Dun Lady's Jess
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| Author | S.M. Stirling |
| ISBN | 0671720473 |
Many years ago I found this book at a flea market and the cover instantly caught my interest. I was dubious as to quality, I mean, the cover is rather cheesy, but I love fantasy, and the idea of a lesbian hero to my then teenage self proved irresistible.
This is one of the few books I've read that has...
| Author | Katya Reimann |
| ISBN | 0812549333 |
Did I like this book? Let me put it to you this way: my AOL address/ screen name is Mervion and my twin sister's is Gaultry, which we chose way back in the mid 90s when we'd just read this book and AOL was still new.
I am completely biased when it comes to this book because I was so starved for a book about...
| Author | Jane Lindskold |
| ISBN | 0380788500 |
In the emergent Nigerian city of Monamona, a scourge once eradicated has resurfaced--a terrible disease reintroduced into the world by a fanatic who may or may not be athanor: Shopona, the one time God of Smallpox. Conquering Aferica with plague is only the first step in this madman's dream of power....
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0886775043 |
part of this anthology: Silverdown's Gold - 5 stars
Trionn the scullion could never pause anywhere for more than a minute without attracting a heap of cats. It did not matter wether his clothes reeked of the midden on those days when he raked out the garbage, or if he was simply sitting, huddled...
| Author | Rosemary Edghill |
| ISBN | 0743435362 |
LIVE THE LEGEND!
Gloria "Glory" McArdle plays Vixen the Slayer in a straight-to-syndication TV show where even the fans say the villain is the better actress. The wizards of Erchanen have been searching all the worlds to find a hero, and Vixen the Slayer is the last name on their list.
The...
| Author | Arthur Slade |
| ISBN | 0385737858 |
A fantastic Steampunk adventure in the deeps
Transforming his appearance and stealing secret documents from the French is all in a day’s work for fourteen-year-old Modo, a British secret agent. But his latest mission—to uncover the underwater mystery of something called the Ictíneo—seems...
| Author | Holly Lisle |
| ISBN | 0671721607 |
The City of the First Folk was an Archaeological Find -- and a Lurking HorrorNever dig up the bones of the past -- because the past never dies, and it resents being buried.... A tiny band of outcast children.... A young girl marked for sacrifice.... An ancient scholar.... A head-hunting mage.... An insane...
| Author | Mary Stanton |
| ISBN | 0671698206 |
While i liked the characters in this book awhole lot more, i felt alot of it was too easy? not believable? It was like, the story is great, alot of potential, but the author didn't want to take the time to lead you there. Also,at the beginning of the book, I like Piper...alot. But by the end, he loses something,...
Twelve Ways create a thousand tangled paths.
Hatched from an egg but unable to shift into dragon form, Jathen is a Moot among the Tazu. His rightful throne is forbidden him because of his transformative handicap, and neither his culture nor his religion offer acceptance of his perceived flaws.
Driven...
| Author | Ellen Jensen Abbott |
| ISBN | 0761459782 |
Abisina had found a home in Watersmeet--the community her father led until he was killed by the evil White Worm. But now, Watersmeet is as divided as the village she fled as an outcast. The land faces a new threat, and an uneasy alliances between the humans and the creatures will have to be formed to survive....
When the peaceful kingdom of Fermicia is enslaved by a power-hungry renegade, its only hope lies in a band of unlikely heroes: two children whose musical abilities allow them to harness the power of Ragesong, and their shape-changing guides.
Jake starts his first day of junior high completely...
| Author | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
A STAR RISES IN THE SOUTH
When the foreigners confronted Sterren in Ethshar of the Spices he was uneasy; when they all but abducted him, taking him to an obscure kingdom in the south, he knew he was in a terrible predicament.
A predicament some might actually find appealing - he was by...
| Author | Midori Snyder |
| ISBN | 0142403482 |
I've been sporadically searching for fantasy that includes peasants for a while now, and I am particularly interested in fantasy with peasant rebellions.
This series is one of the few I've encountered. The protagonists are definitely peasants, as compared to the ones in "Mistborn" which...
Spirelli Paranormal Investigations, Episodes #1- #3
| Author | Kate Baray |
| ISBN | 1522878785 |
Jack Spirelli, paranormal investigator, public debunker of paranormal frauds, and private fixer for the magic-using community has opened his doors. Jack's in a crunch. Since he went pseudo-public with Spirelli Paranormal Investigations, his business has sky-rocketed. Debunking the scum who...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0812511093 |
These 2 novellas work together to help flesh out the Witch World after the "Turning" and builds a wider world view than the picture we see of Estcarp and Escore.
In the first story, written by Andre Norton, "Port of Dead Ships" sets sails to the wind with a young Sulcar woman and many Witch World...
How [Not] to Kiss a Gargoyle
| Author | Elizabeth A. Reeves |
Cindy Eller just wants to get her life back. Instead of focusing her energy on her bakery and her relationship, she keeps getting distracted by the hubbub surrounding the upcoming case-- where she and her family will be put on trial for contact with Faerie.
When Cindy is condemned to have her...
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Oliver Jones was a dull man living a dull life, until one night a stray cat began speaking to him. In English. And that was before things got really strange. Now he is on the run, hunted by an inhuman assassin who will stop at nothing to kill him....
Caledonia Fae Series: Books 1-3 (Caledonia Fae Boxed Set)
Caledonia Fae Books 1 - 3, Blood Faerie, Azuri Fae, and Enemy of the Fae. Readers have left hundreds of Five Star Reviews for the Caledonia Fae series. This set contains nearly 900 pages of India Drummond's bestselling fantasy series. SAVE ~25% off the price of buying them individually.
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| Author | E.L. Young |
| ISBN | 0330446428 |
STORM are . . .
Will Knight: 14. Inventive genius. Creates cutting-edge gadgets. Andrew Minkel: 14. Software millionaire. Founder of STORM. Gaia: 14. Brilliant chemist with a habit of blowing stuff up.
Six scientists were working on Project FIREball. Now five are dead and one is...
Still recovering at a hospital on the north coast of Dakru, Elei is convinced that his part in bringing down the Gultur is over. Rex has infected the other race and their dictatorial system is starting to collapse. Not every Gultur, though, has been affected, and on top of that, inside Elei's body, Rex...
| Author | C. Dale Brittain |
| ISBN | 0671721690 |
This was the weakest of the Daimbert books so far, hovering somewhere between an "okay" and a "like". I think that the book bogged down quite a bit in several places, and the whole part in the Holy Land seemed interminable. I also got to the end and realized that the wizard didn't really advance the plot much...
