February 2012
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8. The Naming by Alison Croggon (The Books of...
The Naming is one of those books that starts off weak and gets better about halfway through. I nearly put it down and didn’t come back to it. One of the most irritating things, at least for me, is that the heroine Maerad begins the novel as a slave, but the book goes out of its way to make sure the reader knows she wasn’t raped. Because it is so important that a heroine is virginal,...
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7. Unnatural Issue by Mercedes Lackey
I don’t have much to say: Mercedes Lackey writes straight-up fantasy stories. She writes about magic in interesting ways—I do think that the way magic works in this Elemental Mastersseries is pretty interesting. Each mage has an elemental type, and controls power by bargaining with (or if evil, compelling) creatures of that element. Different types of mages have different strengths and...