First of all, don’t read this unless you’ve read the first two books in the series — The Magicians and The Magician King. I read them both in June of 2012, and I wish I had reread them before tackling the final book, since it was hard to remember a lot of the story (it’s pretty convoluted, involving a lot of characters and twisty turns of plot). But I enjoyed the final book so much that I think I’ll just reread the whole series, start to finish, as soon […]
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Page count: 512, time taken: 4 hours Driven by visions, Meg Corbyn flees her captors and ends up stumbling into a job as a Human Liaison in an Others enclave in Lakeside. She quickly finds acceptance from the shape-shifting inhabitants, except from Simon Wolfgard, leader of the Courtyard, and his father. Fortunately, Meg manages to help Simon’s nephew through the worst of his severe PTSD, and Simon quickly becomes a fan. Which is useful when Meg’s past catches up to her. Good things about […]
One Final Installment, Out With a Bang
The concluding volume of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s comic series Locke & Key is full of carnage, and I didn’t expect anything different. There is resolution, and yet so many more mysteries left to be explored in this world and with all the magical keys and the history of key house. The only truly bad thing about this book was that it had to end, after everything came to a head and we were left to see where the resulting pieces would end up. […]
A Decent Urban Fantasy
So after a very stressful day (a missing shipment of a case of wine, don’t ask, all that matters was thankfully recovered!) I am finally getting around to this review. This was my bookclub’s pick for the month. I read Tithe by Holly Black, gosh when it came out?, all I know was it was a long time ago, but I remember liking it. I don’t know if I’ve read any of her others, but since I still had okay feelings about Tithe I was […]