When Sorrows Come
Toby and Tybalt are finally getting married.
Of course Toby would be pulled into events vital to continuing peace among the Fae in North America along the way.
Another excellent book in this incredible series.
Category: A-
antlers?
A Killing Frost
Toby has to find her legal father (and former nemesis) before she can marry.
Some truly epic reveals in this excellent continuation of the best urban fantasy series of all time.
statistics?
Hench
Brilliant black comedy about the people who work for supervillains. I hope there are further books set in this world.
spiders?
Calculated Risks
Very enjoyable installment of the Incryptid sequence as cousin Sarah tries to find a way back home from another dimension for her, Antimony and friends. Of course Antimony et. al. don’t remember or trust Sarah at all after the math/magic that took them to this alien place.
cuddles?
Axiom’s End
A first contact sci-fi novel by the insightful video essayist. This is set during Bush 2’s presidency and is full of paranoid conspiracy both among humans and aliens. I enjoyed this a lot and I’m really looking forward to the next book in the series.
cart?
The Lives of Christopher Chant
A story telling the childhood adventures of the boy who would grow up to be Chrestomanci in Charmed Life. Very entertaining kids book with much more of a fantasy adventure focus.
Next in order is Conrad’s Fate which I disliked on first reading and have stalled with for now.
matchbox?
Charmed Life
I started to read the Chrestomanci books in DWJs preferred order.
Eric and Gwendolyn are orphans who are taken to live with their parent’s cousin who happens to be Chrestomanci.
This is an excellent kids fantasy book with the trademark wit and compassion of the author on full display.
rental?
Evvie Drake Starts Over
Linda Holmes is an occasional contributor on one of my favourite sports podcasts. This is a sweet romance about a widow starting to come back to life when she rents a room to a Major League pitcher recovering from an injury.
purple?
This Is How You Lose The Time War
This is – of all things – an epistolary novella where agents of the two sides engaged in a time war start communicating with letters hidden through ever more elaborate means up and down the time stream.
This is just a fantastic piece of very well written Science Fiction. It’s a really engaging read and I highly recommend it to folks who like SF.
rommalb?
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Winner of Best Novel at the inaugural World Fantasy Awards. It tells the story of Sybel, a daughter of wizards, who keeps a menagerie of magical creatures in her high mountain home.
She is removed from the world and knows little of other people and then one day a baby is left with her to keep safe from the King of Eldwold.
How she is changed by that event and the consequences that flow out from that point form a unique kind of fantasy tale.
The distinguishing thing about this book is the quality of the writing. It’s really unlike anything else I’ve ever read in the Fantasy genre. The words flow like a sing-song fairy tale. Somehow retaining the structure of prose but feel of the poetical.
I found it fairly difficult to get into but the last half of the book is incredible.
I really don’t know if it’s going to be everyone’s cup of tea but I suspect I’ll be thinking about it for a long time.