So, on the plus side, despite serious RL interventions progress on my card is well under way, with four squares (including the centre / free / raven square) marked "called and read"; three of these in a row -- plus reading for the remaining two squares of that row also in progress -- and several mor...
Book, it's not you. It's me. This year I read several books that really helped me pin down what I do and do not enjoy in my reading. This book helped me realize that I really don't enjoy historical fiction. It's just a matter of taste. Cho really embraces regency fiction, and she nails it. Unfortuna...
The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers maintains the magic within His Majesty’s lands. But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman as their Sorcerer Royal and allowing England’s stores of magic to bleed dry. At his wit’s end, Zachar...
This books has all the things I love. Except penguins and cats. It was blurbed by Novick, Leckie, Carriger, and Milan, among many others. If you've been looking for a fantasy Regency book with an intersectional way of telling the story, then this is the one. The prospect of more fills me with deligh...
This book was not at all what I expected...but I enjoyed it a lot. I don't think the cover or blurbs actually capture this book very well. And I don't think my description would either. I put my thoughts earlier on some of what struck me and I enjoyed, and it's too much to put down all here.. So l...
Sorcerer to the Crown, one of the Great Hyped Books of 2015, is actually pretty fantastic. It's set in Regency England (I think? Not 100 per cent sure about the time period), or rather an alternate version in which magic is studied by and taught to rich gentlemen. It's illegal for women to study mag...
Wonderful read, my favourite book so far this year. England is running out of magic, but sexism and racial prejudice in 19th century British magical circles stand in the way of a solution. But two sorcerers can save the day if they're allowed. Zaccharias, the black African mage, is Sorcerer to the...
I’ve been hearing about Zen Cho’s novel, Sorcerer to the Crown, for months, ever since Rebecca Schinsky of Book Riot raved about it. Once again, she has not steered me wrong. Sorcerer to the Crown is stuffed with so many of the things I love in fiction: outrageous women, mysterious alternate histori...
I was so-o-o disappointed. Most of my ‘bookish’ friends loved this novel, but I didn’t. Maybe I expected too much. The book starts well and promises great things to come. It introduces two interesting protagonists, both non-white, in the vaguely Regency England. With magic. Zacharias is a young blac...
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