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Penric to the Rescue

Penric's Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold

July 18, 2022 by sabian30 1 Comment

One of my favorite authors, Lois McMaster Bujold, has written a series of novellas about Penric and Desdemona, a wizard and a demon who help people needing the services of wizards and demons. Penric, tall, handsome, and charming, is just what a young widow named Nikys needs when her brother, General Adelis is accused of treason and blinded by boiling vinegar. Penric, an secret sorcerer and physician, posed as a simple courier when he provided the documents showing Adelis had sought employment in a neighboring […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Hero, lois mcmaster bujold, magician, Penric, strong female characters

sabian30's CBR14 Review No:22 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Hero, lois mcmaster bujold, magician, Penric, strong female characters ·
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If Mr Incredible were a bad guy in a past life

June 24, 2017 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Imagine a world that combines elements of The Incredibles, Discworld, and Marvel. That’s what you get in Forging Hephaestus (Villains’ Code Book 1). I really enjoyed this combination, and I really, really hope the series continues for at least a few more volumes. The basic premise is that the world contains meta-humans, those with special powers, and such people often become either heroes and join the Alliance of Heroic Champions, or a villain who joins the guild of villains.  The organization and bureaucratization of crime […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: action, Drew Hayes, Forging Hephaestus, Hero, heroine, villainesses, villains

CoffeeShopReader's CBR9 Review No:44 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: action, Drew Hayes, Forging Hephaestus, Hero, heroine, villainesses, villains ·
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A fun adventure where the woodcutter heroine rescues the young man in distress

March 27, 2014 by Malin 4 Comments

Saturday Woodcutter believes she is the only one of her many siblings without any magic, until the day when she throws a mirror out of the window in a rage, and conjures an ocean in the backyard. Because one of her brothers has run away and Saturday believes her ocean may have drowned him, she grabs her trusty axe (which has decided to change shape into a sword for the time being) and sets sail on her sister Thursday’s pirate ship in order to try […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: #CBR6, Alethea Kontis, fairy tale retelling, fantasy, Hero, magic, Malin, Woodcutter, Young Adult

Malin's CBR6 Review No:24 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: #CBR6, Alethea Kontis, fairy tale retelling, fantasy, Hero, magic, Malin, Woodcutter, Young Adult ·
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  • ElCicco
    on So many magical bastards!
    I expect to be devastated. I still haven’t gotten over Verity
  • BlackRaven
    on A must read for anyone who doesn’t want their cat’s soul poisoned by the liberal media
    My friends cat is the leader (or at least second in command) in a S@tanism related cult..... And yes, these are...
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    on A must read for anyone who doesn’t want their cat’s soul poisoned by the liberal media
    my car knows now
  • narfna
    on So many magical bastards!
    Godspeed in your journey to read the last book. It wrecked me.
  • Emmalita
    on “It’s like there’s something about me that just encourages people to want me dead. Probably my sparkling personality.”
    I’m sorry that the arc opportunity fell through. That publicist just disappeared.
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