The City Changes Its Face
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Intimate, experiential and immersive, The City Changes Its Face explores a passionate love affair...
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Brigid is the daughter of a slave and a chieftain, and she narrowly escapes marriage to a man she doesn’t want, when a goddess hears her prayers. She helps her from this point on, and this is where the blurring between goddess/ paganism and catholicism starts - in a good way.
Brigid builds her sisterhood, cloaks it in religion and makes a safe haven for women in what would have been a brutal time for them. One of my favourite themes, found family, is prominent in this, along with sisterhood and religious politics.
I’m off to find The Morrigan, and I’m hoping that Kim Curran will continue to introduce us to the Irish folklore that I know far too little about.
David McK (3801 KP) rated Soul Music (Discworld, #16; Death, #3) in Books
Jul 1, 2024
Only he could take The Grim Reaper, and turn him into not-so-much a figure of fun, but use him to examine life and mortality and the nature of human existence.
I think there's five such books in which he takes a starring role in the entire Discworld series - those would be (in order) 'Mort', 'Reaper Man', this one, 'Hogfather' and 'Thief of Time'], with all but the first featuring the Death of Rats ("SQUEEK"), and with the latter three also featuring his grand-daughter Susan.
That, thus, makes this the first novel to do so, with plenty of puns and jokes around the music industry here as a new force comes into being on the Discworld: that of "Music with Rocks In".
For my money, this is top-tier Pratchett.
Heart of Dust: Revised Edition (Death's Embrace #1)
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Iole City is in turmoil. Doran Ó Seanáin, leader of the Black Lung Gang, is determined to...
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The Complication (Executive Suite Secrets #2)
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It was just a fling. A bit of fun on the weekends. Definitely not permanent. Not that I...
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Helm
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Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind – a subject of folklore and awe, who has blasted the sublime...
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The Fall [Audiobook]
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She promised not to tell. They made sure she couldn’t… At her surprise 40th birthday party,...
Lying Beside You
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Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven's family was murdered and only he and his brother survived. Cyrus...
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Crimes Past ( Mac Faraday Mystery #13)
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It’s a bittersweet reunion for Mac Faraday when members of his former homicide squad arrive at the...
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