Category Archives: Fantasy

REVIEW: The Emperor’s Edge – Lindsay Buroker

Posted on September 5, 2011 by

(self-published e-book 2010) This was another recommendation from Erin at Aelia Reads (she recommended Please Ignore Vera Dietz, which I enjoyed), and which I downloaded for my Kindle along with a short story collection and the sequel. The Emperor’s Edge … Continue reading →

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True Blood Omnibus – Charlaine Harris

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

(Gollancz e-book 2009) I must be one of the few people in Britain not to have a television, and as a result I’ve never seen ‘True Blood’, the television version of Charlaine Harris’s ‘Southern Vampire’ novel series narrated by Sookie … Continue reading →

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Blood Bound – Patricia Briggs

Posted on June 7, 2011 by

(Orbit e-book, 2007) I remarked in my review of the first of this series that, while I enjoyed the book, it wasn’t sufficiently different from other such paranormal fantasy novels as to make it worthwhile reading the rest of the … Continue reading →

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A Song for Arbonne – Guy Gavriel Kay

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

(HarperCollins 2011, originally published 1992) Like most of Kay’s work, A Song for Arbonne is what I’d call ‘historical fantasy’ – taking history of our world and transplanting it into an invented world like ours, but different. This book takes … Continue reading →

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The Pinhoe Egg – Diana Wynne Jones

Posted on May 7, 2011 by

(HarperCollins 2006) This is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite writers, and it’s one I chose to re-read recently as a sort of memorial to Diana Wynne Jones, who died in March. The book will make … Continue reading →

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The Sarantine Mosaic – Guy Gavriel Kay

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

(HarperCollins 2011) Sailing to Sarantium (1998) / Lord of Emperors (2000) I’m not sure why I haven’t read more books by Guy Gavriel Kay. Back when I was a student, a friend lent me all three books of the Fionavar … Continue reading →

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Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

(Hodder 2011) This is the first book in a proposed series, and is subtitled The Road to High Saffron. Jasper Fforde is well-known for his Thursday Next series of literary detection, such as The Eyre Affair, and Something Rotten, and … Continue reading →

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Moon Called – Patricia Briggs

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

(Hachette Digital 2006) Mercy Thompson series, book 1 I’d seen this series recommended to me on Amazon, but it was only when I read a review on the Book Smugglers blog of the latest in the series that I decided … Continue reading →

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Thirteenth Child – Patricia Wrede

Posted on April 24, 2011 by

(Scholastic 2009) I heard about this book through the Book Smugglers’ blog, and, since I’ve loved Patricia Wrede’s other books (the Enchanted Forest books, her short stories, the Mairelon the magician books and her collaborations with Caroline Stevermer), I got … Continue reading →

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Fables 3: Storybook Love – Bill Willingham et alia

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

(Vertigo 2004) Spoilers in this review for events happening in the first and second collections. This third collection of Fables begins with a one-off story about Jack’s experiences during the American Civil War, and how he obtained and used a … Continue reading →

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