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This second book in the Broken Earth Trilogy doesn’t pack the same punch as the first one, but it is still quite good. Essun now lives in the underground settlement of Castrima. She still wants to find her daughter Nassun, but the oncoming Season makes this nearly impossible. But in Castrima she has found Alabaster, the man who broke the world, who was her teacher,
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Ivy Gamble is a private investigator. Normally she spends a lot of time following around cheating spouses, so when a well-dressed woman appears in her office and offers her a chance to work on a murder case, it’s tough to refuse. But there’s another wrinkle — the possible murder happened at a school for magically-inclined children where Ivy’s very magical twin sister Tabatha is a
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I don’t usually double-back and read prequels, but after finishing the newest Hollows book I wanted more, so I picked this up. And I’m glad I did! The Turn is essentially the story of Trent’s parents, Kal and Trisk, and the role they played in The Turn — where tomatoes became deadly to humans and the Interlanders began to reveal themselves to humankind. Since Trisk
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Hooray for a return to the Hollows and Rachel Morgan! This series has long been my favorite urban fantasy series, and I was excited to see that Harrison decided to continue it after a 6 year hiatus. Here, Rachel’s life has become both simpler (because she no longer has to hide that she’s a demon) and more complicated (because she is a witch/demon in a
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