Note: I received this ebook from the publisher, via Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review. These days, I don’t read much high fantasy. It’s not that I’m ashamed of the many hours I spent reading Mercedes Lackey books in middle and high school; it’s just that I rarely, rarely feel like returning to that type of fantasy. But I’ve never been able to quit Lynn Flewelling. I looooved The Bone Doll’s Twin (you can always get me with gender stuff and a healthy dose of creepiness), and I get a kick out of seeing the Seregil and Alec doing…
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I will never catch up on reviews
Published 1 Oct 2010
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Gin Jenny
…if I don’t do a bunch of short ones all at once. Thus: The Golden Mean, Annabel Lyon I checked this out on Gavin’s recommendation and because I love Alexander the Great. Your claims that he was a psychotic alcoholic have no effect on me because in my mind he is exactly the way Mary Renault writes him in Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy. The Golden Mean is about Aristotle when he comes to Macedon to tutor young Alexander. Though Lyon was clearly influenced by Mary Renault’s books, she gives a more nuanced picture of Alexander, showing a…
36 CommentsReview: The White Road, Lynn Flewelling
Published 15 Jun 2010
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Gin Jenny
Two things I enjoy in fantasy books: Chicanery. And political machinations. Preferably at the same time, like when people use their wits to effect the toppling of regimes or noble houses. I have no particular books in mind when I mention this, of course, although now that I mention it, I do seem to recall that there is a series of books by one Megan Whalen Turner that possess both of these elements. IN SPADES. Two things I tend not to enjoy in fantasy books: Lots of made-up words. And fuzzy-edged pseudo-mystic religions. And look, it hurts me to say…
48 CommentsShadows Return, Lynn Flewelling
Published 25 Jun 2008
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Gin Jenny
My amazing sister went and bought me a copy of this before it was supposed to come out (which was today, I guess). Foolish Books-a-Million (not my bookstore chain of choice) put it on the shelves before its release date, and brilliant Anna bought us each a copy. Joy! Darling Alec, darling Seregil, I support their relationship so much! They are so much more satisfying than Ki and Tamar turned out to be (although I strongly supported that relationship also)! And now they’ve – um. You know. Returned. As the title may have implied to you. What had happened was:…
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