Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2) by Seanan McGuire, audiobook narrated by the author Fantasy First published in June 2017 by MacMillan Audio From Goodreads: Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. This is the … Continue reading Book Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
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Sunday Sum-Up
Storms, heat, and things going 'Bang!'. That's the summary of my week. Because I only had one day off for Independence Day on Wednesday, I didn't go anywhere except over to my friends' house for dinner and the lighting of small fireworks. Their neighbors had plenty of larger fireworks, so I don't feel like I … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up
Book Review- Traitor’s Blade
Traitor's Blade (Greatcoats #1) By Sebastien de Castell Fantasy 370 pages First published in March, 2014 From Goodreads: Falcio is the first Cantor of the Greatcoats. Trained in the fighting arts and the laws of Tristia, the Greatcoats are travelling Magisters upholding King’s Law. They are heroes. Or at least they were, until they stood … Continue reading Book Review- Traitor’s Blade
Book Review- Throne of the Crescent Moon
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed Fantasy 274 pages Published in 2012 From Goodreads: The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst … Continue reading Book Review- Throne of the Crescent Moon
Fantasy Book Series: A Personal History, Pt. 2
In part one of this series, Fantasy Book Series: A Personal History, I discussed some of the reasons I've been reluctant to start reading new fantasy series in recent years. Some of it was to do with the length of some series and the long waits between books in others, while some where ruined by over-powered … Continue reading Fantasy Book Series: A Personal History, Pt. 2
Book Review- Six-Gun Snow White
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente Fantasy 153 pages First published in November, 2015 From Goodreads: A New York Times bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild West. Forget the dark, enchanted forest. Picture instead … Continue reading Book Review- Six-Gun Snow White
Book Review- Komarr
Komarr (Vorkosigan Saga, Chronological #11) by Lois McMaster Bujold Science Fiction 384 pages First published in April 1999 From Goodreads: Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years' work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by … Continue reading Book Review- Komarr
Book Review- Mirror Dance
Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold Science Fiction 560 pages Published in 1995 From Goodreads: The dwarfish, fetally-damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new … Continue reading Book Review- Mirror Dance
Book Review- The Warrior's Apprentice
The Warrior's Apprentice Lois McMaster Bujold Narrated by Grover Gardner Science Fiction First Published 1986 From Goodreads: Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges. Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner … Continue reading Book Review- The Warrior's Apprentice
Book Review- The Warrior’s Apprentice
The Warrior's Apprentice Lois McMaster Bujold Narrated by Grover Gardner Science Fiction First Published 1986 From Goodreads: Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges. Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner … Continue reading Book Review- The Warrior’s Apprentice
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