This book had the difficulty of being the first book I read after finishing the Tower Lord by Anthony Ryan (a 5 star experience). This is also the sixth book in Juliet Blackwell’s Witchcraft Series. It ended up being a nice quick read that helped me move on from Tower Lord. The series is about Lily Ivory, a witch who has a way with textiles- meaning she can get impressions / vibrations from touching them. There is a nice cast of supporting characters, including a talking pet/familiar – Oscar, […]
“You just have to make a commitment and hope you’re right.”
Had my mother pulled the same stunt Georgie’s did with her step-sister Heather, calling me on my phone rather than just (Rowell sort of does for that word what John Green did for “okay” and I kind of hate her for her it on account of it’s just about half my vocabulary) getting my attention in person (being just downstairs; there’s that word again…), which she’d done once already moments before I’d peeled off the dust jacket (for safe keeping) and started reading, this is how I […]
Harry Dresden Hits it out of the Park Again
Nothing better than a Harry Dresden novel narrated by Jim Marsters. Well, there are better things, but as audio books go, this is the top end. Love that man’s voice. And Dresden Files stories – well – Jim Butcher just keeps hitting them out of the park. Ok so first things first : if you have never read a Harry Dresden book before, well this is probably not where you want to start. There are like…15 of them. Seriously …go get Storm Front. That’s the […]
Old Druids are cool…
This is such a great series. It is the seventh book in The Iron Druid series, so beware spoilers of the first six. Atticus O’Sullivan is a druid who was born thousands of years ago. For a majority of that time, he was the only druid left. He has recently taken trained another druid (Granuaile) and recovered his archdruid from a place where he was frozen in time. In this book, you get first person perspectives from all three druids- and it works. Each one of them are strong enough to carry a […]