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These books are my Fillory and Further

The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman

August 13, 2020 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

Quentin is ousted from Fillory and finds himself working for money in magic’s seedy underbelly. Thus begins the conclusion of The Magicians trilogy at the start of The Magician’s Land. What starts out as a job involving some not-so-petty theft quickly turns in to another quest to save Fillory. The book itself feels very much like a quest as the trilogy so far as described quests: kind of meandering at the beginning without a lot of direction until every snaps plainly into focus and all of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: cbr12bingo, lev grossman, Series, trilogy

Mobius_Walker's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: cbr12bingo, lev grossman, Series, trilogy ·
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The Fifth Season: The Earth Really is Trying to Shake Us Off

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

January 6, 2020 by reginadelmar 1 Comment

Season after season the Earth is hit with cataclysmic events: volcanic eruptions, massive earthquakes, a mining accident. These events cause shifts in the continent(s) and climate events that alter the earth’s ecology again and again. These events and their aftermath are called Seasons. The Fifth Season is a generic term for an extended winter of more than six months caused by a large scale environmental alteration. There are no vehicles, no internet, no fossil fuels. This is the backdrop for the stories of three women: […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Hugo Award, n.k. jemisin, Speculative Fiction, trilogy

reginadelmar's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Hugo Award, n.k. jemisin, Speculative Fiction, trilogy ·
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Can’t Believe It Took Me This Long To Pick This One Up

The Girl of Fire and Thorn by Rae Carson

July 31, 2019 by Jen K 1 Comment

Bingo Square: And So It Begins I remember reading multiple positive reviews of this years ago, and yet I somehow never quite got around to it.  I think when it originally came out, I was reading YA but I was trying not to overindulge in it, and it wasn’t one that people continued to talk about even years later like the Lainie Taylor novels or Lunar Chronicles or others. And really, this novel was quite good so I am glad I finally added it to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: And So It Begins, cbr11bingo, chosen one, rae carson, the girl of fire and thorns, trilogy

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: And So It Begins, cbr11bingo, chosen one, rae carson, the girl of fire and thorns, trilogy ·
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“That’s what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down”

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

June 3, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

When Jude and Taryn were children, a strange man showed up at their home, claimed their mother was his wife and their older sister Vivienne was his daughter. For the betrayal, the man murdered their parents and took them away to his home: the High Court of Faerie. As daughters of the High King’s top general, Jude and Taryn have been raised very well as part of the gentry, despite their mortal status. This means that while they wear the best clothes, enjoy an education, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, cruel prince, Dark Fantasy, fae, Faerie, Holly Black, trilogy, YA, Young Adult

Genres: Audiobooks, Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, cruel prince, Dark Fantasy, fae, Faerie, Holly Black, trilogy, YA, Young Adult ·
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“They don’t tell you that hurt travels at light-speed too.”

Nyxia by Reintgen, Scott

May 15, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Emmett Atwater is one of ten disadvantaged teens who have been recruited by super-corporation Babel for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: To travel into deep space to newly discovered planet Eden and mine its incredibly versatile and valuable material: Nyxia, an element that has seemingly endless possibilities (it can be manipulated into weapons, into a power source, into smoke, and much more).  Eden is inhabited, and Babel’s first mission there was deadly – the inhabitants of Eden (humanoid aliens) slaughtered most of an Earth crew, except for […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #Science Fiction, deep space, diverse books, nyxia trilogy, scott reintgen, series opener, trilogy, we need diverse books, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:31 · Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #Science Fiction, deep space, diverse books, nyxia trilogy, scott reintgen, series opener, trilogy, we need diverse books, YA, Young Adult ·
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Part 2 of the trilogy is the worst, even in book 3

The Dragon Lords Bad Faith by Jon Hollis

March 23, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The Dragon Lords: Bad Faith is divided into 3 parts, and is itself part 3 of a trilogy. I rather enjoyed part 1 (Fools Gold), hated part 2 (False Idols), and part 3 was kind of meh. It wasn’t as bad as part 2 with no one to root for, and it added some good characterization and a few new characters, but it was also 200 pages too long. The second part of the book is ironically yet appropriately titled “Bad Decisions”, one of which […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, dragons, epic fantasy, gods, jon hollis, the dragon lords bad faith, trilogy

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, dragons, epic fantasy, gods, jon hollis, the dragon lords bad faith, trilogy ·
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