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Yes, the fact that it’s the first book in a series is important. Otherwise, if you read through and finish it like I did without knowing that fact, you may feel inclined to be annoyed at the book for having too much back story, character building and world building and not enough plot.
Because that is what a good six sevenths of this book is, world and character building. Okay, the AU colonial America setting (with magic!) is shiny and definitely interesting and the characters aren’t half cool either but I wouldn’t have been fretting over whether plot was going to show up in the next couple of pages if the ‘book one’ had been plastered a bit more over the book. (It only appears on the spine and the title page, not on the cover or blurb.)
If it weren’t for the fact the writing was very comfortable to read (and feels like home) and that the magic system was very interesting, I may have chucked the book once I had gotten halfway through. Which would’ve been only a couple of hours after I picked it up, because reading it was very fun and the pages flew past. (Although some of the flying was in anticipation of plot…)

And so, I’ve done my whinging about there wasn’t enough plot and the pacing wasn’t what I was expecting and I can talk a bit more about what it’s about. So, possible spoilers ahead, especially for those who want to read this.

( Not that there's much of them... )

That shouldcover it. No, seriously, most of the book is world building and if I did go any further, it'd be boring and way too spoilery.
It was a fun read, except keep in mind it’s the first book in a series and the pacing won’t disappoint you too much.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: about to go to bed

This is one hell of a weird novelisation. And another one that should probably be shelved in the “not canon” part of Torchwood media. Because, basically, it’s Adam 1.0. There’s a mysterious sixth member of the team who apparently has been there since forever and we play along with that until it’s revealed that he’s actually an alien.
Except there’s not retcon at the end and there isn’t any Jack!angst or goggleboy!flashbacks. Except there is a temporary split up between Gwen and Rhys and kind of makes it seem she really sleeps around in the first season if you do shelve this under “canon Torchwood media”.
Also, there were several odd phrasings that totally threw me off. Or maybe it was poor characterisation. IDK, especially as there was one scene where Ianto was playing basketball with Owen. Which is pretty blink, what? As is Tosh accompanying Jack on most of the excursions.

Not to speak of the other plot threads either. I know a lot of shows like using rather contrived Chekov’s guns, but… the two big alien tech threads have very little to do with the greater plot aside from ‘oh noes, the team is in danger!’. Then the plot thread that did relate to the main one was rather weak. Although it was kind of fun pointing and shouting loudly when very obvious hints were dropped.
But er, anyway, comments on little bits that happened in the book which I haven’t already mentioned.

( It’s set pre-Cyberwoman, so Jack’s all srz, which is kind of painful, yet hilarious. )

Current Mood: pouty

So… I’ve finished it. And I would do my usual thing, commenting on interesting bits and then giving a more general squee, BUT I’VE PRETTY MUCH MARKED EVERY OTHER PAGE.
Seriously, this book provoked so much squee from me. The brothers were brothers and were cute and actually got along and resolved all that tension between them. It’s a little sad that I’m so deliriously happy at them having a healthy relationship, but it’s so squishy and good. Even though the downside is that I’m shipping them together again, they’re HAPPY.

And yes, I thought I had gotten over shipping Felix/Mildmay because I could handle siblings being cute together but then they started SMILING at each other and joking. I just want that to continue but with things like hugs as well. Of course, the no-touchy rule is there, but they’re just so cute and I’m not sure if I’m only wanting fluffy cute sibling stuff from the pairing or something like a de facto pairing and I so blame FMA in part for being so confused over Mildmay and Felix because the only way I can get fluffy Ed/Al!brothers stuff is by turning to Elricest because apparently siblings don’t hug each other unless they’re having sex.
YES, I am confused and in conflict over this, just like I am over another handful of ‘ships where there is no-touchy but they work so well together~ *cries in frustration*

Shipping frustrations aside, there was other cuteness as well, such as Mildmay learning how to read (link is to Sarah Monette’s 2009 International pixel-stained technopeasant day entry) and Corbie’s crush on Felix, which is all kinds of cute but kind of brain-hurty when it’s revealed she has sex with Mildmay because she couldn’t have Felix. I am also very amused at the glimpses of the bizarre ménage a trois (in the strictest sense of the term) that occupied Felix’s rooms. We had Gideon taking care of Mildmay when he’s sick and in general those two being nicer to each other than either of them were with Felix, despite their relationships with him.
And here is where I should just get on with the comments…

( There are a lot of them. No, seriously, there's a lot of them. )

So, overall, very cute and fluffy and I love this book so much more than the other three, except they’re all good and I love those ones too, so it’s kind of a moot point.
And why yes, I am finally posting this after having finished Corambis over two months ago.

Current Mood: squee-y

Firstly, have a link about how commuters read on trains. It is not why commuters do not read as the title states, but it is kind of neat to read through. And wonder why people don't finish books.

This week in course was stocks and sauces. Do you KNOW how long it takes for some sauces? SIXTEEN HOURS. PLUS.
Thankfully, tomato sauce doesn't take that long... only about an hour, maybe.
This coming week is about stewing. The next couple of assessments seem as if they'll be a bit difficult in terms of timing... (2 hours cooking in a three hour window?)

Yesterday,

shadowsinfire came over and we watched the first six episodes of Torchwood.

dawnduskdancer will watch them and we shall watch them again in a few weeks time.
It's fun times, but you do realise that the actual stories in season one are horrible and absolutely silly, but at least it doesn't have delusions of plot. Because I do love season two, except for the three episode arc where they decided it was time for plot, but the stories weren't as silly. And I happen to understand that season 3 is filled with plot but no silly at all.
Rewatching also makes me want to write that Ianto/Gwen AU fic that's been lurking around my head. But then I'll remember Ianto/Tosh is also kind of cute and then wander off track with how Jack is such a father and it's a shame he can't have a name like Kuro-papa. And Gwen's kind of mother-y except not and then I'm back to giggling about how obvious the Jack/Gwen subtext is.

( Off tangent again, I go on about Farscape and 'Calculating God', the latter of which is a book. )

Now, off to get clean~

Current Mood: bouncy
Current Music: The Pierces; Secret

I am rereading 'The Door in the Air and other stories' by Margaret Mahy and I an quite tickled by some of the themes running through the stories. Especially how they can relate to my fandoms.

Fantastically gay dancers like Brighton are rather awesome.
Wizards need their dreams to prevent them getting lost in their magic.

Then the last story, The Magician in the Tower, that reminds me so much of HOLiC, with a door only opened to a few and those who do walk through change irrevocably. And magicians must change too and that magician's dreams hold the world together.

There has always been a magician in the tower and there always will be.

Current Mood: dreamy

Rhiannon and Tamsin, I finally finished this a couple of weeks ago. I’ll probably even go and re-read The Merlin Conspiracy because it’s been a while since I did read it.
If you are not the two above, they had been needling me to read it. ‘It’ being Deep Secret, the book that comes before The Merlin Conspiracy and is kind of a prequel except not. I do believe though, that they are both listed as being part of Diana Wynne Jones’ Magids series.

The entire book is fun. It has random sci-fi/fantasy references and all the adventure happens at a convention. How could it not be absolute win? It even has Sandman references and this was written mere years after the series finished.
The obvious 90’s feel of it all also kind of added to the fun. I am not sure all the trials and tribulations concerning computers and disks would be as amusing if you weren’t imagining floppy discs and Windows 3.1.

But aside from the general geek/nerd squee, it also reads very much like home. Which sounds very odd but it’s one of those books that immediately feels comfy and warm as soon as you get a few pages into it. There are only a few authors and a few series which read like that for me. Mostly fantasy authors and series, and okay, Diana Wynne Jones is one of those few authors but warm fuzzies from books! It makes me want to read them over and over again, because that warm fuzzy feeling is just so addictive. (Also, books are a bit less weird to get that feeling from than a movie which has

Unfortunately the combination of the two points above thus make me think this happens in the same universe as Good Omens. Yeah, I’ll just leave you with that image.

And I’d have a lot more squee here if I hadn’t returned the book two weeks ago. But I’ll settle for eyeing Rupert and how he went on about Rob and Nick’s prettiness way too much. Okay, so he also went ‘admire admire’ at Maree too, but… yeah, bi-dar activate!
Or something.
Except all the ‘ships/pairings were kind of ‘meh’, unless they were sibling relationships, in which case they were cute. (Yeah, both the Venables and Koryforian heirs.)
Keeping that in mind, I will admit Maree was unabashedly awesome.

That's it really... I wish I could say more aside from “It was really fun to read!” but yeah.

Current Mood: stressed

So, I am being bored and looking up random book fanart on DeviantArt. I can only be bothered to look at stuff I'm actually reading/have near me, so this means Corambis, Deep Secret and The Nickle Nackle Tree.

I've seen all the DoL fanart as it's a tiny fandom, there's only a few good arts of it and pretty much everything is posted to

the_mirador anyway. I also can't be bothered to search for terms like 'Mildmay' and 'Felix', as those would throw up heaps of results.
There's one sketch that I am desperately waiting to be completed and I know of one that is supremely awesome that I stumbled across that is lurking in my favourites.
It also vaguely amuses me that people draw the brothers' hair the same. It's not. Mildmay's hair doesn't seem to frizz and seems happy to be braided back. This means his hair is fairly straight and tameable. Felix's isn't. (He's cut it short at the end of Corambis, which makes me weep a bit. Partly because he cut his pretty hair and partly because I was at a loss of what my mental image would look like. Short! Curly! Orange! But then I had a brainwave and now mental image!Felix is wearing your hair from last year

shadowsinfire, when it was short.)

There is a dearth of Deep Secret fanart on dA as well, which doesn't surprise me. *mutters about book fandoms and obscurity of stuff that hasn't been made into a movie*
BUT, I did find an artist who does DWJ, Diane Duane AND Tamora Pierce fanart. alidaART has a unique style, but I'm mostly just jaw dropping over the fandoms they draw for.

Of course, there was NO Nickle Nackle Tree fanart. But I did learn there's a South park Character named Tweek.

Here, have a cute, disgruntled tapir.

Current Mood: bored
Current Location: bedroom

This is kind of a book post except not.
The books currently on my bedside include Corambis, which has many bookmarks and you will be getting a post of squealage for; Deep Secret, which I am actually reading, as opposed to skimming it when

shadowsinfire handed it to me two years ago or whenever it was; and the first volume of Vampire Hunter D, which isn't as bad in the 'D is beautiful' prose as I have been lead to believe.

First book is fine, I'm absolutely SQUEEING over every fifth page and CRAP I'm shipping Felix/Mildmay again they're so cute. (Just when I had gotten over that ship as well...)

Second book is more than fine because, possibly because I skimmed most of it one day, but I'm still getting the warm "you're back home" feeling from reading it. Rupert reminds me, in general, of Good Omens a bit much. And another book which I can't remember but was yay fun as well.
I so need to re-read The Merlin Conspiracy...

And Vampire Hunter D is... meh. I understand that translating a Japanese novel into English is kinda hard BUT OH GOD, it's so dense.

Also, why did I just randomly watch some YGO & Vocaloid cosplay skits? It just reminds me that I should really do something about completing one.

I read these two books shortly after each other and now I am dead from it.

Ink Exchange, along with Wicked Lovely, are the two stand alones in the series. Meaning you can read those independent of each other and still get what’s going on. The other three, you need to have read those two books to understand.
With that in mind, yes you can read Ink Exchange first but then you don’t get a superior feeling of knowing what happened with Aislinn and an ‘oh!’ when you realise who was in the tattoo shop that time.

( So... on Ink Exchange... )

Now, Fragile Eternity. This was… interesting and made me yo-yo between being angry at Seth and squeeing at him. It also made me really dislike Keenan as well. Not that I ever liked Keenan in the first place, but it drives home the fact he’s a manipulating bastard, which we only got to see a little bit of in Ink Exchange. (And not at all in Wicked Lovely, which makes sense as Aislinn is completely blind to that side of him and that book is hers.)
I found more to comment about in this book. I’m not sure whether it’s because it’s Seth’s book or because it’s the first book that is actually part of the series rather than a stand-alone. Because on one hand it’s SETH and I usually find something to say about my favourite characters but on the other there’s PLOT and threads of war and betrayal. Or perhaps it’s got characters becoming a bit more human as well as becoming a bit more inhuman.

( So, as I mentioned above, Seth was my favourite character and this book made him swing rather violently in and out of my good graces... )

Current Mood: interested
Current Location: about to have dinner

So... I randomly picked up Dragon Wytch by Yasmine Galenorn to see how bad the paranormal romance genre is most of the time.
And yes, the title does give a good idea of how bad it is.

I tried reading it through, but the first person past tense/the character narrating it annoyed the hell out of me. So I skimmed.

It does seem paranormal romance is romance + fairies/dragons/elves + fighting. There was more fighting in this book as far as I could see though. In terms of pages worth at least.
The romance portion consisted of some love square/triangle though. The summary of that seems more or less that the drow/dark elf was a traitor/spy and now the main character is in a 'triad' with a dragon and kitsune instead of with a dark elf and kitsune.
So it was a bit "Yay! Threesome" except it wasn't a good one like DouWataHima and was more like IshiTatsuHime. It was all focused on the main character.

( I actually have something approaching a term for the different threesome formations I've observed. )

Anyway, threesome was weird, even if dragons and kitsune are in my top five mythological creatures.
And when is Morio a Japanese name? 'Mori' and 'Rio', yes, but Morio sounds like some weird variant on 'Mario'.

I think I'll stick with my regular fantasy/sci fi and urban fantasy/modern faerie books.

( Bonus meme-like lists of favourite mythological creatures/regular animals )

Current Mood: mischievous

This one has Gwen (in boots), a tiger and oversized collectible card game cards on the cover. All of which are in the book, just not in that proximity. The presence of the tiger should tell you how silly bits of this is though. Not all of it like Almost Perfect just… bits.
Not so much monster/alien of the week either, just alien tech of the week. Which is a bit weird for the novels, but not too badly.
Also, rather oddly, Tosh and Ianto get the spotlight for this novel.

A quick sum up of this would be: pre-wedding, Ianto’s invisible for a portion of the book, Tosh is her adorable self, Owen doesn’t get much of a spotlight except as a person who makes jokes and the balance between ‘ships is almost on target.
Anyway, this’ll be mostly comments… onwards!

( Onwards )

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: internet is back, yay!

Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey

I had Phoenix and Ashes in my bookpile when I rambled about The Wizard of London and I didn’t even remember that I had it. Oh well…

( Anyway, this book is better than that one. )

House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones

( I finally got around to reading this sequel to 'Howl’s Moving Castle'... )

Current Music: White Lie; Kagamine Rin

This one gets creepy points for having Bilis on the cover. That and Ianto with half a clown face. No one likes Bilis and Ianto just looks silly with that Photoshopping. (Never mind that it’s unintentionally hilarious, what with all those Joker manips people were making last year.) Oh and about ten minutes after you’ve looked at the cover, you realised they’ve altered the Jack of Hearts on the cover so that it has Jack’s face.

It’s definitely a weird book. The dream futures can never happen, although they could’ve where the novel is placed. Which kinda makes your head hurt all kinds of upside down, but because in general it’s extremely weird, I’m gonna take it as not canon. I mean, Bilis shows up again.
And in ONE page, three fourths of the way through, the entire story shifts from “Bilis is evil” to “He’s actually trying to save us”. Wut.

Anyway, that’s all I can say about it. Mostly just comments that you won’t get if you haven’t read the book.

( And I ramble about the SUV, some of the team dynamics and Ianto's characterisation, chocolate, dream sequences, languages which aren't pronounced the way they spell and a bit about Foyle's War which is only vaguely relevant )

Now, a bit of a ramble.
“Everyone had that chance to turn left rather than right.” is one of the phrases that struck me as odd. I know that symbolically speaking, right is almost always considered the ‘light’ path and left the ‘dark’ path, but Turn Left had the ‘light’ path as left and the ‘dark’ path as right. I have no idea if there are any other Doctor Who episodes with a similar ‘left is good’ thing going on but… this book and it’s right=light theme AND The Wizard of London’s, which I was reading at the same time, seemed very odd after I remembered that episode.
After all, the sinister isn’t always wrong and bad, something I learnt from reading Margaret Mahy’s The Two Sisters, which I absolutely loved. (Which apparently has a chamber opera written for it.) It can be just as beautiful and good as the dexter, even if they are different. Lessons in fairytales 101.
So yes… felt a bit weird about this book and The Wizard of London keeping close to the usual narrative of light and dark/right and left-hand paths. Especially considering Turn Left.

Er... over all? I think I've already mentioned this, but it's weird. But I did like the funny bits.

Current Mood: bleh

So. This book. Somewhat infamous, mostly because if you read

truepenny talking about it at all you will come across her referring to some of the events that happen as ‘semi-consensual homosexual gangbangs’.
And although only applicable once, maybe twice, that description is quite apt.

However, for the other two hundred and ninety pages, it isn’t.

Anyway, I should begin this (somewhat) properly.
It’s very bildungsroman, a very Nordic genre for a very Nordic inspired story. (Okay, the term is German, but close enough.) Isolfr (Njall at the beginning) grows and matures along the course of the story and it pretty much reads like many a shonen manga that way. Except then you have the whole ‘semi-consensual homosexual gangbangs’ part and the fact he ends up with two guys. So it’s kind of shonen mixed up with a lot of BL.

Which leads to my next point. Kind of.
( Isolfr is some weird combination of Kurogane, Fai and Watanuki. Brawny, pale and fun to read about. )

( I should really mention Viradechtis at this point )

( And a bit about Gunnar... )

( Some particularly memorable moments.. )

My verdict on this is that it’s a great read is you like any of the following: shonen manga, yaoi/BL, threesomes, shameless female characters and Viking fantasy.
You won’t be distracted by secondary characters too much, if at all. I didn’t feel guilty about liking Viradechtis more than Isolfr, because she IS the second main character, even if she isn’t human. And well, if you really do find yourself distracted by Tin and the other svartalfar, there’s four? three? other books forthcoming, the first of which is seems to be about them, if the title is anything to go by.

So, definitely recommended.

Current Mood: dorky
Current Music: Spiral Labyrinth; Hatsune Miku

I do like the Elemental Mages series, but there hasn’t been any book as good at the first, The Serpent’s Shadow. I love the world, set in a Victorian England, and its magics but neither The Gates of Sleep nor this book are as good as that first.

Part of my partial dislike of this book is because it has a rather flimsy storyline and switches focus too many times. First it’s about Sarah and Nan, then Isabelle, then Cordelia and David, finally ending in a mish-mash of all five of them. The epilogue, as always, is not quite satisfying enough but the actual ending is still rather weak.
Oh and there are surface inconsistencies like paragraphs not ending with a full stop and people switching between ‘Ashcroft’ and ‘Alderscroft’.

( Mostly I was disappointed by the focus hopping. )

I did quite like the change from Elemental Magicians to the psychically (her word, not mine) Talented though. Even if they haven’t had memorable appearances in the other two books that I’ve read. Which tells me that continuity doesn’t really exist for this series. Which makes me sad somewhat, as I would love to see Maya again and perhaps Isabelle in other stories set in the same universe.

There was one interesting comment made and that was about choosing the right hand path. This is the second book that I've read recently that had a comment about that. But I'll save the ponderation for when I talk about that other book.

My verdict on this is that it’s a junk food read and only if you’ve read other books in the series. I would recommend the Joust series if you wanted to start something by her. *wants to re-read it now*

And heh, I tend to read second book first with Mercedes Lackey. The Serpent’s Shadow is technically the second book and I read Alta before Joust.

Current Mood: cynical
Current Music: Kokoro x Kokoro KISEKI -Yamai & Usa version-; Kagamine Len & Rin

Two books this time!

First up is:

( Dragonfly – Julia Golding )

Anyway, generally good. Which is in general better than this next one...

( Tantalize – Cynthia Leitich Smith )

So yes, this one is not recommended. At all.

Current Music: meltdown -tourai ver.-; Kagamine Rin

These review thingies are so overdue for these books. I finished them a month ago… orz

( Chalice – Robin McKinley )
( Wicked Lovely – Melisa Marr )
( The Birthday of the World and Other Stories – Ursula K. Le Guin )

Current Music: Mikigata no Chou; Kagamine Rin

This book is pretty much for all the Owen/Toshiko shippers who were never quite satisfied that all they ever got was episode 13 of season 2. Pretty much.
It focuses more on Owen than Tosh though, which makes this the THIRD Owen-centric novelisation that I’ve read in their little series. I’m beginning to think the authors really like him. Or his sense of humour. One of the two.

Um… it’s set RIGHT after episode 9 of the second season and the plot is pretty much set up by Rhys dragging Gwen to look at a show apartment. During the show-around though, the real estate agent ends up disappearing. With no signs of Rift activity, it’s investigation time!
Unfortunately, this means Owen and Tosh have to play house (for all of six hours, maybe) as cover.
Yes, this is rather amusing and they fail rather spectacularly.

As it is set after the wedding, there are some very forceful reminders that Gwen is unlikely to ever be with Jack. There’s some rambling about how Rhys is so accepting and is her hero, plus some general cheekiness when they’re being shown around the shiny apartment. (Including what they do on the kitchen counter that is NOT chopping up vegetables.) Oh, and a moment when both Capt. Jack and Gwen are exposed to psychotropic gas and he has to restrain her.
In general it’s a very Rhys/Gwen, Owen/Toshiko, Ianto/Jack book as far as shipping goes, although you barely see any of that last pairing. There’s one scene in the Hub, where Capt. Jack is doing up his shirt buttons and Ianto adjusts his tie (there’s more context in the actual book, but you get the idea it’s just very lightly touched on) then there’s another slight reference when Ianto’s trapped in the elevator and there’s a couple across from him and he hopes that Jack’s all right.
No writer seems to be able to strike a balance that pleases me. *sighs*

( Eh, at least there’s plenty of humour scattered about. )
( There's actually nothing really outstanding concerning OwenTosh except for this one bit... )

The ending is completely anti-climatic though and Tosh was the damsel in distress, which distressed me a bit, because while she isn’t the brawn of the team by any means, but Tosh =/= helpless.
And er… that’s it? My dad is currently stuck halfway through it, but I managed to finish it in less than 24 hours? (It’s a really slim book, only 250 pages.)

*goes back to reading*

I read that gender-switch novelisation, Almost Perfect. It is possibly crack squared. Maybe fanfiction squared with the amount of, for lack of a better word, fanservice. This book amuses me on that meta-level so much and I do have to wonder if the author knows about the fandom at all.
(There is a short chapter which is titled ‘Jack is in for a treat when he checks the CCTV’ and starts with Gwen and gender-switched!Ianto waking up from their nap on the sofa together. If that, aside from Gwen’s hair chewing, isn’t fanservice, I don’t know what is.)

Anyway, disappointingly, Ianto is simply body switched with a woman, rather than being changed into one. It also takes half the book to get to WHY he was body switched in the first place.
It has to do with aliens. Gay aliens in fact, although they may just be sexless and chose forms at random. Actually the body switch also seems to involve the aliens’ artifact, which renders stuff perfect.
Also, the aliens responsible are worse than Jack when it comes to… things, which isn’t exactly going to calm those snorfles of laughter but at least won’t make you shake your head when it comes to the oblique references of them and Jack together or the room of bodies.

Ianto gets to save the day though, which is always nice, and gets only one night of body-switched!sex before he returns to normal.
The epilogue is made of awesome by the way, as the alien artifact is pretending to be the Doctor and Jack talks to it and it’s only really good because imagining the dialogue in their voices is hilarious.

( There are other bits of fun and Ianto's bisexuality is highlighted several times... )

And as I’m posting this, I suddenly feel sad that TONIGHT IS THE LAST EPISODE OF SEASON TWO. I know that TVNZ wanted to air the third season right after, but I’m looking at the Wikipedia page and it’s saying the airdate for the UK is June or July.
So yeah, sad that the TV season is ‘finished’ and the story is put on hold, if only for a little while.

Current Mood: sad

So, Neil Gaiman’s first comic that he wrote. Which, based upon some of his earlier stuff, as well as Dave McKean’s in general, I was expecting something much darker and grotesque.
Instead, I found myself reading something that nestled nicely between what little I know of the DC universe and a ‘superhero’ I rather liked.

Firstly, the art is really really pretty. There’s all these saturated colour inks and paint and then there are dark, gritty black and white graphite drawings. Nothing is inked in the traditional sense and while it can seem a bit ‘arty’, is also more organic, natural and soft, which reflects the story.

( The story starts with the death of the first Black Orchid and the rise of consciousness in the second. )

Is it good bedtime reading as I tried to earlier in the week? Answer: The first part is and perhaps the last bit as well. But not the middle. The middle requires too much upper-brain functions for good bedtime reading.
Is it good reading otherwise? Yes.

Current Music: December; Vermillion Lies

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Entries tagged with book

Thirteenth Child: Frontier Magic book one – Patricia C. Wrede

YATN; Border Princes

Corambis - Sarah Monette

A proper entry, kind of, which just degenerates into sci fi rambling

always has been, always will

Deep Secret – Diana Wynne Jones

is bored

(no subject)

Ink Exchange and Fragile Eternity – Melissa Marr

in which Chloe gets off topic

YATN (yet another Torchwood novelisation) Pack Animals

Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey; House of Many Ways; Diana Wynne Jones

Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey

House of Many Ways – Diana Wynne Jones

The Twilight Streets – yet another Torchwood novelisation

Begin the fangirling – A Companion to Wolves

The Wizard of London – Mercedes Lackey

A dragonfly and a vampire walk into a library…

Three books

Torchwood Novelisation: Skypoint

G-g-gender switch?

Black Orchid