Category: Fantasy
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Brandon Sanderson – The Rithmatist
*sigh* Brandon Sanderson. Is it even possible for him to write a bad book? I’d love to take a glimpse inside his head, his creativity is just endless. I love the fact that every Sanderson book you read has a different world and a different magic system, but it’s always introduced so well that it’s
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Maria V. Snyder – Magic Study
So while I was reading this book, I kinda broke my blog a little bit, so I haven’t been able to post this review, even though it’s been well over a month since I read it. So I do apologise if this review is lacking a bit. I’ve also been in hospital for the last
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Maria V. Snyder – Poison Study
If you’re following my reviews, you’ll have probably noticed that I haven’t read very much this year, I just haven’t found myself wanting to pick up a book and read very much. But if I needed a book to renew my desire to read, Poison Study was perfect. My friend Abi bought it for me
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Robin Hobb – Assassin’s Apprentice
I received this book as a free book from Kindle about a year ago, and it’s taken me this long to get around to reading it. I must admit that it took me a long time to warm to the book, it didn’t catch my attention enough to keep me drawn in so I stopped
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Brandon Sanderson – Steelheart
A week ago, I was stood in Waterstones torn between buying the two Stormlight Archive books, or whether to buy this. In the end, I settled on buying this and the first of the Stormlight books, mainly because the Stormlights are so big I didn’t think I could carry two of them around for the
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Karen Miller – The Awakened Mage
I was absolutely blown away by this book. After The Innocent Mage ended on such a massive cliffhanger, I couldn’t wait to sink my teeth into this and find out what happened to Gar and Asher and everyone else. Whereas The Innocent Mage started off quite slowly, I didn’t have too many problems with the
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Karen Miller – The Innocent Mage
This was a wonderful birthday present from my friend Abi. She’s the one that got me into reading fantasy, and I don’t think she’s ever suggested a book I haven’t loved. I found that this book started off a little slow, there was a lot of time spent building up the back-story and getting slowly
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Charlie N. Holmberg – The Master Magician
When I found out this book had been released, I had to stop what I was reading and get this right away! Thank goodness for Kindle Unlimited, which meant I could read this without worrying about the state of my bank balance! I fell in love with Ceony and Emery at the end of last
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Cassandra Clare – City of Heavenly Fire (Mortal Instruments #6)
You know you’re not really enthralled in a series when you get to the last book and your main thought is ‘thank goodness this is nearly over’. Granted, the last book in the series did come action packed with drama and suspense, with unexpected twists and turns along the way, but it just wasn’t enough
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Cassandra Clare – City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5)
Well this series took a turn for the weird again. No sooner have we got away from the fact that Clary was in love with her supposed brother, but her real brother has now arrived on the scene big style, and their relationship (or should I say how he sees their relationship) is just downright
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Cassandra Clare – City of Fallen Angels (Mortal Instruments #4)
Finally this series is getting a bit more dark. There’s a hell of a lot going on in this book, and thankfully we seem to not be solely focusing on Clary and her endless teenage moping. In fact, we spend much of the first part of the book focused on Simon. He’d just about got
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Cassandra Clare – City of Glass (Mortal Instruments #3)
While I’m still not finding this series anywhere near as well written as other fantasy series that I have read, it’s slowly improving book by book. The depth of the plot is still pretty shallow to me, although the character development is improving over time. The story was action packed and filled with drama. There
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Cassandra Clare – City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments #2)
Well it looks like this series may just have earned itself a second chance. Unfortunately, Clary was still stuck in a very teenage love triangle with her supposed brother and her best friend. Slightly creepy, but at least she wasn’t quite as mopey as the first book. The book contained much more action than City
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Cassandra Clare – City of Bones (Mortal Instruments #1)
I was prepared to fall in love with this book in a ‘this is going to be an awesome series’ kind of way. But unfortunately, the book was less Hunger Games and more Twilight. The female lead was a bit of a wet sponge, moping over her new crush Jace, while being totally oblivious to
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Charlie N. Holmberg – The Glass Magician
Despite my fears that this book would move on from Ceony and Thane, I was delighted when I started reading and it was a continuation of their story. As with the first book, I loved the complicated relationship between the two characters and how this was developed slowly throughout the book. After Ceony had defeated
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