Ah! Where did Alex Jennings go? After listening to the same narrator for the first three audiobooks in the series, I was initially jolted to hear a different voice for The Grey King. I thought nobody would do as well with this book as Alex Jennings had been doing. But happily, I soon accepted Richard Mitchley’s voice and as the story unfolded, it made a lot of sense to have a different narrator. Although, Will Stanton was in the previous two books, The Dark is […]
Jane gets to do something
It will be a surprise to nobody that I came up short of my book review goal again. At least this year I have a good excuse. I jumped through a lot of immigration hoops and moved a big truck full of stuff from Canada to the US, all while planning a wedding. It went more or less as planned, but of course everything took more time and work than anticipated. Fortunately, I have a great husband and in-laws to help make the transition to […]
Went downhill, but I don’t regret finishing
The Study series is three books: one that’s great, one that’s decent, and one that kind of lost its way. Those descriptions are in book order. I’ll get more into the issues where it’s appropriate as I’m discussing each book, but I can vaguely say, without spoilers, that the problems are those that pop up frequently in fantasy novels, where there is a lot of questing back and forth chasing after MacGuffins. While stuff does happen in the literal sense on these journeys, in retrospect, […]
The Cat was the Best Part
This has not been a great year for me, bookwise. There haven’t been a whole lot of books I’ve connected with or really loved, and that has made it difficult to write these reviews. Most of my reviews can be summed up as, “It didn’t suck, but neither did it rock.” The Magicians of Caprona is in that category. It’s part of the Chrestomanci series, and I read and enjoyed the first one last month. The Chrestomanci series all take place in the same universe […]
Nooooooooooooooope, nopenopenopenopenope
Ice is a retelling of East of the Sun West of the Moon, a Norwegian Fairy Tale. I love fairytale retellings, and this one had potential. However the misogyny throughout the story just killed it for me. I think there is the hint of a decent story here, which is doubly frustrating. In the interest of clarity, I did not technically read the latter half of the book. I skipped ahead to the end after I raged out at the book. I liked parts of […]
Big or small; an animal familiar is always useful in a quest
Young Rhea is the daughter of a poor family that survives by running a grain mill. Despite the family living and working in the same mill for generations, they are not the owners and are at the mercy of the aristocrats who rule the land. Therefore, the family has no choice but agree to Rhea to become engaged to be married under suspicious circumstances or face the possibility of angering the nobility and being evicted. As you can tell from the title, Rhea is not the […]
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