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Tough Traveling: True Love
Posted on February 12, 2015 26 Comments
The Thursday feature “Tough Traveling” is the brainchild of Nathan of Review Barn, who has come up with the excellent idea of making a new list each week based on the most common tropes in fantasy, as seen in The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynn Jones. Nathan has invited anyone who is interested to […]
Tough Traveling: Curses!
Posted on October 2, 2014 16 Comments
The Thursday feature “Tough Traveling” is the brainchild of Nathan ofReview Barn, who has come up with the excellent idea of making a new list each week based on the most common tropes in fantasy, as seen in The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynn Jones. Nathan has invited anyone who is interested to […]
Character Appreciation Post: Ista and The Bastard
Posted on August 10, 2014 3 Comments
In The Curse of Chalion, Ista was the god-touched mother of the young Royina, who had spent much of her years trapped within the madness of sainthood. Though others wrote her mind-fogged babbling off as unfortunate insanity, Cazeril, the main protagonist, recognized that there was something more in her perceptions. Freed from the curse and from sainthood, though […]
Posted on July 3, 2014 Leave a Comment
“Instructing you, sweet Ista, would be like teaching a falcon to walk up to its prey. It might with great effort be done, but one would end with a very footsore and cranky bird, and a tedious wait for dinner. With a wingspan like yours, it’s ever so much easier just to shake you from my wrist […]
Book Review: The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Posted on June 3, 2013 Leave a Comment
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold A shadowy curse hangs over the royal family of Chalion and it falls to a broken man to save them from the curse and the political viper pit that threatens to bring them down. I fell in love with Cazaril not long after he was introduced. When […]
Book Review: Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
Posted on April 18, 2013 Leave a Comment
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold Genre: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Biopunk Series: Book 4 of the Vorkosigan Saga Author’s Information: Website Tiara’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars Leo Graf a talented engineer who finds himself pulled from his current station to a habitat operating in a system on the fringes of intergalactic law. Leo is […]
Book Review: The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
Posted on February 16, 2013 2 Comments
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold Genre: Fantasy Series: Book 1 of Chalion Publisher: Voyager (December 1, 2000) Author’s Information: Website Tiara’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars First, I should say that if you enjoy a fantasy story full of action, then, this may not be the story for you. There’s more talk […]
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