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There are only two small reasons why I’m not declaring this book my book of the year: 1) it’s January and 2) I technically read this last year. But if this volume doesn’t end up on a ton of ‘best of’ lists this year, then it’ll be a travesty. Here’s my summary of the book…
It is a fact well-known that an exiled Faerie prince on the run from his homicidal mother must be in want of… a cat. Okay, maybe not, but that’s the goal in Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands. Wendell Bambleby is on the hunt for a door back to his own kingdom of Faerie, and…
You simply can’t have read urban fantasy for any length of time and not have encountered Diana Pharaoh Francis. I’ve seen her name for years but never had an excuse to read anything. Not for lack of desire, but through a very, very long reading list. That was, until I discovered RJ Blain and went…
Finally, in this volume, we get all the gory details of how Valdemar was gifted with their mythical Companions. I won’t spoil it for you, especially not with how long it’s been since this series started. The infant kingdom of Valdemar is led by a good man, but he is still just a man, as…