Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Queen of Attolia, by Megan Whalen Turner
Ms. Turner published The Thief (reviewed here) in 1996; in 2000 she published a sequel, this novel. The third one, The King of Attolia, came out in 2006. Apparently it takes her a while to write novels, but considering how many awards she’s won, they’re worth the wait. The Thief was a Newbery Honor book [...]
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
The Light-Bearer’s Daughter (Chronicles of Faerie, book 3), by O. R. Melling
A little research on Amazon told me that there are actually four books in this series and the fourth (and final, bringing back some of our favorite characters) is due out in 2009. So I’m not quite as surprised by the third book in this series. Melling still has degrees in Celtic stuff and whatnot, [...]
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The Summer King (Chronicles of Faerie, book 2), by O. R. Melling
I gave such a lukewarm review to the first book in this series that some may be surprised as to why I’ve gone on and read the next two books in the series. The answer could be that I’m an obsessive completist (which I am), but it’s actually more relevant that I borrowed these three [...]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Personal Demon (Women of the Otherworld, book 8), by Kelley Armstrong
This is the latest entry in the Women of the Otherworld series, and therefore will be my last Kelley Armstrong review for a while. I’m sure some of you are relieved. I’m a bit relieved, to be caught up with the series, but a little sad that I have to wait until November for the [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Private Arrangements, by Sherry Thomas
This is not the usual kind of book that I review on this website, and I feel I must disclose that I won this book in a contest on Dear Author. The condition of the winning is that I read it and promote it somehow on its release date, which is today. The conditions, of [...]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Witch’s Business, by Diana Wynne Jones
[Happy birthday, Mom! -S]
This is actually Diana Wynne Jones’s first book. I only realized that halfway through when I turned the book over and saw a quote from Publishers Weekly trumpeting this fact. It’s barely 200 pages long and, in my edition, has an added bonus of a Reading Group Guide. Nevertheless, it’s quite cute.
Jessica [...]
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Anatopsis, by Chris Abouzeid
The only thing I know about Chris Abouzeid is that he’s male and his last name is a bit awkward to type. (So’s the word ‘awkward’, by the way.) ‘Anatopsis’, as a word, is also unknown to me; I’m having trouble even finding out what the word means in parts. I’ve half a mind to [...]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
No Humans Involved (Women of the Otherworld, Book 7), by Kelley Armstrong
Don’t worry; we’re almost at the end of the series. This review and next Tuesday’s review of the latest book in the series are the last two. I won’t bore you with any more biographical information on Kelley Armstrong; interested readers can pore back through the other reviews to find out anything that might be [...]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Fly by Night, by Frances Hardinge
Frances Hardinge is English, I believe, and this is either her first novel or the first one available in America. Oddly enough, I read a British copy of it. The cover’s a little odd, and so’s the story, for that matter. It’s definitely aimed at a middle-reader audience, though: one with a healthy sense of [...]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Broken (Women of the Otherworld, book 6), by Kelley Armstrong
After reviewing five of her books on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I suspect that at least one of my more pattern-minded readers (OK, well, considering I think I only have two readers, who knows) has figured out that today, being Tuesday, means to expect a review of the sixth book in the Women of the Otherworld [...]