Seraphina Series: Seraphina #1 on July 2012 Pages: 499 Purchase: Amazon | Bookshop Add to Goodreads Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational,… Read more »
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Review: The False Prince, by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Category: YA fantasy Series: Ascendance Trilogy # Book source: Public library THE FALSE PRINCE is the thrilling first book in a brand-new trilogy filled with danger and deceit and hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly to the end.In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the… Read more »
Rae Carson Giveaway at The Midnight Garden blog
The Midnight Garden blog is having a Rae Carson giveaway contest: an ARC of the forthcoming The Crown of Embers (due out on Sept. 18), along with a hardcover copy of the first book in the series, Girl of Fire and Thorn. The former has been on my TBR list,… Read more »
Home from the Sea, by Mercedes Lackey
Home from the Sea Series: Elemental Masters #8 on June 5, 2012 Pages: 311 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Serpent’s Shadow, The Gates of Sleep, Phoenix and Ashes, Steadfast, Elemental Magic:, Blood Red, From a High Tower, A Study in Sable In Edwardian Britain, magic is real…. August 3, 2012 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 0 ★★★½
Heads Up — August 2012
It’s the beginning of August, and I thought I’d give you a preview of what I have planned for the blog over the next month or two. I just finished Home from the Sea, the newest Elemental Masters fantasy from Mercedes Lackey (and one of the books on my summer… Read more »
Shadow of Night, by Deborah Harkness
Shadow of Night Series: All Souls trilogy #2 on July 10, 2012 Pages: 584 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: A Discovery of Witches, The Book of Life IT BEGAN WITH A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Historian Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, and long-lived vampire Matthew… July 31, 2012 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 0 ★★★★★
Magic Under Stone, by Jaclyn Dolamore (review)
Book Description: For star-crossed lovers Nimira and Erris, there can be no happily ever after until Erris is freed from the clockwork form in which his soul is trapped. And so they go in search of the sorcerer Ordorio Valdana, hoping he will know how to grant Erris real life… Read more »
Forthcoming: Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman
I came across this book in my Amazon recommendations a few days ago. The cover intrigued me enough to take a look at the blurb: Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape,… Read more »
TOP TEN BEACH READS
“Top Ten Tuesday” is a weekly blog feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is Top Ten Beach Reads. This is the first time I’ve participated. First a confession: I don’t really like the beach. I don’t like being hot, I sunburn quite easily, and I’m… Read more »
Magic Under Glass, by Jaclyn Dolamore (Review)
Magic Under Glass blends elements of fantasy, steampunk, and the gothic novel: orphan girl swept into a high social milieu, mysterious and romantic sorcerer, hidden wife, enchanted clockwork automaton, missing fairy prince. Dolamore melds all of these into a cohesive, intriguing, but oddly spare whole. I have very mixed feelings… Read more »