The Crystal Cave is the first book in The Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart and tells the origins of Merlin. It starts when he is still a child known as Myrddin Emrys living with his mother, Niniane, in Maridunum. Though his mother is a princess and he is noble born Merlin is also a bastard…
The Starless Crown is the first book in the Moonfall series by James Rollins. Nyx is a young blind girl working her way through the tiers at her local school when she finds herself confronted by a bully before narrowly escaping an attack by myr bats that leaves the bully dead and her cured of…
Warbound is the third and final book in The Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia. It opens a few months after the end of the previous book, Spellbound, with Faye now in Europe trying to find the Grimnoir elder that had trained Whisper in hopes of learning more about her unusual abilities. At the same time…
Magyk by Angie Sage is the first book in the Septimus Heap series. The book opens with Silas Heap heading home to help his wife take care of their newborn seventh son, Septimus, only to find a baby girl abandoned in the snow on the way. After he picks the girl up Marcia Overstrand, the…
I recently posted a list of books that are about unusual libraries and it got me thinking about books that take place in unusual bookshops so that is what this list is about. Books that are based around bookshops that are either unusual in and of themselves or bookshops where unusual things happen. Here is…
Resonance Portal Wars by Mike Rawson starts at the beginning of WWII in 1939 with Kammler, a Nazi who is researching the possibilities of Element 115 to create portals. In doing so he opens a portal to Ilyndor, an alternate dimension, where he makes contact with Durgar and Balfur, leaders of a group of Orcs,…
The Midnight Bookshop by Amanda James is definitely one of the more unusual books I have read recently. It starts with an unusual flyer that catches the attention of three individuals and strangers, Adelaide, Jo, and Kye. The flyer is for a nearby store called the Midnight Bookshop. Jo struggles to actually find the store…
Harpist in the Wind is the third and final book in the Riddle-Master trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip and concludes the tale of Morgon and Raederle. It picks up a mere week after the end of the second book with Morgon and Raederle trying to decide what to do next, though they somewhat agree they…
Icefire is book two in the Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris D’lacey and continues the story of David and the Pennykettle dragons. David has a new and rather mysterious geography professor who seems to have an unusual interest in dragons but also an unusual interest in bears and the arctic. As he works on finding…
Eternal OS: Love Never Fails by Rezvan Hatami is about Eliora who has just been hired by Corporatio to help oversee the development of their new android, Eternalus. As Eternalus continues developing and evolving she interacts more and more with Eliora and with Edward, a somewhat reclusive engineer assigned to the project. The more Eliora…
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