Category: fantasy
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A Letter to the Luminous Deep is the first book in The Sunken Archive by Sylvie Cathrall and it was not what I was expecting. The book starts with two people who know of each other but have never actually met. Sophy Cidnorghe is a former scholar and the sister of E. Cidnosin who had…
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Sword Catcher is the first book in the Chronicles of Castellane by Cassandra Clare. Kel is a young man who serves Prince Conor of Castellane as his swordcatcher. This means that he is part companion, part bodyguard and body double in order to protect Conor to the best of his ability. Lin is a young…
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The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson. It is an intriguing mix of science fiction and fantasy that ended up being hilarious. The story opens with a man waking up in an unknown location with absolutely no memory. In fact the only thing he seems to have is fragments of a…
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Echoes of the Fourth Magic is the first book in the Chronicles of Ynis Aielle by R. A. Salvatore and is a little different than his other work. It tells the story of a ship that ends up in a storm in the Bermuda triangle. Next thing the sailors know they seem to be trapped…
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Having dealt with werewolves this series continues by dealing with ghosts. Grave Peril is the third book in The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher and it continues Dresden’s adventures in dealing with things that go bump in the night. It opens on Dresden and his friend Michael hunting a ghost that is haunting the nursery…
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The Girl With Ghost Eyes by M. H. Boroson is the first book in the Daoshi Chronicles. It tells the story of Li-lin, a young woman who is a Daoshi priestess in Chinatown towards the end of the nineteenth century. She works with her father, another high-ranking Daoshi priest, where she unintentionally gets caught up…
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Dragons of the Dwarven Depths is volume one of the Lost Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It is a companion series to the Dragonlance Chronicles and takes place just after the events of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Having killed the dragonlord Verminaard the heroes are working to find a place for the refugees…
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The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman is the first book in the series of the same name. Irene works in the library as a librarian whose job is to travel to alternate realities in order to find rare and/or one of a kind works of literature, many of which are found in only one alternate…
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Heir of Sea and Fire is the second book in the Riddle Master Trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip and continues the story started in the first book. It opens almost a year after the end of the previous book but focuses on Raederle, the young woman who was to be betrothed to Morgon, and her…
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In Spellbound, book two of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia, the adventure continues for Jake Sullivan and Faye Vierra as things get rather dark. It opens with an attack on the new president, FDR, by an active magic user but this is also an attack that works to frame the Grimnoir society and thus…