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I pity books that follow amazing reads, it’s very hard to be fair to them

February 28, 2016 by melanir Leave a Comment

Wolf Justice by Doranna Durgin is a completely mediocre book, there’s nothing particularly bad but neither is there anything spectacularly good. And reading it right after The Night Circus means that it suffers a bit by comparison. It’s a very quick, light read but it just doesn’t do much to distinguish itself from the bulk of generic fantasy. This is the sequel to Touched by Magic, but only in the sense that it has the same characters and not in the sense that it continues the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Doranna Durgin, epic fantasy, unicorns

melanir's CBR8 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Doranna Durgin, epic fantasy, unicorns ·
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Unicorns and magic and tragedy oh my

February 22, 2016 by melanir 1 Comment

This is a pretty typical mid-90s fantasy. It’s decent, but nothing particularly amazing. Still, there are worse books to spend a few hours with. And the thing that interests me most about the novel is not the actual book, but the publishing history. Reandn is a Wolf in the Kings Keep. As near as I can tell this means he’s a palace guard but more responsible for patrolling the outside of the keep as opposed to the inside (The Hounds) but not too far, because […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Doranna Durgin, fantasy

melanir's CBR8 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Doranna Durgin, fantasy ·
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