Lhind the Spy
10 best books like Lhind the Spy (Sherwood Smith): The Islands of Chaldea, Magic Below Stairs, Winter of Ice and Iron, The Dubious Hills, The Sleeping Life, Jeweled Fire, L'Œil d'Otolep, Lokant, The Summoned Mage, Points of Departure: Liavek Stories
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0007542232 |
Aileen was supposed to grow up magical – just like the other women in her family. Unfortunately, she’s just found out that the magic seems to have skipped a generation… but that’s not her biggest problem right now.
In her world, there are four Islands of Chaldea. The largest and most...
| Author | Caroline Stevermer |
| ISBN | 0803734670 |
Young Frederick is plucked from an orphanage to be a footboy for a wizard named Lord Schofield in Victorian England. Is his uncanny ability to tie perfect knots and render boots spotless a sign of his own magical talent, or the work of Billy Bly, the brownie who has been secretly watching over him since...
| Author | Rachel Neumeier |
| ISBN | 1481448978 |
In this gorgeous, dark fantasy in the spirit of Jacqueline Carey, a princess and a duke must protect the people of their nations when a terrible threat leaves everyone in danger.
With the Mad King of Emmer in the north and the vicious King of Pohorir in the east, Kehara Raehema knows her country...
| Author | Pamela Dean |
| ISBN | 0812523628 |
This is a very peculiar book. The Dubious Hills are a place deliberately set aside from the rest of the fantasy world they are part of by a great spell performed by wizards long ago. There is no traffic to speak of in and out and weird rules govern the workings of the inhabitants' lives. For one, each area of...
Fallon DeVries has a sister who lives only in his mind. Paying the price of magic gone wrong, Aurienne is trapped watching a world she cannot touch, only able to communicate with her brother while he sleeps.
And it's slowly killing him.
Fallon and Auri's best chance of untangling their...
| Author | Sharon Shinn |
| ISBN | 0425277054 |
The national bestselling author of Troubled Waters and Royal Airs returns to her Elemental Blessings series with the story of a young princess who will need more than blessings to survive in a kingdom where everyone will do whatever it takes to claim the throne…
As one of the four princesses...
| Author | Pierre Bottero |
| ISBN | 2700233034 |
De retour à Gwendalavir, Ewilan découvre qu'une méduse aux tentacules mortels tente d'envahir l'Imagination. Alors qu'un mal sourd infecte son organisme, elle se joint à l'expédition qui part vers Valingaï afin de ramener Illian, un jeune garçon aux pouvoirs incroyables, dans sa famille....
| Author | Charlotte E. English |
The long-vanished draykon race has been restored to the Seven Realms, and the mystery of the istore stone is resolved. But Lady Eva Glostrum returns to Glour City with many questions unanswered. Who are the enigmatic sorcerers who woke the draykon? Their powers are beyond anything she has ever known....
Sesskia, talented thief and secret mage, has spent the last ten years traveling the world, searching for ancient books that will teach her magic forbidden in her country. When she is magically transported to another world where magic is not only permitted, but celebrated, she wonders if she ever wants...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 1626815550 |
Two stalwarts of science fiction combine to pen a dazzling set of stories wild and whimsical, thrilling and powerful.
Liavek is a hot, busy trade city, situated on the southern shore of the Sea of Luck at the mouth of the Cat River. In Liavek, magic is based on one’s “birth luck” and the length...
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Mercedes Lackey continues to sparkle in a world with fractured fairytales. There are Happily Ever Afters�with some twists and turns along the way!
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Though she's the seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is better at being the family...
| Author | Dorothy Dunnett |
| ISBN | 0394711637 |
Dr. B. McRannoch is in the Bahamas with her father who has moved there from Scotland because of asthma. She is a savvy and tough young lady who shows much independence of mind and spirit. However, when Sir Bart Edgecombe, a British agent who has been poisoned with arsenic falls ill on his way back from New...
Lauren Dane discovers a doorway to another reality in Cat Creek, North Carolina -- and she crosses over, driven by a strange compulsion she can neither resist nor comprehend. Molly McColl is brought there against her will -- kidnapped from her trailer and carried into a realm that traps her, terrifies...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0886770513 |
Quite serendipitously I ran across this recent review of Horn Crown by Judith Tarr on Tor.com: https://www.tor.com/2017/10/09/coming..., which does a good job of covering the book and with which I'm mostly in agreement.
(view spoiler)[A much better ending, IMO, would have been Gathea...
There's a lot of responsibility involved with being the most powerful wizard in the world, and Magdelene wants nothing to do with any of it. Lazy, lusty, and more likely to be found lying in the sun than casting runes or sacrificing unfortunate goats, she'd really rather avoid dealing with challenges,...
Miss Seeton's Finest Hour
| Author | Hamilton Crane |
| ISBN | 0425170268 |
The year is 1940 and the British have their backs to the wall. Everyone is preparing for the battle that, as Winston Churchill said, would see the “whole fury and might of the enemy turned upon us.” Everyone including the young Miss Emily Seeton, London art teacher, who finds her strangely prophetic...
| Author | E.D. Baker |
| ISBN | 1619638479 |
I wasn’t planning on reading more of Baker’s works, especially not a series that has continuously disappointed me, but I saw Princess between Worlds on the library shelves and decided to pick it up. And…it only reinforced my decision that I’m not a fan of Annie’s story anymore.
I...
