Austermeer’s sorcerers. It’s an interesting dynamic – the librarians fear the power of the sorcerers, but everyone knows that it’s the sorcerers’ magic that keeps their country safe from enemies. Only orphans are recruited to be librarians, but even they usually only enter the service of the Libraries

I’m really enjoying these books. And part of what I love is that they’re all different. We travel through several different worlds in this book, culminating in one of the Nonsense worlds – in this case, it’s all made of candy and baked goods. And I distinctly remember having a moment where I thought something

Alice Proserpine has escaped the Hinterland, but she’s still drawn to the other Tales that escaped as well. When some of them are murdered, it looks very much like it could have been her. She has to find the real murderer, and also figure out what happened to Ellery Finch, who may or may not

This was a fun book. Susan is headed to London for art school after turning 18 in the late 80’s. And while she’s really looking forward to art school, she’s also glad to be going, because it may just mean she can finally find her father. What happens instead is she gets tangled up with

I’m going to admit, I’m a little annoyed. I’m running out the clock on my Kindle Unlimited really cheap subscription (I am actually one of those people that’ll keep it to the introductory timeframe and not renew again until another deal comes along). So I figured I’d finish out the Mage Errant series – five