From the front flap: In a world where malices—remnants of ancient magic—can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets and themselves from the farmers they protect, so when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farmer girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, … [Read more...] about The Sharing Knife: Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold: B-
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The Laughing Cavalier by Baroness Orczy: B
From the back cover: The year is 1623, the place Haarlem in the Netherlands. Diogenes—the first Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel's ancestor—and his friends Pythagoras and Socrates defend justice and the royalist cause. The famous artist Frans Hals also makes an appearance in this historical adventure. Orczy maintains that Hals' celebrated portrait of The Laughing … [Read more...] about The Laughing Cavalier by Baroness Orczy: B
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill: B-
From the front flap: London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions. Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Hawley Griffin, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr. Edward Hyde, and Mina Murray are those champions and together they … [Read more...] about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1 by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill: B-
Memories of the Future 1 by Wil Wheaton: B
From the back cover: The away team returns from the planet with some very good news: it's clean, it's beautiful, it's populated with friendly humanoids... and they really like to do the nasty. "At the drop of a hat," according to Geordi. "Any hat," Tasha says knowingly. Picard sends a second, larger team down to the planet to see exactly how many hats they're going to … [Read more...] about Memories of the Future 1 by Wil Wheaton: B
Heat Wave by Richard Castle: B
From the front flap: A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the … [Read more...] about Heat Wave by Richard Castle: B