Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
King’s Shield (book 3 of Inda), by Sherwood Smith
Some of you may recall that I reviewed books 1 and 2 on Tuesday, and announced that book 3 had been released. Yes, it took me two days to read all 600 pages of King’s Shield. I am not embarrassed by this at all. I might have finished it, had Ben not plucked it out [...]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
A Countess Below Stairs, by Eva Ibbotson
[Jenny Davidson's The Explosionist was released yesterday. Sorry for forgetting it!] I’d been looking for a good copy of this for a while; someone else had reviewed it (I’ve forgotten whom, unfortunately), and it piqued my interest. Ms. Ibbotson was born in Germany in 1925, but moved to England shortly thereafter. She published her first [...]
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Inda (book 1 of Inda) and The Fox (book 2 of Inda), by Sherwood Smith
[King's Shield, book 3 of Inda, comes out today. Review soon!] I’m normally not a fan of ‘epic’ fantasy (as evidenced by the fact that I could not stomach the works of the late Robert Jordan, although many of my friends quite enjoyed them). Generally an author who makes a globe of her world out [...]