The Stolen Goblin Bride (Stolen Brides of the Fae #1)
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When a mortal girl steals a necklace from a Goblin, there will be a price to pay... Esther knows...
The City of Brass: Daevabad Trilogy
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Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18-century Cairo,...
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Paper and Fire (The Great Library #2)
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Let the world burn. With an iron fist, the Great Library controls the knowledge of the world,...
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Machine, Metal, Magic (Mind % Machine #1)
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The galaxy’s a dangerous place. Best not to travel it alone. It’s been over a century since...
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Her Lord of Death
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Enter into an ancient Greek world both harsh and beautiful, a place of gods and magic—and love...
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Descendant of the Crane
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"Deep world-building, magical family secrets, and intricate palace politics—Descendant of the...
The Secret of Drulea Cottage (Betwixt the Sea and Shore #1)
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Briony Fairborn, a midwife in eighteenth-century Scotland, comes from a family shrouded in scandal....
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Servitude (Reagalos #1)
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Lornyc is good at keeping secrets, because secrets can get you killed. Lornyc's forbidden...
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Will (The Books of the Five #2)
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***Continue your journey in Mydren*** "Often the scars that grieve us the most are the ones we...
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David McK (3425 KP) rated Blue Moon Rising (Forest Kingdom #1) in Books
Jun 24, 2022
this was my favourite book.
That was back in the early 90s, back when I was in my tweens and back before I had discovered the likes of Terry Pratchett or Bernard Cornwell.
I then lost track of the author for a good two decades or so, only recently re-discovering him when I happened to chance across the 'GraphicAudio' version of the novel on Audible.
I did wonder what a GraphicAudio meant: simply that it was fully dramatized with a full cast, background music, sound effects etc etc - basically, everything but the actual visual aspect! - instead of only one, maybe two, no more than a handful of people reading the story.
As for that story? Firmly in the fantasy genre - Princes, dragons, unicorns, Princesses, magic, royal politics et al - however I do remember when I first read it all those years ago thinking that I had never come across anything quite like it before. That still holds true to this day: yes, it does have all those familiar elements of a classic Good vs Evil story, but the real delight is in the subverting of expectations, and in the story of Rupert and Julia and the DarkWood / Blue Moon.