Category: fantasy
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Have you ever felt as if everything was just going from bad to worse? That was essentially what was happening for Fitzchivalry Farseer in Royal Assassin, book two of the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb. It opens with Fitzchivalry still recuperating from his near death in the mountain kingdom during Verity and Kettricken’s wedding. As…
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To Shape A Dragon’s Breath is the first book in the Nampeshiweisit series by Moniquill Blackgoose. Anequs is a Masquisit living on Masquapaug island and her people have not seen a native dragon, a Nampeshiwe, for many generations. While out wandering one day near Slipstone Island and the ruins on it she sees a dragon.…
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The Art of Legend is the third and final book in the War Arts Saga by Wesley Chu. It picks up several years after the end of the previous book, The Art of Destiny, with Jian and Taishi now living in Vauzan under assumed names and identities with the rest of their friends. Everything seems…
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Dragons of the Hourglass Mage by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman is the third and final volume of The Lost Chronicles. It focuses almost exclusively on the story of Raistlin Majere during the final days of the War of the Lance. Opening shortly after Raistlin left the ship and abandoned the rest of his group,…
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The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sosuke Natsukawa is the sequel to The Cat Who Saved Books and continues the adventures of Tiger the tabby. This time he is joined by Nanami, a thirteen-year-old who has chronic asthma and tends to spend her time in libraries instead of outdoors. While browsing one day she…
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A Letter From the Lonesome Shore is the second and final book in The Sunken Archive by Sylvie Cathrall. It continues the dual timeline stories from the previous book. E. and Henerey are now in an unknown place where they meet the thirtieth second scholar and the fifteenth first scholar. They explain that E. and…
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The Ragpicker King by Cassandra Clare is the second book in her new series, The Chronicles of Castellane. It picks up not long after the events of the previous book with Lin now having to undergo testing to prove to the other Ashkar that she is the Goddess returned, when even she doesn’t believe it.…
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My Broken Heart is Dead by Kane Jesse Howard is a bit of an odd book. Lynn is an aging landlord, a not very nice one at that, and is working on a few issues with her various properties when she has a heart attack and dies. Instead of staying dead she wakes up months…
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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…
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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…