fantasy
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The Centaur’s Wife by Amanda LeDuc
The Centaur’s Wife by Amanda Leduc My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book must have been like a difficult birth as it was so ethereally emotional for me to read, that I can’t begin to understand what it would have been like to write. I find it really hard to read anything dystopian in…
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Blood like Magic by Liselle Sambury
Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury My rating: 5 of 5 stars Having read some really strong female BIPOC fantasy lately, Tomi Adeyemi Cherie Dimaline Jael Richardson I was immediately skeptical about how much I would enjoy this, but I loved it. It was filled with diverse characters and real settings in Toronto without being…
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Becoming Leidah by Michelle Grierson
Becoming Leidah by Michelle Grierson My rating: 5 of 5 stars I waited so long to get my hands on this debut novel for the Nordic setting and it’s dip into mythology. It’s just a quiet little Norwegian fishing village …or is it? One of the local fishermen, Pieter, happens to catch a little something…
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The Daughter of Smoke & Bone Trilogy by Laini Taylor
Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor The entire Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy is just delicious. For anyone new to fantasy it gently eases the reader into the world that author Laini Taylor builds by starting us with our protagonist, Karou who is an art student in Prague with a mysterious past…
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Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem by S. Niles, D. Wachter, M. Santoro
Breath of Bones: A Tale of the Golem by Steve Niles My rating: 5 of 5 stars Set in World War II, our main character struggles to help his grandparents make ends meet. To keep the village safe, a tiny clay man is given to the grandson and he is told to “Get to know…
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The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E.K. Johnston
The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E.K. Johnston Give me a book about dragons in the White Pine section of the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading http://www.accessola.org/web/OLA/Fore… and I am your girl. Now if you set that book in my area of Ontario and revise Canadian history to include all sorts…
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