Tag Archives: favorite

OATHBRINGER!!!!!!!

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Thistle

Stand by. Binge reading in progress. Blog-posting to resume after Thanksgiving. Have fun and be safe over the holidays, peeps!

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The Empty Grave, by Jonathan Stroud (audio)

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Thistle

As this is the fifth book in the Lockwood & Co series, any description would necessarily give away series spoilers, and I don’t want to do that. Instead I’ll do my best to sing this book’s praises – and the … Continue reading →

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A Face Like Glass, by Frances Hardinge

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Thistle

The underground city of Caverna is known for two things: first for the magical delicacies they create (wines that erase specific memories, perfume that convinces you to trust the wearer, etc), and second for their doll-like faces. Babies born in … Continue reading →

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Strange the Dreamer, by Laini Taylor

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Thistle

From Goodreads: The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost … Continue reading →

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Callback: the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Thistle

Back in 2012, I first read Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. I fell in love with the book and gobbled both it and the sequel up over the next couple months. I didn’t get to read the … Continue reading →

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Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho (audio)

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Thistle

From GoodReads: At his wit’s end, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave, eminently proficient magician, and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers—one of the most respected organizations throughout all of Britain—ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover why England’s magical stocks … Continue reading →

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The Creeping Shadow, by Jonathan Stroud (audio)

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Thistle

Book 4 in the Lockwood & Co series. This review will have minor spoilers from previous books but no spoilers from this volume. So this book begins a few months after the abrupt end of The Hollow Boy. Lucy is … Continue reading →

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Bellweather Rhapsody, by Kate Racculia

Posted on August 4, 2016 by Thistle

A dilapidated hotel. A November weekend. A pair of elfin-looking twins. A sociopath music director. A missing girl. A volatile conductor. An a cappella boy band. A legendary murder-suicide celebrating its fifteenth anniversary. A blizzard that traps everyone inside. This … Continue reading →

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The Sin Eater’s Daughter, by Melinda Salisbury (audio)

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Thistle

Twylla is deadly. As the embodied daughter of the gods, her skin is poisonous to anyone she touches, save the royal family, who are protected by the gods. Though Twylla hates her role and fate, she accepts it, until a … Continue reading →

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The Raven King, by Maggie Stiefvater

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Thistle

1. Book 4 of the Raven Cycle. 2. There will be no spoilers at all in this review (book or series). 3. I honestly considered simply writing the word LOVE!!!!! on this review and being done with it. 4. I … Continue reading →

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