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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis
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If you ever sat around after a dungeons and dragons game and thought "Hey that was so good we should...
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Restless Dolly Maunder
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The Women's Prize-winning and Booker-shortlisted international bestselling author returns with a...
Historical fiction Australia
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Ben Foster recommended Dr. Strangelove (1964) in Movies (curated)
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Her Druid Fantasy (The Amber Druid Series #2)
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HER DRUID FANTASY-- Can her fantasy survive a life-altering change to become her reality? ...
Paranormal Romance
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Twisted Fate
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The world Megan James thought she knew has been slowly unraveling. Her father disappeared and was...
Post Apocalyptic Apocalypse Dystopia Dystopian Zombies
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Alice (12 KP) rated The Ninth Rain in Books
Jul 3, 2018
The Ninth Rain is the first book of a new trilogy from my new go-to author Jen Williams. As in her previous books, Jen Williams creates a world like no other, a world where witches, vampires (of a sort) and giant bats coexist to an extent; a world where gods existed and massive war-beasts once lived and fought, where parasitic beetles are the enemy.
I invite you all to most heartily buy this book, read this book, pause and read it again and again.
Once again Jen Williams has created a trio of characters to love in similar veins to her Copper Cat trilogy, though different in their individual way:
-Noon – a fell-witch from the plains imprisoned in the Winnowry for her crime of being born with power.
-Lady Vincenza ‘Vintage’ de Grazon – A human scholar with a love of all things Jure’lia, a constant hunt for knowledge and cash to splash.
-Tormalin the Oathless – an Eboran mercenary trained in the ways of The House of the Long Night.
Three brilliant characters that each bring their own special flair to this book. Tor is witty and sarcastic, Vintage is much the same but show her eccentricities and has a heart of gold, Noon originally so frightened comes into her own on the journey she shares with Vintage and Tor. Another perfect trio of characters.
The plot for this book resolves around the Jure’lia- or worm-people- who came to Sarn and waged war; the Eighth Rain came from the Eboran God Ygseril, a silvery birth of war-beasts who fought off the Jure’lia and their Behemoths and then passed on themselves. Since the end of the Eighth Rain the war-beasts have been extinct and Ebora started to die.
The book follows Vintage and Tor on their journey through Mushenka and the rest of Sarn in pursuit of knowledge of the Jure’lia- eccentric explorer Vintage’s Poison of choice. They enter the Wild and come across Noon, an escaped fell-witch masquerading as an agent of the Winnowry and from then on their journey becomes a lot less regular and and lot more interesting!
Lots of fire! Lots of action and the sweetest romantic creation I’ve read in a long time – a minor bit of romance that does not detract from the overwhelming fantasy that is this book.
Jen’s world building skills are akin to no other, her cities are ancient but with a modern flair, her enemies disgustingly brilliant and savagely evil, her heroes full of charm and heart. The writing style sucks you in and doesn’t let you go until long after you’ve hit the end of the book and leaves you wanting more.
There are no words strong enough for me to describe how utterly brilliant The Ninth Rain was – not just the story the name comes from but the overall storyline. The characters, plot, balance between good versus evil and everything in between – outstanding.
A great read with heart and soul and epic beasties. I highly recommend this book.
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The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence
Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock
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This expanded and revised edition explores and updates the cultural politics of the Walt Disney...
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International Rugby Union the Illustrated History
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The sport of rugby union has burgeoned from the relaxed amateur games of the 1950s - played for fun...
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Heather (1 KP) rated The Man in the High Castle - Season 1 in TV
Jan 20, 2018
Great for history buff though and theologists and philosophers as this covers both and asks, what if things didn't end well for the USA?
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The Women In The Castle
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Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of...