Style: Fiction
Tailored Realities – Brandon Sanderson
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This is a collection of short fiction that Sanderson has written over the decades. Some of it has been seen published in various magazines or online, but some of it is seeing it’s first publishing. All of the stories were good, and a few were great. This spans both fantasy and science fiction. You can
The Girl and the Galdurian – Tim Probert
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Beatrice must find her father, the pig wizard, who has wandered off to fix some seal. The problem is that he’s old and getting more and more forgetful so she’s worried he made the whole thing up and is out in the world lost. Luckily she meets Cad, the last known Galdurian, who matches her
The Poisoned King – Katherine Rundell
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This is the second installment in the Impossible Creatures set of books. Here we find Jacques has escaped the Archipelago to find Christopher because dragons are dying. Christopher must get back in to the magical land without his Grandfather catching him on the way in then figure out what is killing the dragons. He also
Impossible Creatures – Katherine Rundell
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If you think all the magical creatures in the world were myth, you’ve fallen for the same protection magic that the rest of the world has. Christopher however is different. All the animals love him and after a trip to his Grandfather’s he finds out he’s from a line of guardians that guard the portal
Kutath – C.J. Cherryh
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We get the end of the Faded Sun Trilogy, with Kutath and the fate of the mri, Regul and humans in the balance. Though only the mri are bound to this single arid old world of Kutath. Duncan fully inhabits his mri learnings and humans get to see the real face of the Regul.
Shon’jir – C.J. Cherryh
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Back into the Dark the mri go following their holy relic that holds the path back to their real home world. There have been over 80 darks each lasting multiple generations and between each dark there has been service in war, many lasting thousands of years. We now get to reckon with just how old
Kesrith – C.J. Cherryh
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This is the first book in one of my favourites series of all time. For many years I read my tattered paperback copy which contained all three volumes to start each year over the holidays. In book one we meet our characters. The mri are a race of humanoid warriors who were contracted into fighting
All Systems Red – Martha Wells
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I’d heard about this series for a while but didn’t really know what it was about until I watched the Apple TV season and it was excellent there. So I put the book on hold at my library and got it yesterday and it did not disappoint. We follow Murderbot as he realizes he has
The Ascendants – Jazza Brooks
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This is the debut novel from Jazza Brooks, better known for his YouTube art channel, which is where I found this book during his build of the main evil in the book a gidaanawe. We start on a mining planet serving the Edictum who in turn serve the will of the Zenitharch, a mystical force
Among the Burning Flowers – Samantha Shannon
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This is the prequel to both A Day of Fallen Night and Priory of the Orange Tree and while the story is good, I’d say it’s only worth reading if you’ve read both the other books and want to dig more into the history of the world that the author has built. Here we follow
