Category: Reading
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Sorcery and Cecelia
Review of Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer set in a magical regency England. The young adult novel takes the form of letters written between Kate and Cecelia. They write to each other about their lives, love, marriage and solving a mystery.
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William Monk by Anne Perry
Review of William Monk by Anne Perry. The first book in historical fiction series, the William Monk, is called The Face of a Stranger and is set in London in the 1856.
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Parasite by Mira Grant
Review of Parasite by Mira Grant. Parasite is a near future medical thriller set “A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite – a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation.”
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The Finishing School series: Etiquette and Espionage and Curtsies and Conspiracies
Review of Etiquette and Espionage, Curtsies & Conspiracies and the rest of the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger. Sophronia is sent of to an unusual finishing school, where she learns spy craft and have wonderful adventures with her friends and a steampunk dog.
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Indexing by Seanan McGuire
Review of Indexing by Seanan McGuire. Indexing is a book about stories, the stories that make up our life and the stories that define our identity. It is also very much a meta-fictional story, because it is a story about fairy tales. Fairy tales trying to control the stories of our world no less.
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Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
Review of Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede. It’s a fantasy novel set in an alternative version of North America during the ‘Go West’ era. It is a frontier fantasy that turns North American into a magical land filled with strange supernatural creatures. The setting is quite problematic, so know this going in.
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24 Urban Fantasy Books I recommend
If you are looking for urban fantasy recommendations, then you will find 24 great urban fantasy books. The list is originally from 2013, so you might find find some titles you don’t know because they have fallen out of our collective memory, but they are still really good books.
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What is Urban Fantasy?
Urban fantasy is one of my all time favourite genres. As a reader genres are helpful, when we want a particular flavour of book, so it is worth examining what we mean when we talk about urban fantasy.
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The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Review of The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. The Last Unicorn is an young adult fantasy classic that plays with fairytale story structure, metafictional elements and is quite weird and melancholy
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Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce
Review of Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce, The Circle Reforged book 4. In Battle Magic a visit to the empirical palace turns into a gilded cage. Battle Magic is the darkest of Tamora Pierce’s young adult novels.