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Book Review: Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik
This collection of short stories range from Austen/Temeraire crossovers to disturbing fairy tales set during the Black Plague. Novik’s style of writing is sharp, intelligent and on occasion, sardonic and a little sarcastic. I enjoyed most of the stories, and as usual with my other story collection reviews, I’m going to be reviewing the stories…
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Book Review: Between Dragons and Their Wrath by Devin Madson
I have some complicated feelings about this book. On one hand, it’s extremely well written, with some fascinating worldbuilding. On the other hand, the Protagonists are trashfires and I want to strangle them a little bit. (Silver lining: I am very engaged in reading. Lead lining: these people are trashfires.) This book is split between…
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Book Review: Paladin and Necromancer by Adrienne Miller
Paladin and Necromancer is fantasy mystery with haphazard worldbuilding and an interesting premise that could have been handled better. Seven years previous to the story planar rifts began opening up and the “enemy” began pouring through with demonic armies and attacking “humanity.” (There is no mention of other countries or of an alliance of countries…
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Book Review: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
A Sorceress Comes to Call is a reimagining of the fairytale “The Goose Girl.” It is mostly a deconstruction, and we don’t see any geese until the final third of the book. (Yes, I think geese should have been more central to the plot, for reasons.) T. Kingfisher does some interesting things with the fairytale…
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Book Review: Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
I had been looking for this book for a while, and finally tried to put it on hold at my library. Apparently, it had been hiding in the romance section. (You cannot always tell where a librarian will put a fantasy novel. They will end up in the sf/f section, the fiction section or the…
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