phildini, while reading rated Six-Gun Snow White: 3 stars
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (duplicate)
A retelling of "Snow White" set in the "gritty gun-slinging west." Her parents were a Nevada silver baron who forced …
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phildini, while reading rated Taproot: 4 stars
Taproot by Keezy Young
Blue is having a hard time moving on. He's in love with his best friend. He's also dead. Luckily, Hamal …
phildini, while reading rated A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking: 4 stars
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
Fourteen year old Mona is a baker but she is also a not-very-powerful wizard - her medium of choice is …
phildini, while reading rated A Master of Djinn: 5 stars
A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, …
phildini, while reading rated The Golden Enclaves: 5 stars
The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance, #3)
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. …
phildini, while reading rated The Last Graduate: 5 stars
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2)
Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday …
phildini, while reading rated A Deadly Education: 5 stars
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #1)
I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life.
Everyone loves Orion Lake. …
phildini, while reading reviewed Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of …
A fun romp, not my favorite of the series
3 stars
phildini, while reading rated The Goblin Emperor: 4 stars
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (The Goblin Emperor, #1)
A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a brilliant young talent
The …
phildini, while reading rated A Wizard Abroad: 5 stars
A Wizard Abroad by Diane Duane (Young Wizards, #4)
A Wizard Abroad is the fourth book in the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane. It is the sequel to …
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
The most interesting fantasy about the nature of religion since "Small Gods"
4 stars
phildini, while reading reviewed The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In …
Lost at least a star for the epilogue.
3 stars
phildini, while reading rated The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories: 4 stars
phildini, while reading rated Grocery: 1 star
Grocery by Michael Ruhlman
Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of …
phildini, while reading rated A Thousand Beginnings and Endings: 5 stars
A Thousand Beginnings and Endings by Ellen Oh
A mountain loses her heart. Two sisters transform into birds to escape captivity. A young man learns the true meaning …