Patricia C Wrede – Cannonball Read 17

Calling on Dragons- In Which the Re-Read Continues to Be Lovely.

Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

February 16, 2023 by NatteringwPride Leave a Comment

A Princess’s work is never done–not even when she becomes a queen! Princess Cimorene is now Queen Cimorene … and she’s faced with her first queenly crisis — the Enchanted Forest is threatened with complete destruction! Those wizards are back — and they’ve become very smart. (Sort of.) They’ve figured out a way to take over the forest once and for all … and what they have planned isn’t pretty. With a little help from Kazul the dragon king, Morwen the witch, Telemain the magician, […]

Searching for Dragons- In Which the Re-read Continues to Totally Hold Up

Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

January 23, 2023 by NatteringwPride Leave a Comment

If you read my previous review of Dealing with Dragons, you’ll know I’ve loved this series for a long time, and recently stumbled across a compilation volume at a used bookstore. So of course I dropped everything to read these books again. Searching for Dragons is the second book in the Enchanted Chronicles series. It’s set about a year after the end of Dealing with Dragons. {SPOILERS FOR DEALING WITH DRAGONS AHEAD} . . . . . . . This book is narrated by Mendenbar, […]

Dealing with Dragons- In Which I Embark on a Re-read and It TOTALLY Holds Up

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

January 23, 2023 by NatteringwPride 2 Comments

First off, everything Patricia C. Wrede has written is a damn delight. I STILL re-read the Sorcery and Ceclia books regularly. But my entry point to her books was the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. So imagine my delight when, while browsing my favorite used book store, I found a collected hardback edition of all four of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles! A responsible person would probably have purchased it, remembered that I’ve read these books countless times, and stayed the course with the other two books I’m […]

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Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Book of Enchantments by Patricia C. Wrede

February 12, 2019 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

I highly recommend this series to adults and children alike. It feels clean, somehow. There is good and wickedness, but everything eventually works out. I would not hesitate to give the main series to my nieces and nephews. There is a focus on manners and politeness and practicality. Everyone can learn lessons from this, and even if they are lessons you’ve learned before, it’s good to be reminded! Dealing with Dragons I read this right before I read Ogre Enchanted, which probably was not good […]

Magic & Manners

January 26, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake 7 Comments

The Cecelia and Kate books, set in an alternate-history Regency England where magic is commonplace, chronicle the lives of two cousins as they find love and foil a dastardly plot (Sorcery and Cecelia), travel the Continent while foiling an even more dastardly plot (The Grand Tour), and wrangle a number of children and dogs while foiling a slightly less dastardly plot (The Mislaid Magician). I adore the first book in this series. It’s an epistolary delight. Wrede and Stevermer wrote the story via “The Letter […]

Jane Austen Meets Harry Potter

April 15, 2015 by ElCicco 13 Comments

Being the Correspondence of two Young Ladies of Quality regarding various Magical Scandals in London and the Country This delightful novel, the first of a series, predates the Harry Potter novels by over 10 years. Wrede and Stevermer wrote and published Sorcery and Cecilia in 1986. I would have been in college at that time, which might explain why I completely missed out on this series, geared toward young readers (early teens-ish). Still, as with HP, a well written story attracts readers of all ages, […]

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