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Humans could manage knots easily, and cats could do everything else.

April 9, 2018 by melanir 2 Comments

The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher is the start to a new fantasy series. No other books in this series are out yet, but I’m sure there’s gonna be at least a couple more. This was super fun, but highly forgettable steampunk. I’ll probably pick up the next book when it comes out, but I don’t need it right away. It’s a pretty typical Butcher fantasy, I was very heavily reminded of his Codex Alera books, right down to the insect-ine enemy. The book is […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: cinder spires, gaslamp fantasy, Jim Butcher, steampunk

melanir's CBR10 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: cinder spires, gaslamp fantasy, Jim Butcher, steampunk ·
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Not Enough Industrial Magic

April 9, 2017 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

3.5 stars really. I was expecting a full novel but this is either a novella or a short YA book. The set up is pretty intriguing. In 1850 London, magic exists and those who have the talent are highly sought after. So much so that if/when talent is reported the Royal Society of Esoteric Arts shows up to check things out. IF the report is false, the maker is punished. If it’s accurate, the talented person is taken from their family for training. Once educated […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: brother's ruin, Emma Newman, gaslamp fantasy, industrial magic 1, magic, victorian fiction

CoffeeShopReader's CBR9 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: brother's ruin, Emma Newman, gaslamp fantasy, industrial magic 1, magic, victorian fiction ·
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Dickensian Gaslamp Fantasy

March 17, 2017 by melanir 1 Comment

I enjoyed Emma Newman’s Split World series quite a bit, so I was excited when I heard that she had a new series started. Brother’s Ruin is the start to the series, and the second book will also come out sometime this year, I’m really excited. I enjoyed Brother’s Ruin a lot, and I look forward to the next one. The book is set smack dab in alternate 1850s England, an alternate world where magic users exist. Unfortunately, the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Emma Newman, gaslamp fantasy

melanir's CBR9 Review No:19 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Emma Newman, gaslamp fantasy ·
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I Enjoyed the Ranting a lot more then the book

February 23, 2017 by melanir 2 Comments

And so I pushed through the second book in this trilogy. I am still less than impressed, but because my expectations were so low, this one wasn’t quite as bad as the first. Which means this is proves the theory that lowered expectations make things better. Oh, don’t get me wrong, it’s still terrible it just didn’t disappoint me in addition to being terrible so… yea… For the record, I skimmed a lot, a LOT, of this book. So what’s the plot? Well, Lira’s evil […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Charlie Holmberg, Charlie N. Holmberg, gaslamp fantasy

melanir's CBR9 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Charlie Holmberg, Charlie N. Holmberg, gaslamp fantasy ·
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Everything comes entirely too Easy

January 26, 2017 by melanir 7 Comments

The Paper Magician is a Gaslamp Fantasy that was so boringly mediocre that I want to weep at the wasted potential. The ideas behind the story, and the world building, are all deserving of a far better novel then this one ended up being. You see people can do magic with any kind of man made material, but you have to pick one particular kind of material (paper, or smelted metal, or in a twist-human flesh (because humans are man-made-get it?)) and once you choose […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Charlie N. Holmberg, gaslamp fantasy

melanir's CBR9 Review No:9 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Charlie N. Holmberg, gaslamp fantasy ·
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