Tag: Magic
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The Witch’s Daughter is the second book in The Chronicles of Ynis Aielle by R. A. Salvatore and picks up thirty years after the first book. Del and Brielle’s daughter Rhiannon has just turned twenty and wishes to explore the world outside of Avalon. With her mother’s assent and the company of the rangers Belexus…
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Dragons of the Highlord Skies is the second volume of the Lost Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. It picks up shortly after the events of Dragons of the Dwarven Depths and partially overlaps Dragons of Winter Night. Focusing on Kit, the story explores her finding out what is going on with her former…
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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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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…
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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,…