Posted on November 11th, 2009 by !!Not so Evil Twin!!
These books are Awesome. They are fantasy, history and science fiction all in one!!
“A thrilling Celtic Fantasy that wreaks havoc with history.”
The story follows Australian-born Tory when her car breaks down outside a stone circle. Deciding on a whim to sleep inside the circle, Tory wakes fourteen hundred years before. Carrying items such as a CD player [...]
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Posted on August 20th, 2009 by mysteryk
Many book series claim and demonstrate a story structured along a core ‘timeline’ that links all minor details in a chronicle to a coherent ending. K.J. Parker’s ‘engineer trilogy’, in contrast, achieves this literally.
This compelling tale, set within the technologies of 12th Century humanity, leads an elaborate filament between the 1st person viewpoints from fascinating [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2009 by !!Not so Evil Twin!!
In her touching young adult fantasy novel, ‘Finnikin of the Rock’, Melina Marchetta tells the story of a spirited young man as he strives to return home to a kingdom sealed by a curse.
Finnikin, son of Trevanion the Captain of the King’s Guard, is under the tutelage of Sir Topher the King’s First Man, a [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2009 by !!Not so Evil Twin!!
Having read an excerpt including the prologue and part of the first chapter of ‘Once Bitten, Twice Shy’ in the back of ‘Beyond the Shadows’, third book in the ‘Night Angel Trilogy’, by Brent Weeks, I completely enjoyed it, and I did not hesitate to purchase this book. Although not a thick book, it delivered a sufficiently enthralling storyline. [...]
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