Category: Fantasy
With a Golden Sword — Rachel Aaron
To the Bloody End — Rachel Aaron
The Golden Enclaves — Naomi Novik
A Deadly Education — Naomi Novik
The Last Graduate — Naomi Novik
The Years Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009 — Anthology
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Standalones
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss — Kij Johnson
Shoggoths in Bloom — Elizabeth Bear
Glass — Daryl Gregory
The Hiss of Escaping Air — Christopher Golden
Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake — Naomi Novik
We Love Deena — Alice Sola Kim
The Art of Alchemy — Ted Kosmatka
Falling Angel — Eugene Mirabelli
The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross — Margo Lanagan
King Pelles the Sure — Peter S. Beagle
Character Flu — Robert Reed
Gift from a Spring — Delia Sherman
The Region of Unlikeness — Rivka Galchen
Daltharee — Jeffrey Ford
The Ray-Gun: A Love Story — James Alan Gardner
The God of Au — Ann Leckie
The Fantasy Jumper — Will McIntosh
The Magician’s House — Meghan McCarron
Balancing Accounts — James L. Cambias
Suicide Drive — Charlie Anders
The Small Door — Holly Phillips
The Eyes of God — Peter Watts
Firooz and His Brother — Alex Jeffers
Infestation — Garth Nix
A Water Matter — Jay Lake
The Golden Octopus — Beth Bernobich
Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #2: Jack of Diamonds — Erik Amundsen
The Road to Levinshir — Patrick Rothfuss
Fixing Hanover — Jeff VanderMeer
Boojum — Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette
The Difficulties of Evolution — Karen Heuler
Catherine Drewe — Paul Cornell
Silent as Dust — James Maxey
Evil Robot Monkey — Mary Robinette Kowal
If Angels Fight — Richard Bowes
Spiderhorse — Liz Williams
The Tear — Ian McDonald
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Meghan’s Dragon — E. M. Foner
Horseman — Christina Henry
Good Girls Don’t Die — Christina Henry
Cursed – Anthology
All copyright 2020 except stated.
Standalones
Castle Cursed — Jane Yolen
As Red As Blood, As White As Snow — Christina Henry
Troll Bridge — Neil Gaiman – 1993
At That Age — Catriona Ward
Listen — Jen Williams
Henry and the Snakewood Box — M.R. Carey
Skin — James Brogden
Faith & Fred — Maura McHugh
The Black Fairy’s Curse — Karen Joy Fowler – 1997
Wendy, Darling — Christopher Golden – 2014
Fairy Werewolf vs. Vampire Zombie — Charlie Jane Anders – 2011
Look Inside — Michael Marshall Smith – 2013
Little Red — Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple – 2009
New Wine — Angela Slatter
Haza and Ghani — Lilith Saintcrow
Hated — Christopher Fowler – 1995
The Merrie Dancers — Alison Littlewood
Again — Tim Lebbon
The Girl From The Hell — Margo Lanagan
Castle Waking — Jane Yolen
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The Scholar of the Bamboo Flute — Aliette de Bodard
Colours in the Steel — K. J. Parker
Having read K. J. Parker’s “The Seige” trilogy some time ago, i thought i’d go back to the beginning and begin to give his whole back catalogue a good read at.
Colours in the Steel is K. J. Parker’s first book in his first ever triology: “The Fencer”. And guess what, it’s really good.
There’s just so much going on in this book to keep you enthralled and entertained, with lots of great characters that you can really get on board with, and lots of action as well.
If you haven’t read a good castle/walled-city seige story, then i would suggest you give ” The Seige” trilogy a go to start with, because it’s just soooo good. And if you enjoy that, which you’re bound to do, then you’ve got this story waiting in the wings to satisfy your appetite for more. Because one thing is for sure, K. J. Parker does write a really good seige story.
And with all that written i’m going to dive straight into the second book, Belly of the Bow.
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The Girl and the Moon — Mark Lawrence
And so we’re back in the corridor, at Sweet Mercy, where it all began in the original trilogy.
Once again, i felt that dragging tedious feeling i had with the previous books in this trilogy, except this time it wasn’t due to plodding over the ice. This time it mostly came down to this never ending cat and mouse game with Seus and Eular, both of which aren’t very exciting baddies and don’t exactly get one excited. In fact they just continued to disappoint me with the fact that they keep not dying when that’s all i wanted them to do from about 50% in, just so we could get it all over with.
Ok, i have to admit that i read the whole trilogy all the way through, so it couldn’t have been that bad. But, it definitely could have been a lot better and lot lot lot faster paced.
Anyways, it’s all over now and i can go and read some other more exciting things.
Mark’s Page
#fantasy #marklawrence
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn — Mark Lawrence
Overdue — Mark Lawrence
The Book That Broke The World — Mark Lawrence
Returns — Mark Lawrence
Once a Monster — Robert Dinsdale
Saevus Corax Gets Away With Murder — K. J. Parker
Saevus Corax Captures the Castle — K. J. Parker
Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead — K. J. Parker
Ancillary Mercy — Ann Leckie
The final episode in the Imperial Radch Trilogy, and quite a good page turner it was.
We;re still at the space station and planet system but “She” has turned up, and it’s one of those “She’s” that really doesn’t like Breq.
So all kinds of chaos and fun ensues with some great new characters thrown in to spice things up.
I did feel the ending was a bit lacking, as in it didn’t finish the trilogy off neatly, leaving lots of openings for further stories — which is a good thing because there’s four more books in this universe to read next. Hopefully we’ll get to find out what happens next during one of those stories.
So that’s exactly what i’m going to do now, start reading those four stories, beginning with Night’s Slow Poison.
Bye for now.
Ann’s Page
#scifi #annleckie
Eddy’s Little Day — Joseph R. Lallo
If you enjoyed Joseph’s Book of Deacon side story The Adventures of Rustle and Eddy then you’ll love this little story.
Eddy borrows a few spells from his sister and goes off on an adventure to find Rustle, who hasn’t turned up for his latest visit.
Yes, those naughty fairy catchers are at it again, but they didn’t factor Eddy into their accounts.
I really enjoy the Rustle and Eddy stuff, so this was a very welcome sequel which i also really enjoyed.
Bye for now.
Joseph’s Page
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An Ivy Tale — Joseph R. Lallo
A nice little side story for all you fans of Joseph’s Book of Deacon series.
Ivy goes on a wander to cheer herself up when she gets a bored after saving the world and becoming an ambassador. One day, during her wander, she walks into an inn where Malthropes aren’t exactly made welcome.
A sweet little story.
Bye for now.
Joseph’s Page