Category: fantasy
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We return to the story of Merlin with The Hollow Hills which is book two in Mary Stewart‘s Arthurian Saga. It picks up directly after the end of the previous book with Merlin handling the immediate aftermath of helping Uther sneak into Tintagel. With Gorlois dead Uther is faced with immense guilt which pushes him…
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I honestly am not quite sure what to make of this book. The Bookshop Below is by Georgia Summers and tells the story of Cassandra. She is a former thief who is currently in hiding and staying low as she was involved in something that went wrong a few months ago as well as having…
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January is by Alix E. Harrow and tells the story of January Scaller. She is a rather lonely young woman who is the ward of the rather wealthy Mr. Locke. Her father works for Mr. Locke by traveling around the world in search of rare and unusual historical objects to…
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The Chronicles of Ynis Aielle by R. A. Salvatore ends with the third and final book, Bastion of Darkness. In the aftermath of the war against Thalasi, Rhiannon and Bryan are working to find and eliminate as many of the talons as possible. However, Rhiannon is now also dealing with a continuing weakness due to…
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The Poppy War is the first book in The Poppy War series by R. F. Kuang and starts the story of Rin, a war orphan from an extremely rural and poor province of the Nikara Empire who aces the Keju, an empire wide assessment, and earns a place at Sinegard. Entering the military academy she…
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H. G. Parry really throws you for a bit of a loop with A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians, book one of The Shadow Histories. The book opens in 1779 with William Pitt and William Wilberforce first becoming friends and working on becoming members of Parliament in the House of Commoners. They become friends…
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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,…