August State of the Book Basket

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Katy K.

It’s almost the end of summer – this week is the big back-to-school picnic at the lake, where the children find out what teacher they’ll have next year. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my daughter gets the same K/1 teacher my son had (though I’ve heard only good things about the other teachers), because she is wonderful and because my daughter has been visiting her class every day she was in the school for four years, including two years when my son wasn’t in the class.

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Rose and the Lost Princess

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Katy K.

I really enjoyed reading Rose, one of the Cybils finalists this year, and I was so happy when I won this copy of the sequel from Liviana at .

Rose and the Lost PrincessRose and the Lost Princess by Holly Webb. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 2014.
When Rose was taken on as an apprentice to Mr. Fountain, the king’s chief magician, while keeping her useful and practical job as one of his housemaids, it seemed like the perfect solution. She’d thought, too, that having caught a wicked magician by magic would have made people in general more comfortable around magic. But the reality turns out to be much different. She’s exhausted from trying to do two jobs at once, and overall feelings towards magicians are downright hostile – even from her former friends on Mr. Fountain’s staff. When snow comes and stays in October, she feels sure there must be a magical cause, but not even Mr. Fountain can figure out how anyone could make it happen. Then Princess Jane, beloved of the military despite her three older sisters, is threatened. Rose is assigned to be her undercover guard in the palace – but will even that be enough? Rose will have to get a lot more comfortable with her powers very quickly to stop the kingdom from falling into complete chaos!!!!

Often magic feels the very opposite of practical and down-to-earth, which is maybe partly why Rose, who is all three of those things, is such a delightful character. Rose works to make friends on all levels of society, while disrupting devious and dastardly plots. The kingdom feels very British, but the enemy is the nearby kingdom of Talish, which I found a little distracting – is it alternate history or a completely new fantasy world? Even though the cover is pink and swirly, I’m sure my own boy at least would find this to be action-focused enough to make an enjoyable book, while girls and adult fans of children’s fantasy will eat it up with no difficulty at all. This continues to be a delightful series, and I’m very much looking forward to Rose and the Magician’s Mask coming out in September.

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Bud, Not Buddy and The Mighty Miss Malone

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Katy K.

Before I get on to books, I wanted to let all of my blogging friends not already connected with the Cybils know that Cybils season is coming up. If you’re interested in being a Cybils panelist, you can apply now through the end of August! I am trying very hard not to hold my breath until the judges are actually announced. (See my list of bookish goals.)

Towards the end of the school year, we got an email from the 4/5 literature teacher, letting us know that Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry was on the reading list for next year (that would be the one just about to start now), and that any parents who objected should let her know.

I told her that Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a great book and brought her a small stack of new books on similar topics. (Revolution by Deborah Wiles, The Girl from the Tar Paper School by Teri Kanefield, and A Dance like Starlight by Kristy Dempsey.) I also decided that it was time for the boy and me to listen to some in a similar vein. I’d read and loved Bud, Not Buddy in library school (dating myself here… it was very new!) but hadn’t yet gotten around to The Mighty Miss Malone, though it was on my pile for the 48 Hour Reading Challenge.

Bud Not BuddyBud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. Read by James Avery. Random House Listening Library, 2000.
The Great Depression is especially hard on orphans in Flint, Michigan. Bud Caldwell has been bounced around a lot since his mother passed when he was six. The orphanage keeps trying to find foster homes for him, and the homes keep sending him back. When his most recent foster home turns out to be even more cruel than he’d feared, Bud decides to go on the lam. He and his orphanage friend hope to catch the train out west to find work. But while Bud meets a sweet girl, Deza Malone, in the cardboard Hooverville outside of Flint, he doesn’t catch the train. Instead, he decides to walk across the state to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he hopes to find the man he thinks is his father – Herman E. Calloway, the leader of the band The Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!! (I really love that name!) On the way, there’s attempted car theft, a small dose of early union organizing, lots of jazz, and things not going according plan.

There are times when I feel like the Newbery committee may have missed the mark, and times when I feel they’re spot-on. This is one of the latter. A book about the Depression certainly has a lot of potential to be depressing, but Bud is anything but. He’s full of humor and pluck and has his entertaining list of rules for having a funner life and being a better liar. James Avery’s rich voice is the perfect accompaniment for the story. My son and I both enjoyed, and he was all about going straight on to the next book.

The Mighty Miss MaloneThe Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis. Read by Bahni Turpin. Random House Listening Library, 2012.
In Bud, Not Buddy, we met Deza Malone, who was with her mother and brother trying to find her father. In this more recent book, we hear the story of how the family came to be separated. Things are tough in general in Gary, Indiana – Mr. Malone can’t find work, and they don’t have money to get Deza’s cavities filled or to figure out why her older brother Jimmie has stopped growing. But Deza is excelling at her all-black school, with a best friend and a very supportive teacher. After Joe Louis is defeated by the German Max Schmelling, the whole town falls into a depression. Her father is in a boating accident that kills his best friends, and decides that he must leave to find work in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. Months later, with no word from him, Mrs. Malone decides that they need to find Mr. Malone, and they set out with just what they can carry. But there’s no sign of Mr. Malone in Flint, either, which is how they end up in Flint’s Hooverville. Can Deza keep the rest of her family together until they can get back on the path to wonderful?

From the start, it’s clear that much-loved Deza with her long not-quite-understood vocabulary words is a very different character from Bud, left on his own for so many years. She’s brought beautifully to life by Bahni Turpin, who reads the whole varied cast of characters very convincingly. Even though Deza isn’t an orphan and there are still plenty of funny moment, I found The Mighty Miss Malone a harder book to read. There are just so many injustices that burn in the belly, from the Malones being evicted even though the rent is paid ahead, to Deza’s white teachers in Flint giving her Cs on her report card in spite of getting As on all her tests. The story of her father’s boating accident was disturbing and had my son asking if such a thing would really happen. I really like the family dynamic, where the adults always seemed like loving, involved parents, but there was still room for the kids to make serious contributions. Deza finds ways to hold on and works to bring her family together again even when her mother or brother temporarily gives up hope, proving that she is the Mighty Miss Malone. Curtis’s afterword explains more about the Schmelling/Louis fights and highlights the continued income gaps between whites and minorities in the U.S.

Both of these books hook readers with a combination of great characters and excitement, giving an inside view of life for those hardest hit by the Depression of the 1930s along the way. They’re wonderful, entertaining stories in their own right and recommended for everyone middle grade and up.

What are your favorite books for exploring racial injustice and/or the Great Depression?

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Traitors’ Gate

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Katy K.

I’ve talked before about the trouble I’ve had finishing series, especially since I became a librarian and book blogger. There are just so many series to try! This book is the last in the series I was feeling most guilty about not finishing, since Kate was kind enough to comment that the last book wasn’t as difficult as the second. It still took over a year to get to it both because the series is heavy and because I knew I’d have to set aside two to three weeks to get through it.

Traitors' GateTraitors’ Gate. Crossroads Trilogy Book 3. by Kate Elliott. Tor, 2009.
This is the third book in the trilogy and therefore, spoilers for the first book are inevitable. In the first book, Spirit Gate the land of the Hundred was regulated between the reeves riding the giant eagles who chose them and the temples of the various gods. Everything used to be overseen by the Guardians, but no one has seen the Guardians in generations. Now they have been sighted again – but instead of bringing increased order, they are laying waste to the kingdom, burning, raping, pillaging, and overturning the temples of the gods. Our large cast of characters from inside and outside the kingdom attempts to bring order to the situation, all for their own reasons and with slightly different end goals. In the second book, <em>Shadow Gate</em>  (very broadly summarizing), there were a few victories and a large number of defeats. Now in the third book, the tide finally seems to be turning in our allies’ favor – but this also serves to highlight the differences in their approaches and the need for a consolidated approach.

Here are just a few of the many things going on: Keshad, the slave who bought himself and his sister out of slavery, travels with Eliar of the minority Ri Amarah, to neighboring Sirniaken to spy for Captain Anji, who needs the Sirniakens to acknowledge his right to a peaceful life in the Hundred. Things do not go as planned. Meanwhile, Keshad’s sister Zubaidit, a trained assassin of the Merciless One, is undercover in the evil Star of Life army, where we meet our first relatively honest Star of Life character, Captain Arras. Captain Anji’s wife Mai (probably my favorite character) continues her work trying to integrate the Qin men into the life of the Hundred. Her life now is woven through with the needs of her nursing baby – a rare and beautiful depiction of this stage of motherhood in a working mother’s life. Mai is shaken to her core by the arrival of her mother-in-law, trained to ruthlessness in the Sirniaken court. We are introduced to some of the non-human intelligent beings of the Hundred: wildlings, firelings, and demons.

Larger themes look at the big picture: if some of the Guardians are corrupt, does that mean they should all be done away with? Can there be a true religion, and what does it mean for its future if religion can be corrupted and used for evil? We also look at the impact of the Qin on the culture of the Hundred, bringing order and peace on the one hand, but also military rule, much more limited roles for women, and intolerance for homosexuality. Overall, this final entry in the series, while not what you’d call easy, gentle reading, is much less violent than the first two. (Warning: still a couple of babies killed in front of us.) There’s so much going on that you really need to read the other two first, but this is more of plus for the fans of deep, complex fantasy that the series is aimed at. The ending is complicated, heartbreaking with a little sweet, but ultimately hopeful. Ultimately, the investment in time and emotional energy that reading the Crossroads Trilogy requires is well worth it.

[edited to include the name of the second book in the series 8/19/14]

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Sparrow Hill Road

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Katy K.

Apologies for the quiet, friends – I am just back from a wonderful internet-free vacation. This was not the year where I planned posts ahead to fill my absence – so I’ll just start trying to catch up where I left off.

I very much enjoyed Seanan McGuire’s Velveteen Vs. books, so when I heard from the Book Smugglers that she had a new book out, and further saw that it was on the shelf at the library, I took it right home.

Sparrow Hill RoadSparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire. DAW books, 2014.
This is a series of ghost stories building on the afterlife and legend of Rose Marshall, the Phantom Prom Date, hitchhiking the roads since 1952.

Rose was born on the wrong side of the tracks in tiny Buckley Township, Michigan, and fell as hard for handsome Gary as a sixteen-year-old could. But she was run down on her way to prom by the handsome but evil Bobby Cross, who fuels his immortality with the souls of those he crashes. Now Rose is sweet sixteen forever, using borrowed coats to stay warm and borrow flesh for a night. At the same time, she smells what kind of accidents are coming up and tries to prevent them if she can and guide the souls of the lost in the right direction otherwise. Rose is our guide to the different kinds of supernatural beings that haunt the roads – hitchhikers, homecomers, crossroads ghosts and route witches, as well as the occasional friendly bean sidhe. We explore the magic of well-travelled roads and the sacredness of roadside diners through stories that range from scary to sweet with a good dose of spookiness throughout.

Ghost stories are not really my favorite, and I wouldn’t have read this at all if I hadn’t enjoyed McGuire’s other works so much. Many of the stories worked beautifully for me, and I really enjoyed the magic around roads, diners, and risky bargains made at crossroads at midnight. (“Of course diners are magic!” said my love, when I told him about it.) Some of the stories were a little too gruesome for me, and since I never knew what the next story was going to be like, I stopped reading it at bedtime. Rose herself is a fine character, one who’s had to make peace with her new afterlife and formed a new identity for herself apart from the good, sweet girl she used to be. (There are fairly frequent but mostly inexplicit mentions of sex.) This is another one that was originally published as a series of short stories, and this shows in the storytelling, even as there is an arc that gradually emerges from the seemingly unconnected and decidedly nonlinear stories. I wasn’t sure that the ending quite lined up with where things had been reading, but it was still satisfying overall. I’d recommend it heartily to readers who like ghosts and books tinged with an edge of horror.

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American Born Chinese

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Katy K.

Gene Luen Yang is a well-known graphic novel author. I can reel off a list of five or six books and series he’s written, but until now, hadn’t actually read any of them. I decided to remedy this problem starting with this Printz award-winning book, now included in the reading list of just about any graphic novel course you’d care to take.

American Born ChineseAmerican Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang. First Second, 2006.
American Born Chinese starts off telling three distinct stories. In one, we hear the mythic adventures of the Chinese trickster god, the Monkey King. In another, two Chinese boys, both rejected by the white kids at their school, rather reluctantly make friends, bonding over their shared Asian identity and their love of transformer-style toys. At one point, waiting for his mother at a traditional Chinese store, Jin Wang shows the elderly proprietress his transformer. She tells him, “It’s easy to become anything you wish… so long as you’re willing to forfeit your soul.” In the third story, a blond boy named Danny is mortified when his cousin Chin-Kee comes to visit, insisting on going to high school with him and playing out every horrid Asian stereotype out there, quickly ruining any chances Danny has of social success.

So much I knew going in. And I knew that the stories eventually all tie together. You have to stick in until then, because frankly, the individual stories up until then aren’t all that interesting. (Me being me, I liked the stories of the Monkey King best.) After they come together, they are brilliant. It’s a look at the painful reality of prejudice and the costs on either side of trying to fit in or retain the old culture. One of the things that stuck out the most is how the kids at the schools depicted, from elementary up through high school, are never accepting of the minority kids. I asked my love to read this, because he, unlike me, has experienced being the only Asian kid in school. Happily, it sounds like his experience was much less harsh than those of the characters in the book – and maybe my status as a high school reject owing to painful introversion and nerdiness was more similar to that of the characters in the book. We both still thought it an excellent book, deserving of the awards it’s received.

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12 Spec Fic Books for Teen Boys Starring Girls

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Katy K.

Way back in November, I wrote a list of my top ten fantasy books for middle grade boys starring girls. It’s taken me a while to put this companion list together – but here are a dozen favorite fantasy and science fiction books for teen boys with girls in the lead. Because sometimes we need reminding that a good story is a good story no matter the gender of the protagonist. As my son is too young for most of these yet, I’ve tested them instead on my younger brother (when he was still a teen), as well as on my love. I’d love to hear your favorites, as well!!

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books for Teen Boys Starring Girls
Coldest Girl in ColdtownThe Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black – A girl wakes up the morning after a party only to find that the rest of her high school classmate have been slaughtered by vampires in a book where the romance and the ickiness of vampires meet head on. I read this in print, while my love enjoyed the audiobook.

daughterofsmokeDaughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor – 17-year-old Karou finds herself in the middle of a battle between angels and demons, where the lines of good and evil are nowhere near as clearly drawn as you might think. The first book in the series has more of a romantic angle, while the second (I’ve heard) is even more a war story.

girloffireGirl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson – Overweight and insecure Princess Elisa is sent to marry a king – who soon dies, leaving her not officially queen of a strange country. There’s survival in both desert and jungle and a whole lot of political intrigue in this impressive series.

gracelingGraceling by Kristin Cashore – In a world where having eyes of two different colors means that you have some sort of superpower, Katsa is Graced with the ability to kill. She’s been used by her uncle as an assassin since childhood, but now tries to strike out against him. This one both my love and I read, and gave to his brother.

heroandthecrownThe Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley – Okay, our heroine Aerin is a princess, but one who avoids balls with a passion in favor of dragon hunting, eventually tangling with characters from her country’s mythic past. I’ve read this aloud to both my brother and my love.

howlsmovingHowl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones – Sophie, oldest of three siblings, is convinced she’ll never amount to much. Then she gets turned into an old lady and falls in with the aggravating Wizard Howl and his moving castle.

huntressHuntress by Malinda Lo – Two young women accompany the prince on a perilous journey through dying lands troubled by monsters on the way to meet the Queen of the Xi, who may or may not be disposed to be friendly.

leviathanLeviathan by Scott Westerfeld – A young woman disguises herself as a man in order to join the British Air Services, while young Prince Alek in Austrio-Hungary learns that his parents have just been assassinated. This is a riveting steampunk World War I alternate history – and though we keep it in teen here, my son is addicted to this series.

namingThe Naming by Alison Croggon – 16-year-old Maeryd escapes from slavery and learns to use the magic of the Bards in this fantasy with powerful echoes of Tolkien by Australian poet Croggon.

peaceweaverPeaceweaver by Rebecca Barnhouse – A story set around the legend of Beowulf, as Hild deals with dragons and murderers on the way to her mission as Peaceweaver, tasked with making peace between two warring tribes. This is half of a duology; the hero of The Coming of the Dragon is male.

sabrielSabriel by Garth Nix – Necromancy! And bonus – the audiobook is read by Tim Curry! And a new book in the series coming out this fall! We’ve successfully marketed this series to Picky Teen Readers of our acquaintance.

starcrossedStarcrossed by Elizabeth Bunce – A puzzle mystery with lives at stake, mostly set in a snowbound castle and starring an undercover thief.

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Cupcake Cousins

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Katy K.

I won Cupcake Cousins from the 48 Hour Book Challenge – many thanks to Kate Hannigan, and to Tiffany Gholar, the artist who designed the tote bag that was also part of the prize package. I read Cupcake Cousins almost as soon as I got it, despite my large TBR pile, using the excuse that the other book I was reading at the same time was maybe a little too dark for bedtime reading.

Cupcake CousinsCupcake Cousins by Kate Hannigan. Illustrated by Brooke Boynton Hughes. Disney*Hyperion, 2014.
Cupcake Cousins tells the story of a summer family get-together with wedding in Saugatuk, Michigan, on the shores of Lake Michigan, focusing on the friendship and trials of the 9-year-old best friend cousins Willow and Delia. Willow and her parents, older sister Violet and younger brother Sweet William are from Chicago, while Delia and her parents and older sister live in Detroit. Delia’s father is African-American, making this a family with cousins of different skin colors like that in which my children are growing up.

These cousins are mostly concerned right now because their mother’s younger sister, Aunt Rosie, is getting married. While Violet and Delia’s big sister are being called junior bridesmaids and get to wear lovely dark purple dresses, Willow and Delia are stuck being flower girls and wearing fluffy pink dresses more appropriate to four-year-olds. Willow and Delia, who have been used to doing the baking on the annual family vacations, hope to convince Aunt Rosie to let them bake cupcakes for the wedding instead. But when they arrive there, they find bigger problems – the owner of their cottage has hired a caterer, Cat, who doesn’t want pesky children in her kitchen. Even worse, Delia’s dad is unemployed, and it’s been going on long enough that the kids can tell it’s affecting Delia’s parents’ marriage. In the midst of trying to solve everyone’s troubles and have a good time, the girls are often assigned to Sweet William duty, and he has a habit of wandering off and getting into usually adorable trouble. Can our nine-year-olds save the day???

Well, ok, it’s maybe a tad bit unrealistic that they would be able to solve everyone’s problems and pull off baking feats that challenge many adult bakers. I was having far too much fun to care, however, and I doubt that young readers would care, either. It’s filled with sweet line drawings, and has several yummy-sounding recipes as well. My only slight issue with it was that the cover and the mood seem appropriate for third- or fourth-grade readers, and it’s just a little on the long side for average readers in that range. That hasn’t kept it from going out quite well already here at the library, and I loaned my copy out to a confident almost-fourth grader who looked very excited about it. This is perfect summer vacation reading, with a lovely and much-needed depiction of a loving multi-racial family for today’s children. I’m looking forward to my own daughter being old enough for it.

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Hunt for the Hydra

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Katy K.

Pirates are good, but pirates in space are even better! This one was recommended by several people, including Charlotte at Charlotte’s Library and Stephanie at Views from the Tesseract.

Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the HydraHunt for the Hydra. Jupiter Pirates Book 1. by Jason Fry. Harper Collins Children’s, 2014.
The year is 2893. Twelve-year-old twins Tycho and Yana Hashoone are midshipmen aboard their mother’s spaceship, the Shadow Comet. Captain Diocletia runs a family ship, where other crew members and officers include her husband, First Mate Mavry; her father, the extensively cyborg Grandpa huff, and her older teen son Carlo, as well as assorted unrelated crew members whose families have a history of serving aboard the Hashoone’s vessels. They are privateers, with a letter of marque from the Jovian Union that gives them the right to go after enemy ships, which in their case are mostly those from Earth, as relations between Earth and its former colonies on Jupiter’s moons are not entirely peaceful. All three of the kids on board are in training. competing to see which one would make the best captain in time, which is why the story opens with Tycho in charge of a boarding party onto a potential prize ship.

As nervous as Tycho is about his first boarding party, the real snag comes when a rough-looking man on board the ship claims to be a diplomat, making the ship immune from being taken. Tycho and Yana just know there’s something wrong, a puzzle for them to put together. At the same time, their family takes a job investigating another unsolved mystery, a bunch of missing spaceships. Could the two puzzles be related?

This is a fast-moving and very fun adventure, with strong characters to appeal to both boys and girls, and a setting that’s a nice mix of future space travel and 18th-century piracy. We are so protective of children right now that often in order for children to have any agency in their own stories, the parents have to be done away with somehow, either by dying or being taken captive or some such. While I can’t deny loving a good orphan story, it’s refreshing to have a family where the parents are very much present and competent, but with good reasons for giving their children a lot of independence – even if the two youngest are going even beyond that in their investigations. There’s a lot about the family relationships along with all the outer space and seedy port town adventures, making this appealing for fans of character-driven fiction as well as the more obvious plot-driven fiction fans. At 241 pages, it’s still a little long for my own son to read to himself, though he would love it, but definitely a nice, nonthreatening length for the confident middle grade reader. Book 2, Curse of the Iris is due out in December, and I’m very much looking forward to it.

This series would pair very naturally with the steampunky space series Larklight by Phillip Reeve.

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The Goblin Emperor

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Katy K.

This is the adult fantasy I’ve been hearing the most about this year, and well worth the buzz.

The Goblin EmperorThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. Tor, 2014.
Katherine Addison is a pseudonym for Sarah Monette, whose Melusine I read and enjoyed back when it first came out, though I never went on to the other books in the series. (Why the pseudonym, when she’s already made a name for herself in the same genre, and isn’t keeping it a secret? Inquiring minds want to know…)

In this book, Maia is the despised and exiled fourth son of Varenechibel, Emperor of the elves, by his equally despised third wife, a princess of the goblins. His heritage is clearly visible in his skin, a grey shade in between the white of elves and the black of goblins. Maia’s mother died when he was eight, and his father assigned him an out-of-favor courtier as a guardian, who gave him minimal education.

And then the Emperor and his three older sons are all killed in the crash of the airship the Wisdom of Choharo. Maia is now the emperor, and though no one including himself has ever wanted him to be emperor, he knows that he must claim the throne decisively or be killed. He’s thrust into the various factions at court literally overnight, trying to figure out who might be convinced to be on his side, what the various factions are, and needing as well to arrange his own marriage. We are as confused as Maia as he learns that he must have nohecharei assigned to guard him and edocharei to dress him – and this is just the beginning of his new daily routine. The only thing that Maia is certain of going in is that he will not be his father – he is going to at least try using kindness and justice to keep his crown and his head. Addison never makes him unbelievably, flawlessly good, however – he still loses his temper with his servants, and while he’s clearly interested in lessening the discrimination by race, gender, and class that’s prevalent in elven society, he makes no effort to overcome his prejudice against homosexuality.

This is such good fantasy! We have the traditional elements of very detailed world-building and culture, given a lovely twist with the goblins portrayed not as evil, but a different people and culture historically at odds with the elves. While political fantasy often turns me off by assuming that I want to spend my reading time writing down lists of character names and their loyalties, Addison keeps things a little simpler by telling the story only from Maia’s point of view. The combination of good characters, world building, plot, and depth make for a book that will appeal to a broad range of fantasy fans. I really, really enjoyed it.

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