At different points, this reminded me both of Agatha Christie and of the Doctor Who episode “Midnight.” And if that’s not a combination that grabs your attention, I don’t even know what to say to you. The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks follows the passengers on a Trans-Siberian express train that …
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In The Honey Witch by Sydney J. Shields, Marigold is fed up with high society and trying to find love. So when her grandmother unexpectedly visits and asks her to come back to the island of Innisfree with her, to become a witch, Marigold agrees. There’s a catch, though—no witch in their family can be …
You’ll be pleased to know that there are just about enough dragons in this book for me! In I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle, Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (please just call him Robert) has inherited his late father’s job as dragon exterminator for the kingdom. He doesn’t like the job, as …
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T. Kingfisher has done it again! I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In A Sorceress Comes to Call, Cordelia has spent all of …
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In The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang, we flit back and forth between three different time periods, 4 BCE, 1740 CE, and the present day. In the first, a young man is tasked with seducing the emperor but quickly learns that the situation is far more complicated than he expected. In the …
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