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It turns out that sometimes having a background in English literature pays off

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

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Official book description: For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can’t quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob – a young lawyer with an utterly normal life – hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse, and he will be discharged from his duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other.   But then, literary characters start causing trouble in their city, making threats about destroying […]

An Inexplicable Hatred of Raisins

Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

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Score again for shelf-browsing time burning selection from the local library! I had a few minutes to spare, had to stop by the local library to pick something else up, went shelf-browsing and found this: Ink & Sigil. This was fantasy fun at its best, not only because of the characters, mechanics of the magic, and intrigue of the plot, but also because of the reasonably integrated exploration of a real world serious problem, in this case human trafficking. Let’s back up a sec to […]

THOUGHTS

Battle Ground (The Dresden Files, #17) by Jim Butcher

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I am going to do the opposite of what I did for Peace Talks for this book, which is I’m not going to write hardly anything, and only one thing will be under spoiler tags. If you have read the book, you know what that thing is. So, bullet points! I do not think either of these books was really served well by being split in two. I think they should have been one big book, and maybe cut like 100 pages from both. Maybe […]

Clash of destinies

Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

Forest Mage by Robin Hobb

Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb

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** Light spoilers for general plot direction of later books in the series ** Robin Hobb writes pain so well.  I remember reading Shaman’s Crossing and Forest Mage when they first came out and choosing not to buy Renegade’s Magic because I couldn’t face Nevarre’s life getting any worse.  This time around I stayed the course. Nevarre is the second son of a retired soldier who has been elevated to the nobility with a grant of land far from the capital.  This determines Nevarre’s future […]

“All she knows is that she is tired, and he is the place she wants to rest. And that, somehow, she was happy. But it is not love.”

The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab

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I’m not losing my mind over this book, but it was a really engaging, thoughtful read. I really wish it hadn’t been written in present tense, though. Unlike my recent experience with reading The Searcher by Tana French, I noticed that was the POV immediately. I enjoyed the book despite that. I think you should go in to this book as unspoiled as possible, so I’m not going to detail the plot, except for the beginning, which shows us Adeline LaRue, an 18th century French […]



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