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I’m so sorry, Malin. I have failed you with my terrible choices.

Kushiel's Chosen (Phedre's Trilogy, #2) by Jacqueline Carey

Kushiel's Avatar (Phedre's Trilogy, #3) by Jacqueline Carey

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This is a joint review for the last two books in this series. I am not rating either of the second two books in this trilogy, and here is a review length treatise on why that is not at all actually a review: Sometimes you make a mistake and then instead of admitting it, you just double down. Or, you know it’s a mistake and you double- and triple down anyway. This is both of those in one instance. I read the first book in […]

Standalone fantasy novels are rare and precious. This one was not bad.

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

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Khai was destined from birth to become the Shadow of the Sun-blessed princess Zaryia. Both born during the same eclipse, Khai was the child who caught the hawk’s feather thrown by the selected priestess, thus confirming that he was the chosen one. Raised by warrior priests deep in the desert, Khai is trained in all the deadly arts of stealth and fighting, and gets his first chance to kill a man at age nine. He hones all his abilities to become the very best Shadow […]

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Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

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Sometimes, the timing just isn’t right for a particular book. Having chosen to start reading Kushiel’s Dart at an incredibly stressful time where work completely took over my life, it took me forever to get through this as I’d constantly find myself having zoned out thinking about a work problem and then struggling to find the thread again. I’m not sure whether that would have happened had I not been so stressed, but as it was Kushiel’s Dart didn’t hook me in the way that […]

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Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

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In 2001 I was an administrative assistant for the managers that oversaw the book buyers at Borders Books (may it rest in peace).  One of the buyers thought I would like Kushiel’s Dart and recommended it.  Once in my hands I couldn’t put it down, reading so fast that on subsequent readings I discovered whole paragraphs that had previously been skipped.  It was completely different from any fantasy I had read before and quickly became one of my most recommended books to anyone who I thought […]

Questioning identity and a prophecy to fullfill

Starless by Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey is an author that delights in taking the known and giving it a twist to make something new.  She burst on to the fantasy scene with the epic Kushiel’s Dart series where she took the trope of a damsel in distress and turned it on it’s head.  Touched by Kushiel, the god of justice and punishment, to experience pleasure in pain Phedre uses her skills as a courtesan and spy to save her realm.  Her next work The Sundering duology asked the question what makes one side […]

“We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.”

Kushiel's Avatar (Kushiel's Legacy #3) by Jacqueline Carey

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In a short time I’ve really become quite devoted to this series. As I’ve said in my earlier reviews of Kushiel’s Avatar‘s predecessors, these books encapsulate everything that I want in a fantasy series. Balanced on the shoulders of an incomparable heroine, the story is both epic and personal. With every installment, Carey takes the opportunity to expand the world building out into foreign countries that are recognizably rooted in real-life analogs. So far we’d seen Scotland, Scandanavia, Italy, and now this book gets into […]



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