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Sometimes I forget that the prettiest things can still have a bloody history. In the book Blood For Pearls by Peter Von Perle we see exactly how that can be the case. It tells the story of what was known as the Pearl Coast, an island known as Cubagua island and the site of a…
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The Sinner is book three in the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerritsen and with it we move away from the villain first introduced in The Surgeon. It opens with Rizzoli investigating a murder of two nuns in the chapel of the local convent. Dr. Isles is the ME assigned to the case and…
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The Castle In The Weeds by M.w Morganson is a somewhat typical but also somewhat odd tale of growing up. It follows a group of five friends in the small town of Westborough where everything is ruled by Baron Malsham and his fertilizer factory. A place where everything fun and adventurous is outlawed. Having received…
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It is the beginning of the month so it is time for me to discuss some great books I have read. However, I am mixing things up a little bit from now on so instead of discussing great books I have read in the last month I am discussing great books that fit a certain…
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Eragon, book one of The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, set the stage for a great fantasy series. It tells the story of young Eragon, a boy who is only fifteen when the story opens. While hunting in the Spine, a mountain range near the farm where he lives with his uncle and cousin, he…
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A Mage’s Mentor is book one of the Ucksil’s Folly trilogy by Stephen Jarocki. It tells the story of Sinccah, a young woman and trainee mage who crosses the mountains into Ucksland in hopes of finding more information about her mother who had disappeared when she was just a kid. However, in order to do…
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Crystal Line is the third and final book in the Crystal Singer Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey. It picks up the story of Killashandra over a hundred years after the events of the previous book. Killashandra and Lars have been a rather productive and prosperous team of cutters for that time even as Killashandra’s memory continues…
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The Fire Within is the first book in The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris D’Lacey. It tells the story of David, a young college student who rents a room from Elizabeth Pennykettle. Upon moving in he gets drawn into the antics of Liz’s young daughter Lucy who seems determined to protect and rescue the local…
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A world filled with dragons. Dragonflight is the first book in The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. It tells the story of the lead up to the ninth pass of thread fall on Pern. It opens in Ruatha hold where Lessa, daughter and heir to the hold, hides from Fax, the man who…
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Magic can be an extremely tricky business to practice. In Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman, the first prequel to the book Practical Magic, Maria Owens finds this out the hard way. The book opens with an extremely young Maria Owens being taken in by Hannah Owens after finding her abandoned near her rather remote house…
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