Mount Readmore Book Review, 2018 69/200
The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami
LeVar Burton Reads Edition
Finished on 5/12/2018
Description: A man and his wife have a heart to heart, and things get wild
Genres: Fantasy, Short Story, Urban Fantasy, Surreal, New Weird, Fantastic Mundane,
Mount Readmore Book Review, 2018 68/200
Briar’s Book by Tamora Pierce
Audiobook Edition
Finished on 5/12/2018
Description: Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle of Magic quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb.
Four elements of power, four mages-in-training learning to control them. In Book 4 of the Circle of Magic Quartet, former “street rat” Briar leads a comfortable life at Winding Circle Temple, learning plant magic from his teacher Rosethorn. But street kids are still his friends, and when one of them gets sick, she turns to Briar for help. As the mysterious illness spreads, Sandry, Daja, and Tris join Briar and their teachers to fight the epidemic. But just as the situation improves, the unthinkable happens. Will Briar be able to save what he loves most?
Genres: Fantasy, YA, Magic School, Middle Grade, Ensemble
The Expanse Season 2, by Alcon
Finished 5/24/2018
Genres: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Hard Sci Fi
Mount Readmore Book Review, 2018 67/200
Sandry’s Book by Tamora Pierce
Audiobook Edition
Finished on 5/10/2018
Description: With her gift of weaving silk thread and creating light, Sandry is brought to the Winding Circle community. There she meets Briar, a former thief who has a way with plants; Daja, an outcast gifted at metalcraft; and Tris, whose connection with the weather unsettles everyone, including herself. At Winding Circle, the four misfits are taught how to use their magic–and to trust each other. But then disaster strikes their new home. Can Sandry weave together four kinds of magical power and save herself, her friends, and the one place they have ever been accepted?
Genres: Fantasy, YA, Magic School, Middle Grade, Ensemble
Mount Readmore Book Review, 2018 78/200
Wrath of Empire by Brian McClellan
Audiobook Edition
Finished on 5/20/2018
Description:
The country is in turmoil. With the capital city occupied, half a million refugees are on the march, looking for safety on the frontier, accompanied by Lady Flint’s soldiers. But escaping war is never easy, and soon the battle may find them, whether they are prepared or not.
Back in the capital, Michel Bravis smuggles even more refugees out of the city. But internal forces are working against him. With enemies on all sides, Michael may be forced to find help with the very occupiers he’s trying to undermine.
Meanwhile, Ben Styke is building his own army. He and his mad lancers are gathering every able body they can find and searching for an ancient artifact that may have the power to turn the tides of war in their favor. But what they find may not be what they’re looking for.
Genres: Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Military Fantasy, Flintlock Fantasy, High Fantasy, Powder Mage, Gods of Blood and Powder
Mount Readmore Book Review, 2018 76/200
Bookburners: Season Four, Episode 1, BODY PROBLEMS by Max Gladstone
eBook Edition
Finished on 5/19/2018
Description:
This is the first episode in the fourth season of Bookburners, a 10-episode serial from Serial Box Publishing. This episode written by Max Gladstone.
Magic is real…and hungry.
The Maitresse hasn’t exactly given the Bookburners good reason to trust her in the past, so when they all receive an invitation from her to attend a spontaneous Market Arcanum, they’re not sure they should go. Is this a peace offering? A sincere attempt to work together? Or could it all be a very elaborate trap?
Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Bookburner, Urban Fantasy
Mount Readmore Book Review, 2018 64/200
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
Audiobook Edition
Finished on 5/5/2018
Description:
Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn’s already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.
Genres: Mystery, Crime, Leaphorn & Chee, Navajo, Western, Police Procedural
Mount Readmore Book Review, 2018 63/200
B is for Bigfoot by Jim Butcher
eBook Edition
Finished on 5/5/2018
Description:
Short story in the Dresden files series
Genres: Fantasy, High Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Harry Dresden, Short Story
Mount Readmore Book Review, 2018 61/200
Heir of Sea and Fire by Patricia A. McKillip
Audiobook Edition
Finished on 5/3/2018
Description:
By the vow of her father and her own desire, Raederle was pledged to Morgon, Riddle-Master of Hed. But a year had passed since Morgon disappeared on his search for the High One at Erlenstar Mountain, and rumors claimed he was dead.
Raederle set out to learn the truth for herself, though her small gift of magic seemed too slight for the perils she must face. The quest led through strange lands and dangerous adventures. Only her growing powers enabled her at last to reach Erlenstar Mountain. And there she discovered what she could not bear to accept.
Accompanied by Deth, the High One’s Harper, she fled. And behind them came a pursuer whose name was Morgon, bent on executing a grim destiny upon Raederle and Deth.
Her only hope lay in summoning the Hosts of the Dead, led by the King whose skull she bore . . .
Genres: Fantasy, High Fantasy, Quest Fantasy
Mount Readmore Book Review, 2018 66/200
Brief Cases by Jim Butcher
eBook Edition
Finished on 5/9/2018
Description:Brief Cases is the sequel anthology of Side Jobs, and will be released before Peace Talks
Genres: Mystery, Crime, Urban Fantasy, Short Stories, Western, Anthology, Dresden Files
