Description: After the Affair of the Clockwork Scarab, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes are eager to help Princess Alix with a new case. Seventeen-year-old Willa Aston is obsessed with spiritual mediums, convinced she is speaking with her mother from beyond the grave. What seems like a case of spiritualist fraud… Read more »
Tag: fantasy
Kat, Incorrigible by Stephanie Burgis (review)
Kat, Incorrigible Series: Kat Incorrigible #1 Pages: 304 Add to Goodreads Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she’s inherited her mother’s magical talents, and despite Stepmama’s stern objections, she’s determined to learn how to use them. But with her eldest sister Elissa’s intended fiancé, the sinister Sir Neville, showing… Read more »
In the Dragon’s Eye: Patrick Rothfuss’s new book
In the Dragon’s Eye is where I share the books I’ve got my acquisitive eye on: the ones I’m really excited about and hope to read and perhaps add to the hoard. I also link to “Waiting On” Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Cover links take you… Read more »
The House of the Four Winds, by Mercedes Lackey (review)
House of Four Winds Series: One Dozen Daughters #1 on August 5, 2014 Add to Goodreads The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince’s future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes. Disguising herself as Clarence, a sailor, Princess Clarice… Read more »
Blood Red, by Mercedes Lackey
Blood Red Series: Elemental Masters #10 on June 3, 2014 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Serpent’s Shadow, The Gates of Sleep, Phoenix and Ashes, Home from the Sea, Steadfast, Elemental Magic:, From a High Tower, A Study in Sable Rosamund is an Earth Master in… August 7, 2014 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 4 ★★★
Cress, by Marissa Meyer (review)
Cress Series: Lunar Chronicles #3 on February 4, 2014 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Cinder, Scarlet In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and… Read more »
Release Day Review: THE BOOK OF LIFE (Deborah Harkness)
The Book of Life Series: All Souls trilogy #3 on July 15, 2014 Pages: 561 Add to Goodreads Also in this series: A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop… Read more »
Cover of Jim Hines’ UNBOUND!
The Unbound cover was released on SFSignal on Thursday. I love it! Can’t wait for the book to come out. Oh, wait, it’s not coming out until January. Darn! Here’s the book blurb: For five hundred years, the Porters have concealed the existence of magic from the world. Now, old… Read more »
Top Ten Books on My Summer TBR List (2014)
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books on My Summer TBR List. There’s a little overlap with my Summer 2014 Vacation Reads post, but to keep it from being a total duplication of that post,… Read more »
Best friends: Animal-human partnerships in SFF
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is free – it’s the blogger’s choice. For this Freebie TTT, I decided to feature my favorite animal-human partnerships in fantasy and science fiction. Many of the “animals” in fantasy novels are… Read more »