Tag: Historical Fantasy
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Book Review: The Springborn
by Carrie Anne Noble publisher’s synopsis An 1880’s coal town is no place for a girl with antlers. Once upon a winter’s day, a childless miner and his wife find baby Sabella in a mysterious basket. When she suddenly grows a pair of silvery gray antlers, they hide her from the world in embarrassment and…
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Book Review: Breath of Bones
by Tricia and Nathan Goyer publisher’s synopsis When darkness falls, a new guardian emerges. Kateřina Dubová has always aspired to walk in her father’s footsteps as a respected journalist, and the Second World War presents a unique opportunity for her to prove her worth to the world. A tip about an assassination attempt on a…
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Book Review: Wayfarer
by K. M. Weiland publisher’s synopsis Think being a superhero is hard? Try being the first one. Will’s life is a proper muddle—and all because he was “accidentally” inflicted with the ability to run faster and leap higher than any human ever. One minute he’s a blacksmith’s apprentice trying to save his master from debtor’s…
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Book Review: Egg & Spoon
by Gregory Maguire publisher’s synopsis Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there…
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Book Review: The Paper Magician
by Charlie N. Holmberg publisher’s synopsis Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded…
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Book Review: Spellbreaker
by Charlie N. Holmberg publisher’s synopsis The orphaned Elsie Camden learned as a girl that there were two kinds of wizards in the world: those who pay for the power to cast spells and those, like her, born with the ability to break them. But as an unlicensed magic user, her gift is a crime.…
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Book Review: Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
by Charlie N. Holmberg publisher’s synopsis Rhode Island, 1846. Estranged from his family, writer Merritt Fernsby is surprised when he inherits a remote estate in the Narragansett Bay. Though the property has been uninhabited for more than a century, Merritt is ready to call it home—until he realizes he has no choice. With its doors…
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Book Review: Fawkes
by Nadine Brandes publisher’s synopsis Thomas Fawkes has longed for the day when he will receive his color mask. He is certain that he will bond with the color Gray and finally be able to drive the Stone Plague out of his eye. Sure, no one else has ever managed to color speak the Stone…
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Book Review: Splinters of Scarlet
by Emily Bain Murphy Marit hates using her magic. She’s seen the cost of using too much magic–it creates a buildup of the Firn. That’s what killed her sister. And that’s why Marit is reluctant to use it except when helping Eve, a fellow orphan who’s like a little sister to Marit. When Eve is…
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Book Review: Wrath of the Storm
by Jennifer A. Nielsen Nic Calva has two of the three magical amulets of the Roman gods, and he knows where the stone that can become the Jupiter Stone, the last and most powerful of the amulets, is hidden. And that means that Rome, the Praetors, and the gods aren’t done with him yet. Nic…
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