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Now married to the cursed Sultan Azak, Princess Inos finally heads to the capital city to plead her case in front of the wardens, as stable boy Rap rushes to meet her and embrace his destiny.
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(Is that like the worst cover you have ever seen? Seriously.) Emperor and Clown is the final installment [...]
Popularity: 45% [?]
Tags: Canadian Literature
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Rap the stableboy joins a merchant crew still intent upon rescuing Queen Inosolan, who is crossing a haunted wasteland in order to appeal her case to the four wardens.
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Perilous Seas is the third book in Dave Duncan’s A Man of His Word series, and again I’m impressed at the skill with which Duncan crafts his [...]
Popularity: 39% [?]
Tags: Canadian Literature
Synopsis:
Harry Potter braces for his final battle with evil Lord Voldemort, knowing that only one of them will survive.
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My biggest criticism of Harry Potter has always been his passivity. In the first few books especially, he spends most of his time being rescued or protected, simply because he’s “The Boy Who Lived.” And [...]
Popularity: 39% [?]
Tags: British Literature
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Inos might be queen of Krasnegar, but she’s been magicked to the other side of the world, and the same magic has sent stable boy Rap, the goblin Little Chicken, and boy thief Thinal to the land of Faery, where Rap discovers that Inos is a pawn in a deadly game between powers greater [...]
Popularity: 36% [?]
Tags: Canadian Literature
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A stableboy begins to exhibit mysterious powers that draw attention that could be dangerous, and he finds himself a prisoner on the goblin waste as the princess he’s sworn to serve comes ever closer to a danger that only he is aware of.
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Magic Casement is a fantastic start to a four book series that I [...]
Popularity: 31% [?]
Tags: Canadian Literature
In the comments thread for Will the Series be Unbroken, Brad & Imani’s insights made me realize that I was thinking of series in a very limited way. I was only considering a series as having the following criteria:
Set in the same world
Recurring characters
A forward-moving story that aims for cohesiveness across multiple books
There is [...]
Popularity: 25% [?]
Tags: On Reading
Synopsis:
As the Storm King’s minions gain power, the forces opposed to his evil influence struggle to fulfill an ancient prophecy–that may, in fact, be their ultimate downfall.
Popularity: 19% [?]
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Popularity: 19% [?]
Tags: American Literature
Synopsis:
War looms ever closer as the dreaded Storm King’s forces grow in power.
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To Green Angel Tower (Part 1) is the continuation of Tad Williams’s Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. Parts 1 and 2 clock in at 800 pages apiece, but I don’t know why they’re one book split into two, unless it’s because trilogies [...]
Popularity: 30% [?]
Tags: American Literature
Why is it that so many kids’ fantasy adventure books can be boiled down to:
“Children find a magical talisman that transports them to a wondrous world where they must fulfill their destiny or be trapped for ever.”
I swear I’ve read this book about a zillion times for work, and today was no exception. Some, [...]
Popularity: 14% [?]
Tags: On Reading
Synopsis:
Young Simon is in the middle of the biggest adventure his land has seen in years, but if he and is friends fail their mission, the wicked Storm King will prevail. Book Two of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn.
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I know it sounds like Lord of the Rings, but it’s all in the details, people. [...]
Popularity: 31% [?]
Tags: American Literature
