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Chicken Houses and Scattershot Plots Author: Genna Rose Nethercott Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house that walks on chicken legs. Her powers are both weird and wonderful, her abilities uncanny, her morality an ephemeral thing. One day she will cure you, the next she’ll strip the skin from your body to make her daughters’ slippers. Her legacy is one of magic, but it’s also one of generational trauma, of haunted memories, of death and destruction. Today, Baba Yaga has two flighty descendants. Isaac Yaga, aka Chameleon Man, was born with the power to emulate anyone, to shed [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-21T10:36:46-07:00October 21st, 2024|Tags: book review, fantasy, folklore, magical realism, read, reading|

Shark Heart

Would you still love me if I were a shark? Author: Emily Habeck Newlyweds Lewis and Wren dream of many things. Lewis, a failed actor and beloved teacher, still dreams that one day he will write the play to end all plays. And Wren, she dreams of never being abandoned again, of embracing someone who will stay. Both will have their hearts broken. Lewis notices the changes at first and thinks nothing of them, but eventually he puts aside his avoidance and goes to the doctor. The diagnosis is stark. His body is, indeed, changing, and there is nothing they can [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-15T10:24:39-07:00October 15th, 2024|Tags: book review, botm, fantasy, literary, magical realism, read, reading|

Tanis: The Shadow Years

Tanis and Another Dumb Romance Authors: Barbara Siegel & Scott Siegel Before the War of the Lance, the companions split up, each going on a separate adventure, fighting their personal demons and finding their destinies. As the finale to this Preludes series, which reveals each of the companions’ journeys (some of which are far better than others), we come back to the conflicted hero, Tanis Half-Elven. In The Chronicles, Tanis is torn between two loves and between two choices: good and evil. In this book, Tanis is once again in a complicated relationship, traveling back in time through the memory of [...]

Frances Carden2024-10-12T15:21:20-07:00October 12th, 2024|Tags: dragonlance, fantasy, preludes|