SJardine
Posts by SJardine.
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Willful Child by Steven Erikson : Review
These are the voyages of the starship, A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new…
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Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files: War Cry : Review
A war is raging between the vampire forces of the Red Court and the White Council — a war that the wizards are losing. So desperate are the Council that they’ve dragooned the…
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Closer to Home by Mercedes Lackey : Review
Mags was once an enslaved orphan living a harsh life in the mines, until the King’s Own Herald discovered his talent and trained him as a spyt. Now a Herald in his own…
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Rise of the King: Companion Codex, II by R.A. Salvatore : Review
In the second book of the Companions Codex, the latest series in the New York Times best-selling saga of dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden, R.A. Salvatore picks up with the fan-favorite storyline of dwarf…
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Shifting Shadows: Stories From the World of Mercy Thompson by Patricia Briggs : Review
Mercy Thompson’s world just got a whole lot bigger… Normally I am not a big fan of anthologies as I find myself unable to enjoy them when one story ends just as it…
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Black Out by Tim Curran : Review
In the midst of a beautiful summer, in a perfectly American suburban middle-class neighborhood, a faraway evil is lurking, waiting to strike the unsuspecting residents. First come the flashing lights, then the heavy…
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Fool’s Assassin by Robin Hobb : Review
FitzChivalry—royal bastard and former king’s assassin—has left his life of intrigue behind. As far as the rest of the world knows, FitzChivalry Farseer is dead and buried. Masquerading as Tom Badgerlock, Fitz is…
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Half a King (Shattered Sea #1) by Joe Abercrombie : Review
“I swore an oath to avenge the death of my father. I may be half a man, but I swore a whole oath.” Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never…
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The House of the Four Winds by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory : Review
The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince’s future is assured, his twelve sisters must find their own fortunes. Disguising herself as Clarence, a sailor, Princess…
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Elderwood Manor by Christopher Fulbright and Angeline Hawkes : Review
Things fall apart—Bruce Davenport knows this all too well. On the heels of his wife’s death, laid-off and penniless with an eviction notice on the door, the only thing left for him and…
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The Exiled by William Meikle : Review
When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step…
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Relic of Death by David Bernstein : Review
When two mob enforcers take care of a hit in the suburban countryside, they stumble onto a seemingly abandoned house. While searching the place, they find a simple leather briefcase full of what…
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Magic City: Recent Spells edited by Paula Guran : Review
Bright lights, big city… magic spells, witchcraft, wizardry, fairies, devilry, and more. Urban living, at least in fantasy fiction, is full of both magical wonder and dark enchantment. Street kids may have supernatural…
