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The City of Lost Fortunes by Bryan Camp

Posted on June 3, 2018 by

Read May 2018 Recommended for fans of Neil Gaiman ★    ★    1/2   The City of Lost Fortunes has an intriguing premise. Set in New Orleans post-Katrina, it’s about the son of a magician finding his way when the local … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Nyx by Kameron Hurley

Posted on April 14, 2018 by

Read  April 2018 Recommended for fans of Bel Dame, unusual fantasy ★    ★   ★   ★  Apocalypse Nyx is a group of five shorter works about Nyx and her team of misfits from Hurley’s Bel Dame series that begins with God’s … Continue reading →

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No Time to Spare by Ursula K. Le Guin. Make time.

Posted on December 3, 2017 by

Read  November 2017 Recommended for people who want to think ★    ★    ★    ★   1/2 Ursula Le Guin is one of my heroes, in as much as I have them. Which is, to say, hardly at all, but her … Continue reading →

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The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch

Posted on April 30, 2017 by

Read April 2017 Recommended for fans of UF police detectives ★    ★    ★   ★    ★     A delightful side adventure in the Peter Grant universe. I found myself chuckling, highlighting as a went, enjoying Grant’s wry observations of the city … Continue reading →

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Chasing Embers by James Bennett

Posted on September 6, 2016 by

Read August 2016 Recommended for fans of purple prose and dragons  ★     ★     1/2 There’s a lot to enjoy here. A dragon. A fast moving plot. A dragon. Realized settings from NYC to London to Berlin to Cairo. Oh, … Continue reading →

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Summerlong by Peter Beagle

Posted on July 9, 2016 by

Read June  2016 Recommended for people who want to feel melancholic  ★     ★     ★     1/2 Peter S. Beagle has long been one of my favorite authors. It is not that I love everything he writes as much … Continue reading →

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Pride’s Spell by Matt Wallace

Posted on June 7, 2016 by

Read June  2016 Recommended for  ★     ★     ★    1/2 Wallace is doing an interesting thing with his urban fantasy series wrapped around the adventures of a catering firm the works with the supernatural. As he states on his … Continue reading →

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The Passenger by Lisa Lutz

Posted on March 2, 2016 by

Read February 2016 Recommended for fans of vague, undefined heroines  ★    ★ Two things attracted me to The Passenger: Lisa Lutz, the author of the daffy, emotionally complicated and entertaining Spellman Files series (review of the first), and the … Continue reading →

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City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett

Posted on January 17, 2016 by

Read January 2016 Recommended for fans of tough-as-nails, supernatural mysteries  ★    ★    ★    ★    1/2  This was not what I expected. Enchanted by City of Stairs (my review), I worked my way backward through some of … Continue reading →

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Owl and the City of Angels by Kristi Charish

Posted on September 9, 2015 by

Read September 2015 Recommended for fans of Kim Harrison  ★    ★    ★      Owl is in trouble. Again. She’s incognito at an archaeological dig in Egypt and can’t escape a leering post-doc student long enough to steal a Medusa … Continue reading →

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