Tag: Magic
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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher is not exactly what the title implies. Mona is a young girl, only fourteen, when she finds a dead body in her family’s bakery first thing in the morning. Despite her age and her having immediately reported the body the man in charge of the investigation,…
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The Riddle-Master of Hed is the first book in the Riddle Master trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip. It tells the story of young Morgon, the land ruler of the island of Hed, and a young man who had studied at the college for riddles in Caithnard on the nearby mainland. One day it is revealed…
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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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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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Most books that contain magic have fairly similar styles of magic so it was rather refreshing to see something different in Hard Magic, book one of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia. It tells the story of Jake Sullivan, a former military man turned criminal turned private investigator working for the government. When he is…
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This book is one that is technically a continuation of a series that I had previously thought only had three books and I had finished. It turns out that Dragons of Summer Flame is the fourth book in the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. However, it does not pick up after the…
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Dragons of Spring Dawning is the third and final book in the Dragonlance chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It chronicles the trials of the adventurers as they work on gearing up for the, hopefully, final thrust against the armies of evil dragons and their draconian allies. Laurana works with the remnants of the…
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This next book is a good one but a bit of a weird one. Myrren’s Gift is the first book in The Quickening trilogy by Fiona McIntosh. The book opens on a battlefield where Magnus, King of Morgravia, is fighting alongside close friend Fergys Thirsk, General of the Morgravian Army. Fergys takes a deadly hit…
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Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman is the second story in the Dragonlance Chronicles. It continues the adventures of the group of friends who are trying to find some way to battle the dragons that have come back and are terrorizing their world. Getting caught up in the politics of the…
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The Dragons of Autumn Twilight is the first book in the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It focuses on a group of adventurers who come together to help find holy items and use them to restore the faith in various deities. Many of this group had ventured together before though they had…