I was a big fan of the Cadfael TV show when I was younger, so I was interested to see what the stories would be like in literary form. The good bits: Cadfael himself is just as good as Derek…
Medieval mystery: A Morbid Taste for Bones reviewed
Tagged with: benedictine, Cadfael, ellis peters, medieval, mystery, north wales, shrewsbury
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In the bleak prehistoric midwinter: The Reindeer People reviewed
You’ll probably know Megan Lindholm better as Robin Hobb, the celebrated author of the Realms of the Elderlings series, where we met the Farseer family, the Liveship Traders and the inhabitants of the Rainwilds. The Reindeer People swaps the high…
Tagged with: clan of the cave bear, farseer, ice age, jean m auel, kerlew, megan lindholm, prehistoric, realms of the elderlings, reindeer people, Robin Hobb, shaman, wolf's brother
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So how did I do? Summer reading progress update
I know, I know. It has been too long since you’ve had a proper update from me. There I was, cheerily listing my planned reading over Easter, and the next thing you know it’s radio silence and summer is here…
Tagged with: diverse fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy reading list, farseer trilogy, magicians guild, Robin Hobb, sci fi, trudy canavan
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Darkness and doom abound… Ours is The Storm reviewed
I think this wants to be a Grimdark epic fantasy. You can imagine the author having a big wordcloud of terms like “grim”, “dark”, “hopeless”, “dystopian” and “doom” above their desk. And it’s true that they certainly manage to evoke…
Tagged with: ahi'rea, battles, d thourson palmer, grimdark?, lasivar, ours is the storm
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This Easter, I will mostly be reading…
I’ve challenged myself to read 60 books by the end of the year. That’s just over one a week. Work and volunteer projects and family life have all conspired to make March a slow reading month, so I’ve set myself…
Tagged with: a darker shade of magic, boscastle, cardiff speculative fiction book club, cixin liu, cornwall, diving belles, Feminism, goodreads, gypsy, half wild, jean rafferty, jerry spinelli, lucy wood, medicine for the dead, milkweed, motherhood, reading challenge, roma, sally green, Sinti, tbr, tex thompson, the four marys, the three body problem, v e schwab
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Dark magic afoot! The Raven’s Head reviewed
The word “dark” might have been invented for this book! Just look at that cover – it’s like the beginning of Snow White when the queen wishes for a baby as “white as snow, dark as ebony, red as blood“.…
Tagged with: 4 star reviews, book review, genre bending, gothic, historical, horror, karen maitland, scary, supernatural, the raven's head
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Book Review: Walking the Labyrinth
Walking the Labyrith may work for fans of writers like Sarah Addison and Alice Hoffman, who enjoy magical realism, but it wasn’t for me I’m afraid.
Tagged with: allalie family, England, lisa goldstein, molly, molly allalie, the red magician, walking the labyrinth
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