Out of Place
Every night Rim dreamed of her parents—what even were parents? She didn’t know, but they were clearly nightmares since they looked just...
Dec 16, 2024
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The Licanius Trilogy, by James Islington
I just waded through three gloriously large books. The Shadow of What Was Lost, An Echo of Things to Come, and The Light of All that...
Nov 1, 2024
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Bones in the Garden
The gate over Alice’s flower garden is still there, and the cheerful little hand-painted sign proclaiming “Welcome All!” is there, too,...
Oct 21, 2024
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Modest Magics
He was aware, judging by the redness of her face and the way the tip of her hat was trembling with suppressed rage, that he should stop....
Aug 16, 2024
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The Black Prism, by Brent Weeks
I’m not sure how this book sat on my To Read list so long without being read, but thankfully, due to the disaster of the library being...
Jun 3, 2024
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The Gatherer, by Kit Trzebunia
I’m excited to review a book by an author I actually know! In the country of Moran there’s a song that only appears when the country of...
Apr 2, 2024
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How To Be Unexceptional When Almost Everybody Else Is A Superhero
On Thursday Rob Smith found out he was a superhero. Whoopee. How fantastic. I suppose you’re already judging me for not being excited,...
Jan 20, 2024
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More Arms Needed
Have you ever tried to change a teleporting baby's diaper? She’d vanish as soon as I got the special transportation-blocking diaper...
Nov 16, 2023
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Do You Know What Good It Does?
Not being a huge fan of the ocean, my mermaids are never of the singing, starry-eyed fork-collecting type.... “By the late Tidal Era, two...
Oct 18, 2023
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Dark Lord of Derkholm, by Diana Wynn Jones
A friend and I recently attended Bilbo Baggins’ 111th birthday party. That’s right. The Party of Special Magnificence itself! We didn’t...
Sep 29, 2023
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Keeper of Enchanted Rooms, by Charlie N. Holmberg
Somebody else has written a book about a sentient house! I tend to enjoy sentient houses; it’s the side effects of being both a...
Sep 2, 2023
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Gift of the Fairies
My mother used to cut my sister’s hair in the garden so she could be seen through the neighbor’s window. Our neighbor was a fairy. “If a...
Jul 16, 2023
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His Majesty's Dragon, Naomi Novik
TL;DR: History--but with dragons! (But seriously, the review is less than 500 words, surely you can manage the time to read it?) Captain...
Jul 1, 2023
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Cursed
Once I served the Emperor. Once, when I was whole, when I was worthy. Once, before I was cursed. It was the day before I was to lose...
May 16, 2023
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The Changeling
Sometimes she would sneak out of her rooms in the early morning, when the fog was lifting off the gardens, and find the door in the far...
Apr 17, 2023
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Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch
I just finished a book titled “Amongst Our Weapons.” And yes, that is a reference to Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition. It’s book 9 of...
Nov 1, 2022
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Tea with a Vodnik
This is not my best work. But I'm already 3 days late, for my self-imposed short-story deadline and I want to get back to working on my...
Aug 19, 2022
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