sabriel's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:13:23 -0800 60 sabriel's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)]]> 16054217 The #1 New York Times bestselling series finale and sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night

Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. In The Book of Life, Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present—facing new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.]]> 561 Deborah Harkness 0670025593 sabriel 0 to-read 4.15 2014 The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
author: Deborah Harkness
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2014
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]]> Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen sabriel 3 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1814
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)]]> 13368650
Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. Since then the world has a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth-an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.

But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret-one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she's faced with a cling to what she's been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever loved, even if she's lost him forever.

Inspired by Jane Austen's persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.]]> 416 Diana Peterfreund 0062114379 sabriel 0 to-read 3.87 2012 For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)
author: Diana Peterfreund
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average rating: 3.87
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)]]> 12983100 Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.

When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.

Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.

Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?]]> 438 Susan Ee sabriel 3 3.5 stars.

There was too much reliance on ye olde deus ex machina for my liking. This being an Angel story, maybe there is deeper meaning to it and we'll have to see how it plays out. The plot seemed to mirror the first book in some ways, but I missed the dark humour. [spoilers removed]

Bloodthirsty, near undefeatable enemies makes me very nervous. Are there any "good" Angels out there? [spoilers removed] Anyway. It makes me wonder how this can end well. Maybe there'll be a War of the Worlds moment to end all.

Ultimately though, it's the character relationships that that bind me to a story. This family, highly dysfunctional though it is, tugs at my heart and so I'll keep hope alive for them until the end. I'm trying not to think about Penryn/Raffe because I can't let myself wish that wish.]]> 4.24 2013 World After (Penryn & the End of Days, #2)
author: Susan Ee
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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3.5 stars.

There was too much reliance on ye olde deus ex machina for my liking. This being an Angel story, maybe there is deeper meaning to it and we'll have to see how it plays out. The plot seemed to mirror the first book in some ways, but I missed the dark humour. [spoilers removed]

Bloodthirsty, near undefeatable enemies makes me very nervous. Are there any "good" Angels out there? [spoilers removed] Anyway. It makes me wonder how this can end well. Maybe there'll be a War of the Worlds moment to end all.

Ultimately though, it's the character relationships that that bind me to a story. This family, highly dysfunctional though it is, tugs at my heart and so I'll keep hope alive for them until the end. I'm trying not to think about Penryn/Raffe because I can't let myself wish that wish.
]]> <![CDATA[Double Indemnity (The Stonebridge Mysteries, #1)]]> 24689070 214 Maggie Kavanagh 1632163780 sabriel 5 to-read
This isn't Agatha Christie or any traditionally penned mystery novel. If anything, it's the Watson perspective with Sherlock largely out of the picture. Sam isn't a detective, amateur or otherwise, and essentially exists in limbo while working as a landscaper. His struggle to find his footing is as much a part of the story - and rightly so - as the murder.

Thrilled to see that the next book featuring these will be out later this year. Looking forward to it! ]]> 3.83 2015 Double Indemnity (The Stonebridge Mysteries, #1)
author: Maggie Kavanagh
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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Thoroughly enjoyed this well written story about two people - one a mess and adrift in life and the other getting there - who get thrown together because of a terrible event. The tension between them was thick (...), especially when talking about Nathan's training. But they have a lot of baggage between them and Nathan is as much - if not more - of a mystery to Sam as the murder. It was dark at times, but there's a wonderful sprinkling of humour throughout to stop it from getting oppressive.

This isn't Agatha Christie or any traditionally penned mystery novel. If anything, it's the Watson perspective with Sherlock largely out of the picture. Sam isn't a detective, amateur or otherwise, and essentially exists in limbo while working as a landscaper. His struggle to find his footing is as much a part of the story - and rightly so - as the murder.

Thrilled to see that the next book featuring these will be out later this year. Looking forward to it!
]]> <![CDATA[Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)]]> 70947
The ensuing quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice and witch-queens fly through the frozen skies - and where a team of scientists is conducting experiments too horrible to be spoken about.

Lyra overcomes these strange terrors, only to find something yet more perilous waiting for her - something with consequences which may even reach beyond the Northern Lights...]]> 399 Philip Pullman 0590660543 sabriel 4 4.24 1995 Northern Lights (His Dark Materials, #1)
author: Philip Pullman
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Stardust: Being a Romance within the Realms of Faerie]]> 128946 Alternate cover edition can be found here

Young Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful Victoria—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side of the ancient wall that gives their tiny village its name. Beyond that old stone wall, Tristran learns, lies Faerie—where nothing not even a fallen star, is what he imagined.]]> 212 Neil Gaiman 156389470X sabriel 0 to-read 4.30 1999 Stardust: Being a Romance within the Realms of Faerie
author: Neil Gaiman
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.30
book published: 1999
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]]> Frequent Flyers 23587308
There's something for everyone in this mile-high compilation � from a love story born in a blizzard to a steamy encounter spawned by a series of crazy events. For supernatural fiction fans, how about the tale of an airport that's also a portal to another world... or a scheduled flight that takes a detour into an alternate reality?

From an unexpected trip that reignites a twenty year old flame, to a quirky liaison between a ticketing agent and an adorable doctor, Frequent Flyers takes you on a journey that will touch your heart and leave you flying high!]]> 354 Beth Bolden sabriel 0 to-read 3.96 2014 Frequent Flyers
author: Beth Bolden
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2014
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]]> Divergent (Divergent, #1) 8306857 In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

]]> 487 Veronica Roth 0062024027 sabriel 5 4.28 2011 Divergent (Divergent, #1)
author: Veronica Roth
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average rating: 4.28
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]]> <![CDATA[A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)]]> 22055262
Kell was raised in Arnes—Red London—and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see.

Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.

After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure.

Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive.]]> 400 Victoria E. Schwab 0765376458 sabriel 0 to-read 4.04 2015 A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
author: Victoria E. Schwab
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Crown of Crystal Flame (Tairen Soul, #5)]]> 7724257 A Song of Love won her heart.
A Song of Darkness haunted her soul.
A Song in the Dance would seal her fate.

Seers had long foreseen an extraordinary destiny for Ellysetta Baristani. Already she had won the heart of the Fey King—the magnificent Rain, ever her ally, eternally her love. She had saved the offspring of the magical tairen and fought beside her legendary mate against the armies of Eld. But the most powerful—and dangerous—Verse of her Song had yet to be sung.

As the final battle draws nigh and evil tightens its grip upon her soul—will Ellysetta secure the world for Light or plunge it into Darkness for all eternity? As she and Rain fight for each other, side by side, will they find a way to complete their truemate bond and defeat the evil High Mage of Eld before it's too late, or must they make the ultimate sacrifice to save their world?]]> 469 C.L. Wilson 0062018965 sabriel 0 to-read 4.35 2010 Crown of Crystal Flame (Tairen Soul, #5)
author: C.L. Wilson
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average rating: 4.35
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)]]> 26833370 In Regency London, Zacharias Wythe is England's first African Sorcerer Royal. And that's only the first of his problems. He must juggle the conflicting demands of a wayward Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, where a faction schemes to remove him from his position by fair means or foul. He must cope with the Fairy Court refusing to grant Britain the magical resources it needs. And now the British Government is avid to deploy this increasingly scare magic in its war with France. He must also contend with rumors that he murdered his predecessor and guardian, Sir Stephen Wythe. But this task would be easier if Sir Stephen's ghost would just stop following him around. And now he has to deal with something even more outrageous than any of these things: a female magical prodigy.



Ambitious orphan Prunella Gentleman is desperate to escape the school where she has drudged all her life, and a visit by the Sorcerer Royal seems the perfect opportunity. For Prunella has just stumbled upon English magic's greatest discovery in centuries - and she intends to make the most of it.

]]> 416 Zen Cho 1743540434 sabriel 0 to-read 3.80 2015 Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)
author: Zen Cho
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2015
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]]> The Martian 18007564
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error� are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills � and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit � he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

]]> 384 Andy Weir 0804139024 sabriel 0 to-read 4.41 2011 The Martian
author: Andy Weir
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2011
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]]> Saga, Volume 4 23093367
Collects: Saga #19-24.]]> 144 Brian K. Vaughan 1632150778 sabriel 4 4.42 2014 Saga, Volume 4
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> Saga, Book One 22078240 504 Brian K. Vaughan 1632150786 sabriel 5 4.67 2014 Saga, Book One
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Queen of Song and Souls (Tairen Soul, #4)]]> 3354025 Two lovers, two hearts, one soul.
Only joined can they be truly complete.
Only joined can they survive the darkness.

The Fey King Rain and his truemate Ellysetta share a passionate love unrivaled in the history of their world—and a forbidden power that made them outcasts from the Fading Lands. As war looms and the evil mages of Eld threaten to rip their world asunder, they must fight to defend the very kingdom and people who reviled them.

Only by trusting completely in their love—and in themselves—can Rain and Ellysetta hope to defeat the gathering forces of Darkness. But it will take more than the strength of their devotion to endure. They must unlock the secrets of the past and find the courage to embrace the dangerous destiny that awaits them. Only they can save their world, but that victory might cost them their lives.]]> 389 C.L. Wilson 0843960604 sabriel 4 4.25 2009 Queen of Song and Souls (Tairen Soul, #4)
author: C.L. Wilson
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average rating: 4.25
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[King of Sword and Sky (Tairen Soul, #3)]]> 3307144 King of Sword and Sky is the third book in the epic romantic adventure that combines sweeping fantasy with breathtaking paranormal romance. USA Today and New York Times bestseller C. L. Wilson’s magnificent story continues—as the Fey King Rain must risk everything for his truemate Ellysetta, even as he struggles to save his imperiled kingdom with magic, sword, and flame…and by awakening the astonishing dormant inner power that his lady love possesses.]]> 472 C.L. Wilson 0843960590 sabriel 4 4.25 2008 King of Sword and Sky (Tairen Soul, #3)
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average rating: 4.25
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Lady of Light and Shadows (Tairen Soul, #2)]]> 1651313
C. L. Wilson continues the stirring, magical romance of Ellysetta, the woodcutter’s beautiful daughter, and the tormented Fey King Rain, as darkness rises up all around them, determined to destroy their love and their world.]]> 386 C.L. Wilson 0843959789 sabriel 5 4.25 2007 Lady of Light and Shadows (Tairen Soul, #2)
author: C.L. Wilson
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average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[Lord of the Fading Lands (Tairen Soul, #1)]]> 1584974 Once he drove back the darkness.
Once he loved with such passion his name was legend.

Once, driven wild with grief over the murder of his beloved, the majestic Fey King Rain Tairen Soul had laid waste to the world before vanishing into the Fading Lands. Now, a thousand years later, a new threat draws him back into the world—and a new love reawakens the heart he thought long dead.

Ellysetta, a woodcarver’s daughter, calls to Rain in a way no other ever had. Mysterious and magical, her soul beckons him with a compelling, seductive song—and no matter the cost, the wildness in his blood will not be denied.

As an ancient, familiar evil regains its strength, causing centuries-old alliances to crumble and threatening doom for Rain and his people... he must claim his truemate to embrace the destiny woven for them both in the mists of time.]]> 406 C.L. Wilson 0843959770 sabriel 4 3.94 2007 Lord of the Fading Lands (Tairen Soul, #1)
author: C.L. Wilson
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> Saga, Volume 5 25451555
Collects: Saga #25-30.]]> 152 Brian K. Vaughan 1632154382 sabriel 5 4.40 2015 Saga, Volume 5
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[This Book Will Change Your Life]]> 26171428 A new adult romance from Entangled's Embrace imprint...

Take a chance and change your life...

College is where Hannah Gregory plans to follow in her dad's footsteps as a chemistry prodigy-except she bombs her first test. And now her future isn't so certain. Worse, she's not sure she wants it anymore. Salvation comes from an unlikely place-a used bookstore and the sexy Ben Fisher, the passionate college senior who works there.

Ben is trapped in a life mapped out for him. Trapped in a future career as a lawyer to make his father happy. Trapped pursuing a girl he doesn't even like because she fits into a world he doesn't want but can't escape. But then he meets the beautiful and quirky Hannah. And for the first time, he knows what it means to truly want something.

So he gives in to being her friend. Then to wanting her. Then to kissing her. But freedom comes with a cost, and it isn't long before their carefully planned lives begin to fall apart...]]> 232 Amanda Weaver 1633754316 sabriel 0 to-read 3.78 2015 This Book Will Change Your Life
author: Amanda Weaver
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> <![CDATA[Inner Sanctum (The Stonebridge Mysteries, #2)]]> 26097265 The Stonebridge Book Two

Six months into a relationship, things have heated up between political blogger Sam Flynn and FBI Special Agent Nathan Walker. Though Sam is happy with Nathan and proud of his own sobriety, he's anxious about what their future holds. Things are heating up in Stonebridge, Connecticut, as a series of deadly fires puts the community on edge and eventually threatens Sam's comatose brother. As Halloween approaches, fears rise that the arsonist will strike again.

When Sam encounters the main suspect, seventeen-year-old orphan Damon Blake, he's not sure what to do. Obstruction might land him in jail, but he is increasingly skeptical of Damon’s guilt. He takes matters into his own hands and investigates, but doing so means keeping Damon’s whereabouts a secret from Nathan and the police. Meanwhile, Nathan wonders what Sam is hiding and grapples with insecurities of his own. Sam wants to confide in Nathan, and Nathan wants to trust Sam, but they discover that negotiating new love can be as dangerous as solving crime.]]> 204 Maggie Kavanagh 1634764056 sabriel 0 to-read 4.27 2015 Inner Sanctum (The Stonebridge Mysteries, #2)
author: Maggie Kavanagh
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)]]> 338691
But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets...]]> 293 Louise Penny 0312948557 sabriel 0 to-read 3.86 2005 Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
author: Louise Penny
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[When a Scot Ties the Knot (Castles Ever After, #3)]]> 23587120
A Scottish sweetheart. One who was handsome and honorable and devoted to her, but conveniently never around. Maddie poured her heart into writing the imaginary Captain MacKenzie letter after letter . . . and by pretending to be devastated when he was (not really) killed in battle, she managed to avoid the pressures of London society entirely.

Until years later, when this kilted Highland lover of her imaginings shows up in the flesh. The real Captain Logan MacKenzie arrives on her doorstep—handsome as anything, but not entirely honorable. He's wounded, jaded, in possession of her letters . . . and ready to make good on every promise Maddie never expected to keep.]]> 390 Tessa Dare 0062349031 sabriel 0 to-read 3.87 2015 When a Scot Ties the Knot (Castles Ever After, #3)
author: Tessa Dare
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.87
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]]> <![CDATA[The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)]]> 17730586 A lord in danger. A magician in turmoil. A snowball in hell.

Exiled to China for twenty years, Lucien Vaudrey never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, it seems the new Lord Crane has inherited an earldom. He’s also inherited his family’s enemies. He needs magical assistance, fast. He doesn't expect it to turn up angry.

Magician Stephen Day has good reason to hate Crane’s family. Unfortunately, it’s his job to deal with supernatural threats. Besides, the earl is unlike any aristocrat he’s ever met, with the tattoos, the attitude... and the way Crane seems determined to get him into bed. That’s definitely unusual.

Soon Stephen is falling hard for the worst possible man, at the worst possible time. But Crane’s dangerous appeal isn't the only thing rendering Stephen powerless. Evil pervades the house, a web of plots is closing round Crane, and if Stephen can’t find a way through it—they’re both going to die.


Warning: Contains hot m/m sex between a deeply inappropriate earl and a very confused magician, dark plots in a magical version of Victorian England, family values (not the good kind), and a lot of swearing.]]> 200 K.J. Charles 1619215764 sabriel 0 to-read 4.10 2013 The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
author: K.J. Charles
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average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[American Gods (American Gods, #1)]]> 4407
Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...

This is the author's preferred text, never before published in the UK, and is about 12,000 words longer than the previous UK edition.

]]> 635 Neil Gaiman sabriel 0 to-read 4.10 2001 American Gods (American Gods, #1)
author: Neil Gaiman
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 2001
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]]> Bossypants 9476337
She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.

(Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!)

]]> 277 Tina Fey 0316056863 sabriel 0 to-read 3.90 2011 Bossypants
author: Tina Fey
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.90
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]]> Uprooted 22544764 “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.�

Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.

Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.

The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows�everyone knows—that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.

But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.]]> 438 Naomi Novik 0804179034 sabriel 0 to-read 4.02 2015 Uprooted
author: Naomi Novik
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average rating: 4.02
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]]> <![CDATA[Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London #2)]]> 10381200
Body and soul. They’re also what Peter will risk as he investigates a pattern of similar deaths in and around Soho. With the help of his superior officer, Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, the last registered wizard in England, and the assistance of beautiful jazz aficionado Simone Fitzwilliam, Peter will uncover a deadly magical menace—one that leads right to his own doorstep and to the squandered promise of a young jazz musician: a talented trumpet player named Richard “Lord� Grant—otherwise known as Peter’s dear old dad.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780345524591]]> 375 Ben Aaronovitch sabriel 0 to-read 4.01 2011 Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London #2)
author: Ben Aaronovitch
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2011
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]]> <![CDATA[The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral, #1)]]> 10485751
Khamsin Coruscate, Princess of Summerlea and summoner of Storms, has spent her life exiled to the shadows of her father's palace. Reviled by her father, marriage to Wintercraig's icy king was supposed to be a terrible punishment, but instead offers Kham her first taste of freedom—and her first taste of overwhelming passion.

As fierce, indomitable Wynter weathers even Khamsin's wildest storms, surprising her with a tenderness she never expected, Kham wants more than Wynter's passion—she yearns for his love. But the power of the Ice Heart is growing, dangerous forces are gathering, and a devastating betrayal puts Khamsin and Wynter to the ultimate test.]]> 594 C.L. Wilson 0062018973 sabriel 5 3.97 2014 The Winter King (Weathermages of Mystral, #1)
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average rating: 3.97
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rating: 5
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I picked this up because I'm a sucker for elemental magic. It's an old trope and I fully expected one or both protagonists to drive me nuts within the first 10 pages. Well, colour me pleasantly surprised. Khamsin is no shrinking violet and showed backbone when it counted & Wynter had a wonderful touch of softness/ kindness. Thoroughly enjoyed this and am looking forward to the next in the series.
]]> Station Eleven 20170404 An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.]]> 333 Emily St. John Mandel 0385353308 sabriel 0 4.05 2014 Station Eleven
author: Emily St. John Mandel
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[She Tempts the Duke (The Lost Lords of Pembrook, #1)]]> 11785513
Sebastian Easton always vowed he would avenge his stolen youth and title. Now back in London, the rightful Duke of Keswick—returning from battle a wounded, hardened, changed man—cannot forget the brave girl who once rescued him and his brothers from certain death.

Lady Mary Wynne-Jones paid dearly for helping the imprisoned young Lords of Pembrook, and she remembers well the promise she made to Sebastian all those years ago: to meet him once more in the abbey ruins where they shared a bold, forbidden kiss. While Mary is betrothed now to another, a friendship forged with dark secrets cannot be ignored. Unexpected passion soon burns dangerously between them, tempting Sebastian to abandon his quest for retribution to fight for a love that could once again set him free.]]> 355 Lorraine Heath 0062022466 sabriel 4 3.83 2012 She Tempts the Duke (The Lost Lords of Pembrook, #1)
author: Lorraine Heath
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average rating: 3.83
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rating: 4
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]]> Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1) 24473763 The Prince of no value
Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined.

The noblewoman of no importance
Ildiko, niece of the Gauri king, has always known her only worth to the royal family lay in a strategic marriage. Resigned to her fate, she is horrified to learn that her intended groom isn’t just a foreign aristocrat but the younger prince of a people neither familiar nor human. Bound to her new husband, Ildiko will leave behind all she’s known to embrace a man shrouded in darkness but with a soul forged by light.

Two people brought together by the trappings of duty and politics will discover they are destined for each other, even as the powers of a hostile kingdom scheme to tear them apart.]]> 297 Grace Draven sabriel 0 to-read 3.98 2015 Radiance (Wraith Kings, #1)
author: Grace Draven
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]]> <![CDATA[The Suffragette Scandal (Brothers Sinister, #4)]]> 17343236 An idealistic suffragette...

Miss Frederica "Free" Marshall has put her heart and soul into her newspaper, known for its outspoken support of women's rights. Naturally, her enemies are intent on destroying her business and silencing her for good. Free refuses to be at the end of her rope... but she needs more rope, and she needs it now.

...a jaded scoundrel...

Edward Clark's aristocratic family abandoned him to die in a war-torn land, so he survived the only way he could: by becoming a rogue and a first-class forger. When the same family that left him for dead vows to ruin Miss Marshall, he offers his help. So what if he has to lie to her? She's only a pawn to use in his revenge.

...and a scandal seven years in the making.

But the irrepressible Miss Marshall soon enchants Edward. By the time he realizes that his cynical heart is hers, it's too late. The only way to thwart her enemies is to reveal his scandalous past... and once the woman he loves realizes how much he's lied to her, he'll lose her forever.]]> 260 Courtney Milan 1937248267 sabriel 0 to-read 4.05 2014 The Suffragette Scandal (Brothers Sinister, #4)
author: Courtney Milan
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]]> <![CDATA[Something Real (Something Real, #1)]]> 15789443
Seventeen-year-old Bonnie� Baker has grown up on TV—she and her twelve siblings are the stars of one-time hit reality show Baker’s Dozen. Since the show’s cancellation and the scandal surrounding it, Bonnie� has tried to live a normal life, under the radar and out of the spotlight. But it’s about to fall apart…because Baker’s Dozen is going back on the air. Bonnie™’s mom and the show’s producers won’t let her quit and soon the life she has so carefully built for herself, with real friends (and maybe even a real boyfriend), is in danger of being destroyed by the show. Bonnie� needs to do something drastic if her life is ever going to be her own—even if it means being more exposed than ever before.]]> 413 Heather Demetrios sabriel 0 to-read 3.91 2014 Something Real (Something Real, #1)
author: Heather Demetrios
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average rating: 3.91
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]]> <![CDATA[Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)]]> 93575 501 Dorothy L. Sayers 0061043494 sabriel 5 4.20 1935 Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
author: Dorothy L. Sayers
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average rating: 4.20
book published: 1935
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)]]> 116971
Dramatised by Alistair Beaton for BBC Radio 4 with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Sarah Badel as Harriet Vane and Peter Jones as Bunter. It was first broadcast from 2 January to 7 February 1983.

2 CDs. 2 hrs 25 mins.]]> 409 Dorothy L. Sayers 0061043516 sabriel 0 to-read 4.23 1937 Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
author: Dorothy L. Sayers
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average rating: 4.23
book published: 1937
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]]> <![CDATA[Miss Wonderful (Carsington Brothers, #1)]]> 425374
Upon arriving, Alistair, a famous war hero and eligible bachelor, finds everyone couldn't be nicer, everyone except for respectable, practical, spinsterish Mirabel Oldridge. The last thing Mirabel wants is for her tranquil little corner of England to be destroyed by a noisy, nasty canal, and she is prepared to use every weapon at her disposal--including her disheveled coiffure and unstylish wardrobe--to stop Alistair.]]> 352 Loretta Chase sabriel 4 4.5 stars]]> 3.67 2004 Miss Wonderful (Carsington Brothers, #1)
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Strong and resilient heroine and a hero who doesn't underestimate her. Magic.
4.5 stars
]]> <![CDATA[Mr. Impossible (Carsington Brothers, #2)]]> 132606 Alternate cover found here.

Impossible
Rupert Carsington, fourth son of the Earl of Hargate, is his aristocratic family's favorite disaster. He is irresistibly handsome, shockingly masculine, and irretrievably reckless, and wherever he goes, trouble follows. Still, Rupert's never met an entanglement—emotional or otherwise—he couldn't escape. Until now.

Outrageous
Now he's in Egypt, stranded in the depths of Cairo's most infamous prison, and his only way out is to accept a beautiful widow's dangerous proposal. Scholar Daphne Pembroke wants him to rescue her brother, who's been kidnapped by a rival seeking a fabled treasure. Their partnership is strictly business: She'll provide the brains, he the brawn. Simple enough, in theory.

Inevitable
Blame it on the sun or the blazing desert heat, but as tensions flare, and inhibitions melt, the most disciplined of women and the most reckless of men are about to clash in the most impossibly irresistible way.

]]> 320 Loretta Chase sabriel 4 4.5 stars]]> 3.95 2005 Mr. Impossible (Carsington Brothers, #2)
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Take one intelligent, no-nonsense heroine, add a charming and witty hero, and set the whole thing in 19th century Eygpt. What's not to love?
4.5 stars
]]> <![CDATA[Darling Beast (Maiden Lane, #7)]]> 19271097
Falsely accused of murder and mute from a near-fatal beating, Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne has escaped from Bedlam. With the Crown's soldiers at his heels, he finds refuge in the ruins of a pleasure garden, toiling as a simple gardener. But when a vivacious young woman moves in, he's quickly driven to distraction . . .

A DESPERATE WOMAN . . .

London's premier actress, Lily Stump, is down on her luck when she's forced to move into a scorched theatre with her maid and small son. But she and her tiny family aren't the only inhabitants-a silent, hulking beast of a man also calls the charred ruins home. Yet when she catches him reading her plays, Lily realizes there's more to this man than meets the eye.

OUT OF ASH, DESIRE FLARES

Though scorching passion draws them together, Apollo knows that Lily is keeping secrets. When his past catches up with him, he's forced to make a choice: his love for Lily . . . or the explosive truth that will set him free.]]> 321 Elizabeth Hoyt 1455586307 sabriel 4 3.87 2014 Darling Beast (Maiden Lane, #7)
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]]> <![CDATA[Ten Things I Love About You (Bevelstoke, #3)]]> 6950445
1. Sebastian Grey is a devilishly handsome rogue with a secret.

2. Annabel Winslow's family voted her The Winslow Most Likely to Speak Her Mind and The Winslow Most Likely to Fall Asleep in Church.

3. Sebastian's uncle is the Earl of Newbury, and if he dies without siring an heir, Sebastian inherits everything.

4. Lord Newbury detests Sebastian and will stop at nothing to prevent this from happening.

5. Lord Newbury has decided that Annabel is the answer to all of his problems.

6. Annabel does not want to marry Lord Newbury, especially when she finds out he once romanced her grandmother.

7 is shocking, 8 is delicious, and 9 is downright wicked, all of which lead the way to

10. Happily. Ever. After.]]> 377 Julia Quinn 0061491896 sabriel 4 3.97 2010 Ten Things I Love About You (Bevelstoke, #3)
author: Julia Quinn
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> <![CDATA[Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)]]> 6101138 This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780007230181

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?]]> 653 Hilary Mantel sabriel 0 to-read 3.90 2009 Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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]]> Saga, Volume 1 15704307
Collects: Saga #1-6.]]> 160 Brian K. Vaughan 1607066017 sabriel 0 to-read 4.16 2012 Saga, Volume 1
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]]> <![CDATA[Sweet Disorder (Lively St. Lemeston, #1)]]> 18046681 Politics can make spectacular bedfellows�

Prickly newspaperman’s widow Phoebe Sparks has vowed never to marry again. Unfortunately, the election in Lively St. Lemeston is hotly contested, and the little town’s charter gives Phoebe the right to make her husband a voter—if she had one.

The Honorable Nicholas Dymond has vowed never to get involved in his family's aristocratic politicking. But now his army career is over for good, his leg and his self-confidence both shattered in the war. Helping his little brother win an election could be just what the doctor ordered.

So Nick decamps to the country, under strict orders to marry Phoebe off to somebody before the polls open. He’s intrigued by the lovely widow from the moment she shuts the door in his face.

Phoebe is determined not to be persuaded by the handsome earl’s son, no matter how charming he is. But when disaster strikes her young sister, she is forced to consider selling her vote—and her hand—to the highest bidder.

As election intrigue grows, Phoebe and Nick are brought face to face with their own deepest desires and forced to decide which vows are worth keeping, and which must be broken...

Contains elections, confections, and a number of erections.]]> 321 Rose Lerner sabriel 0 to-read 3.71 2014 Sweet Disorder (Lively St. Lemeston, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)]]> 18666047
But first he must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea itself - all with only one good hand. Born a weakling in the eyes of a hard, cold world, he cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he has sharpened his mind to a deadly edge.

Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast, he finds they can help him more than any noble could. Even so, Yarvi's path may end as it began - in twists, traps and tragedy...]]> 336 Joe Abercrombie 0804178321 sabriel 0 to-read 3.96 2014 Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)
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]]> What Alice Forgot 6469165
Alice is twenty-nine. She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house. She’s newly engaged to the wonderful Nick and is pregnant with her first baby.

There’s just one problem.
All that was ten years ago �

Alice has slipped in a step aerobics class, hit her head and lost a decade. Now she’s a grown-up, bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn’t speaking to her. This is her life but not as she knows it.

Clearly Alice has made some terrible mistakes.
Just how much can happen in a decade?

Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be?]]> 487 Liane Moriarty 0141043768 sabriel 0 to-read 4.06 2010 What Alice Forgot
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]]> <![CDATA[The Drowning City (The Necromancer Chronicles, #1)]]> 6296885
For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends and her duties, and the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city, the more intrigue she uncovers -- even the dead are plotting.

As the waters rise and the dams crack, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the city she came to save.]]> 351 Amanda Downum 0316069043 sabriel 0 to-read 3.41 2009 The Drowning City (The Necromancer Chronicles, #1)
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]]> Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1) 15790894 That is, until she just gets a job on a tiny trade ship with a nasty reputation for surprises. The Glorious Fool isn't misnamed: it likes to get into trouble, so much so that one year of security work under its captain is equal to five years everywhere else. With odds like that, Devi knows she's found the perfect way to get the jump on the next part of her Plan. But the Fool doesn't give up its secrets without a fight, and one year on this ship might be more than even Devi can handle.]]> 320 Rachel Bach 0316221112 sabriel 0 to-read 3.92 2013 Fortune's Pawn (Paradox, #1)
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rabbit Back Literature Society]]> 18367594 352 Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen 1908968982 sabriel 0 to-read 3.44 2006 The Rabbit Back Literature Society
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average rating: 3.44
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]]> The Winter Sea (Slains, #1) 3392089
In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown.

Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.

But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth-the ultimate betrayal-that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her...

Please note: This novel has also been published under a different title: Sophia's Secret.

Please note, this title is the original recording, which is now known as Sophia's Secret

©2010 Susanna Kearsley (P)2011 Audible, Inc.]]> 527 Susanna Kearsley 0749080973 sabriel 0 to-read 4.08 2008 The Winter Sea (Slains, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)]]> 22007852 Your presence is requested at romantic Twill Castle for the wedding of Miss Clio Whitmore and ... and ...?

After eight years of waiting for Piers Brandon, the wandering Marquess of Granville, to set a wedding date, Clio Whitmore has had enough. She's inherited a castle, scraped together some pride, and made plans to break her engagement.

Not if Rafe Brandon can help it. A ruthless prizefighter and notorious rake, Rafe is determined that Clio will marry his brother—even if he has to plan the dratted wedding himself.

So how does a hardened fighter cure a reluctant bride's cold feet?
â—� He starts with flowers. A wedding can't have too many flowers. Or harps. Or cakes.
� He lets her know she'll make a beautiful, desirable bride—and tries not to picture her as his.
â—� He doesn't kiss her.
â—� If he kisses her, he definitely doesn't kiss her again.
â—� When all else fails, he puts her in a stunning gown. And vows not to be nearby when the gown comes off.
� And no matter what—he doesn't fall in disastrous, hopeless love with the one woman he can never call his own.]]> 390 Tessa Dare sabriel 0 to-read 4.05 2014 Say Yes to the Marquess (Castles Ever After, #2)
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]]> Making Faces 18301124
Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl's love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior's love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.]]> 405 Amy Harmon 1301673870 sabriel 0 to-read 4.40 2013 Making Faces
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average rating: 4.40
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]]> <![CDATA[The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever (Bevelstoke, #1)]]> 110387 2 March 1810... Today, I fell in love.

At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. And even at ten, Miranda learned to accept the expectations society held for her—until the afternoon when Nigel Bevelstoke, the handsome and dashing Viscount Turner, solemnly kissed her hand and promised her that one day she would grow into herself, that one day she would be as beautiful as she already was smart. And even at ten, Miranda knew she would love him forever.

But the years that followed were as cruel to Turner as they were kind to Miranda. She is as intriguing as the viscount boldly predicted on that memorable day—while he is a lonely, bitter man, crushed by a devastating loss. But Miranda has never forgotten the truth she set down on paper all those years earlier—and she will not allow the love that is her destiny to slip lightly through her fingers...]]> 373 Julia Quinn 0061230839 sabriel 3 2.5 stars<br /> 3.85 2007 The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever (Bevelstoke, #1)
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2.5 stars

]]> <![CDATA[What Happens in London (Bevelstoke, #2)]]> 5500109
When Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbor may have killed his fiancee, she doesn't believe it for a second, but, still, how can she help spying on him, just to be sure? So she stakes out a spot near her bedroom window, cleverly concealed by curtains, watches, and waits... and discovers a most intriguing man, who is definitely up to something.

Sir Harry Valentine works for the boring branch of the War Office, translating documents vital to national security. He's not a spy, but he's had all the training, and when a gorgeous blonde begins to watch him from her window, he is instantly suspicious. But just when he decides that she's nothing more than an annoyingly nosy debutante, he discovers that she might be engaged to a foreign prince, who might be plotting against England. And when Harry is roped into spying on Olivia, he discovers that he might be falling for her himself...]]> 372 Julia Quinn 0061491888 sabriel 4 4.00 2009 What Happens in London (Bevelstoke, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Scandalous Desires (Maiden Lane, #3)]]> 11374025 Can a pirate learn that the only true treasure lies in a woman's heart?

Widowed Silence Hollingbrook is impoverished, lovely, and kind--and nine months ago she made a horrible mistake. She went to a river pirate for help in saving her husband and in the process made a bargain that cost her her marriage. That night wounded her so terribly that she hides in the foundling home she helps run with her brother. Except now that same river pirate is back...and he's asking for her help.

"Charming" Mickey O'Connor is the most ruthless river pirate in London. Devastatingly handsome and fearsomely intelligent, he clawed his way up through London's criminal underworld. Mickey has no use for tender emotions like compassion and love, and he sees people as pawns to be manipulated. And yet he's never been able to forget the naive captain's wife who came to him for help and spent one memorable night in his bed...talking.

When his bastard baby girl was dumped in his lap--her mother having died--Mickey couldn't resist the Machiavellian urge to leave the baby on Silence's doorstep. The baby would be hidden from his enemies and he'd also bind Silence to him by her love for his daughter.]]> 393 Elizabeth Hoyt sabriel 4 4.10 2011 Scandalous Desires (Maiden Lane, #3)
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average rating: 4.10
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)]]> 16160797 456 Robert Galbraith 0316206849 sabriel 0 to-read 3.88 2013 The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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]]> All the Light We Cannot See 18143977
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here]]> 544 Anthony Doerr 1476746583 sabriel 0 to-read 4.31 2014 All the Light We Cannot See
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]]> The God Eaters 613268 448 Jesse Hajicek 1847288650 sabriel 0 to-read 4.11 2006 The God Eaters
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]]> <![CDATA[The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)]]> 186074
The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature.

A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.]]> 662 Patrick Rothfuss 075640407X sabriel 4
The magic system here is fantastic. I love the idea of sympathy and the connections between things. Names having power is an established fantasy trope and I like how it is introduced here. The Chandrian and Amyr storyline was very intriguing and I'm looking forward to the final unravel.

All in all an interesting bildungsroman.]]> 4.52 2007 The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
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average rating: 4.52
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rating: 4
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The juxtaposition of Kote [spoilers removed] and teenage Kvothe was the most interesting part of the story for me because the difference is so glaring. At 15, he's smarter than average, driven, and reckless. I thought his reactions and interactions were both age and circumstance appropriate. Devi was the most interesting female character. Denna... was mostly frustrating to me, but perhaps there's more there, too.

The magic system here is fantastic. I love the idea of sympathy and the connections between things. Names having power is an established fantasy trope and I like how it is introduced here. The Chandrian and Amyr storyline was very intriguing and I'm looking forward to the final unravel.

All in all an interesting bildungsroman.
]]> Failure to Navigate 23262149
There is a difference between excuse and explanation. No one knows this better than Catherine Sellers as she recounts the story of her relationship with Thomas Christie to their child.

Failure to Navigate is a fictitious re-telling of a true story inspired by personal letters, authentic medical documents, and verbal accounts from those who have survived. With the late1960s and early 1970s as a backdrop, Catherine and Thomas's romance begins in a whirlwind of underground parties, fast cars, and drug-fueled nights. Things turn dark as Thomas sinks deeper and deeper into his mental illness and Catherine tries to navigate the emotion and violence that comes with it.

The pendulous back-and-forth nature of their relationship is as extreme as the thoughts in Thomas's mind, swinging between the sweetest, tenderest moments of young love to the erratic brutality of abuse. Though he yearns to be “a good, good man,� Thomas's attempts at redemption are no match for the depth of his sins.

Thomas's first-hand account and Catherine's perspective from both then and now together reveal the details of their equally sordid and sweet history, bringing into question the black-and-white nature of good versus evil and just how blurry the line between the two can be.]]> 359 Kris Leavitt sabriel 0 to-read 4.32 2015 Failure to Navigate
author: Kris Leavitt
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1)]]> 74270 479 Lynn Flewelling 0553575422 sabriel 0 to-read 4.09 1996 Luck in the Shadows (Nightrunner, #1)
author: Lynn Flewelling
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Perilous Sea (The Elemental Trilogy, #2)]]> 20359719
Soon after arriving at school, though, Titus makes a shocking discovery, one that makes him question everything he previously believed about their mission. Faced with this devastating realization, Iolanthe is forced to come to terms with her new role, while Titus must choose between following his mother's prophecies—and forging a divergent path to an unknowable future.]]> 414 Sherry Thomas 0062329383 sabriel 5 ""What can I say?" she said, her voice growing fainter. "This damsel loves rescuing princes in distress.""

Second installment of the Burning Sky trilogy and I continue to love the characters and mythology. Particularly loved that the world introduced in the first book was expanded so beautifully. The writing is top notch as always, the plot felt fresh and didn't suffer from second-book-itis. I'm looking forward to the conclusion!
4.5 stars]]> 4.12 2014 The Perilous Sea (The Elemental Trilogy, #2)
author: Sherry Thomas
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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""What can I say?" she said, her voice growing fainter. "This damsel loves rescuing princes in distress.""

Second installment of the Burning Sky trilogy and I continue to love the characters and mythology. Particularly loved that the world introduced in the first book was expanded so beautifully. The writing is top notch as always, the plot felt fresh and didn't suffer from second-book-itis. I'm looking forward to the conclusion!
4.5 stars
]]> Allegiant (Divergent, #3) 10616322
But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.

Told from a riveting dual perspective, ALLEGIANT, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the DIVERGENT series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in DIVERGENT and INSURGENT.]]> 526 Veronica Roth 0007444117 sabriel 1


At the end of Insurgent, we are lead to believe that the "real" world outside the fence is in turmoil and needs the "divergent" population to save it. Guess what? Apparently it wasn't the whole truth. It's only fair to wait, then, to hear just what the truth is. Well, too bad, because it doesn't look like anyone actually knows.

The population of the city, with it's factions, the factionless is - apparently - set up as a means of gradually getting back to a genetically pure "divergent" people. I say "apparently" because one would think that the the appearance of a divergent would signal the end of that person's tenure in the experiment city. But, no. While a handful are smuggled out, most are left in the melting pot to live in fear until they die or are killed. Presumably to go forth and create more divergent. Right? You'd think life would somehow work out easier for these chosen ones. Instead, the Abnegation are given THAT video to secret away and told to track the number of divergent. Then, the researchers aid others in the wholesale slaughter of the Abnegation. Huh? Yeah.

Maybe we are meant to believe that the researchers are the evil overlords, the root cause of all the problems, and utterly deserving of their fate at the end. This is disappointing, particularly given the setup in book 2 suggesting that not everyone is all good or all evil. Are we really meant to accept that wiping the memories of one batch of people solved all the problems? The very Disney feel (Disney isn't shy of character death either) of this disappoints me. It's too simplistic and lacking in the kind of philosophical discussion that the situation demands.

Genetic purity and it cousins are old sci-fi tropes. Done well, it makes you think and question and feel distinctly uncomfortable. Done badly, the entire message is so lost, it may as well be nonexistent. Overall, this series has been like finding a great new dish to try: it sounds delicious, the first taste makes you happy about choosing it, then you feel the kick but ignore it because you still see the potential, then your entire mouth is on fire. Disappointing, wishing you'd never gone there in the first place, lamenting what might have been.

]]> 3.55 2013 Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
author: Veronica Roth
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2013
rating: 1
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WARNING: Here be spoilers



At the end of Insurgent, we are lead to believe that the "real" world outside the fence is in turmoil and needs the "divergent" population to save it. Guess what? Apparently it wasn't the whole truth. It's only fair to wait, then, to hear just what the truth is. Well, too bad, because it doesn't look like anyone actually knows.

The population of the city, with it's factions, the factionless is - apparently - set up as a means of gradually getting back to a genetically pure "divergent" people. I say "apparently" because one would think that the the appearance of a divergent would signal the end of that person's tenure in the experiment city. But, no. While a handful are smuggled out, most are left in the melting pot to live in fear until they die or are killed. Presumably to go forth and create more divergent. Right? You'd think life would somehow work out easier for these chosen ones. Instead, the Abnegation are given THAT video to secret away and told to track the number of divergent. Then, the researchers aid others in the wholesale slaughter of the Abnegation. Huh? Yeah.

Maybe we are meant to believe that the researchers are the evil overlords, the root cause of all the problems, and utterly deserving of their fate at the end. This is disappointing, particularly given the setup in book 2 suggesting that not everyone is all good or all evil. Are we really meant to accept that wiping the memories of one batch of people solved all the problems? The very Disney feel (Disney isn't shy of character death either) of this disappoints me. It's too simplistic and lacking in the kind of philosophical discussion that the situation demands.

Genetic purity and it cousins are old sci-fi tropes. Done well, it makes you think and question and feel distinctly uncomfortable. Done badly, the entire message is so lost, it may as well be nonexistent. Overall, this series has been like finding a great new dish to try: it sounds delicious, the first taste makes you happy about choosing it, then you feel the kick but ignore it because you still see the potential, then your entire mouth is on fire. Disappointing, wishing you'd never gone there in the first place, lamenting what might have been.


]]> <![CDATA[Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)]]> 13618440 What power can bruise the sky?

Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera's rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her.

When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited—not in love, but in a tentative alliance against their common enemy. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. And, perhaps, for themselves.

But with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters?

The New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy comes to a stunning conclusion as—from the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond—humans, chimaera, and seraphim strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.]]> 613 Laini Taylor 0316134074 sabriel 3 [spoilers removed]
Hope we see more from this world!
3.5 stars ]]> 4.12 2014 Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3)
author: Laini Taylor
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2014/07/21
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A satisfying end to the storyline and seeds sown for the next. The fine print about the world building was fantastic in that way that makes the series even better.
[spoilers removed]
Hope we see more from this world!
3.5 stars
]]> <![CDATA[Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption]]> 8664353
The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he'd been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.

Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.]]> 475 Laura Hillenbrand 1400064163 sabriel 0 to-read 4.38 2010 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
author: Laura Hillenbrand
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2010
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]]> <![CDATA[Isla and the Happily Ever After (Anna and the French Kiss, #3)]]> 9627755 Love ignites in the City That Never Sleeps, but can it last?

Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to confront the challenges every young couple must face, including family drama, uncertainty about their college futures, and the very real possibility of being apart.

Featuring cameos from fan-favorites Anna, Étienne, Lola, and Cricket, this sweet and sexy story of true love—set against the stunning backdrops of New York City, Paris, and Barcelona—is a swoonworthy conclusion to Stephanie Perkins’s beloved series.]]> 339 Stephanie Perkins 0525425632 sabriel 4 4.5 stars ]]> 3.99 2014 Isla and the Happily Ever After (Anna and the French Kiss, #3)
author: Stephanie Perkins
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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Sweet, funny, poignant - loved it!
4.5 stars
]]> <![CDATA[My Beautiful Enemy (The Heart of Blade Duology, #2)]]> 20644868 In this spellbinding romance by the acclaimed author of The Luckiest Lady in London, a beautiful and cunning woman meets her match in a man just as dangerous and seductive as she is, putting both her heart and her future at risk�

Hidden beneath Catherine Blade’s uncommon beauty is a daring that matches any man’s. Although this has taken her far in the world, she still doesn’t have the one thing she craves: the freedom to live life as she chooses. Finally given the chance to earn her independence, who should be standing in her way but the only man she’s ever loved, the only person to ever betray her.

Despite the scars Catherine left him, Captain Leighton Atwood has never been able to forget the mysterious girl who once so thoroughly captivated him. When she unexpectedly reappears in his life, he refuses to get close to her. But he cannot deny the yearning she reignites in his heart.

Their reunion, however, plunges them into a web of espionage, treachery, and deadly foes. With everything at stake, Leighton and Catherine are forced to work together to find a way out. If they are ever to find safety and happiness, they must first forgive and learn to trust each other again…]]> 304 Sherry Thomas 0425268896 sabriel 0 to-read 3.89 2014 My Beautiful Enemy (The Heart of Blade Duology, #2)
author: Sherry Thomas
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2014
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hidden Blade (The Heart of Blade Duology, #1)]]> 22751852
Half a world away in England, a young boy's idyllic summer on the Sussex downs implodes with the firing of a single bullet. Torn from his family, he becomes the hostage of a urbanely sadistic uncle. He dreams of escaping to find his beloved friend--but the friend is in China, ten thousand miles away.

The girl trains to be deadly. The boy flees across continents. They do not know it yet, but their lives are already inextricably bound together, and will collide one fateful night when they least expect it.

CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON meets DOWNTON ABBEY, this remarkable tale of friendship, danger, and coming of age will stay with you long after you have finished the last page.

A prequel to MY BEAUTIFUL ENEMY.]]> 261 Sherry Thomas 1631280066 sabriel 4 3.94 2014 The Hidden Blade (The Heart of Blade Duology, #1)
author: Sherry Thomas
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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A beautiful tale that follows the formative years of the protagonists from My Beautiful Enemy. This is essentially YA, the character voices are well captured and there are many touching moments throughout. Looking for to the next!
]]> <![CDATA[The Vintner's Luck (Vintner's Luck, #1)]]> 157387 The Vintner's Luck explores a decidedly unorthodox love story as Sobran eventually comes to love and be loved by both Xas and the young Countess de Valday, his friend and employer at the neighboring chateau.
]]> 284 Elizabeth Knox 0312264100 sabriel 0 to-read 3.89 1998 The Vintner's Luck (Vintner's Luck, #1)
author: Elizabeth Knox
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1998
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]]> A Trail of Fire 13629443 Four extraordinary stories featuring characters from the bestselling OUTLANDER series.


In Lord John and the Plague of Zombies Lord John Grey is posted to Jamaica to assist the Governor as he faces a most unusual kind of uprising among the colony's slave population.

In The Space Between Jamie Fraser's step-daughter Joan is on her way to an abbey in Paris to become a nun - but when she meets the Comte St Germain, a wealthy French aristocrat rumoured to to deal in the occult - she discovers her destiny lies on a quite different path.

In The Custom of the Army Lord John Grey is summoned as a witness in a court martial in the wilds of Acadia, only to find himself playing a crucial role in the Battle of Quebec.

In A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows a WW2 Spitfire pilot called Jerry MacKenzie crashes near a stone circle and wakes up in the eighteenth century. Can the strange man he meets - who impossibly seems to know him - help him return to his wife and baby son before a terrible fate overtakes them?]]> 374 Diana Gabaldon 1409144488 sabriel 4 4.23 2012 A Trail of Fire
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8)]]> 11710373 And while Claire is terrified that one of her husbands may be about to murder the other, in the 20th century her descendants face even more desperate turns of events. Her daughter Brianna is trying to protect her son from a vicious criminal with murder on his mind, while her husband Roger has disappeared into the past . . .]]> 842 Diana Gabaldon 0385344430 sabriel 5 4.51 2014 Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander, #8)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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I was very impressed with how the storylines from Echo came together here. Even more impressed that at book 8 the series feels as strong as ever. Definitely a favourite. The new characters have been fantastic and I've really enjoyed the relationships between characters. As wonderful as the first blush of love is, there's something to be said for love that endures and grows stronger. It's a book steeped with emotion and parts are going to make me cry for a long time.
]]> One Plus One 18693716 One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You

Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight-in-shining-armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages... maybe ever.]]> 368 Jojo Moyes 0525426582 sabriel 0 to-read 3.92 2014 One Plus One
author: Jojo Moyes
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)]]> 2832909
Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son � a young lieutenant in the British Army � across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness � not if she has anything to say.

Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna’s parents� history � a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.]]> 820 Diana Gabaldon 0752898477 sabriel 4 4.42 2009 An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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Very aptly named because of the strong thread of loss I saw here. Probably the book in the series that had me crying the most with the echo in my own bones. Aside from that, this book is the most episodic and felt like a transition to the next stage of the story. LOVED the new characters introduced. The dates/timings are a bit confused, if you notice that sort of thing. [spoilers removed]
]]> <![CDATA[A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)]]> 864694

Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon's New York Times–bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over -- and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.



The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.



With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence -- with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie's death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.]]> 1410 Diana Gabaldon 0099278243 sabriel 4 4.5 stars]]> 4.27 2005 A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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I liked the exploration of relationships and love. I have to think about this book a bit more because such a lot happens. [spoilers removed]
4.5 stars
]]> Allegiant (Divergent, #3) 17406183 What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything?
What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?

The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.]]> 545 Veronica Roth sabriel 2 3.84 2013 Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
author: Veronica Roth
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2013
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender]]> 15751398
Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird.

In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naĂŻve to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the Summer Solstice celebration.

That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air, and Ava’s quest and her family’s saga build to a devastating crescendo.

First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human.]]> 320 Leslye Walton 0763670340 sabriel 0 to-read 4.01 2014 The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
author: Leslye Walton
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John Grey, #3)]]> 8533018
Lord John Grey � aristocrat, soldier, sometime spy � is in the possession of papers which reveal ta damning case of corruption and murder against a British officer. But the documents also hint at a far more dangerous conspiracy.

Soon Lord John and Jamie are unwilling companions on the road to Ireland, a country whose castles hold dreadful secrets, and where the bones of the dead are hidden, in an epic story of treachery � and scores that can only be settled in blood.
]]> 518 Diana Gabaldon 1409135195 sabriel 0 4.21 2011 The Scottish Prisoner (Lord John Grey, #3)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/04/26
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]]> <![CDATA[Prisoner of Night and Fog (Prisoner of Night and Fog, #1)]]> 17668473
Uncle Dolf is none other than Adolf Hitler. And Gretchen follows his every command.

Until she meets a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter named Daniel Cohen. Gretchen should despise Daniel, yet she can't stop herself from listening to his story: that her father, the adored Nazi martyr, was actually murdered by an unknown comrade. She also can't help the fierce attraction brewing between them, despite everything she's been taught to believe about Jews.

As Gretchen investigates the very people she's always considered friends, she must decide where her loyalties lie. Will she choose the safety of her former life as a Nazi darling, or will she dare to dig up the truth—even if it could get her and Daniel killed?

From debut author Anne Blankman comes this harrowing and evocative story about an ordinary girl faced with the extraordinary decision to give up everything she's ever believed . . . and to trust her own heart instead.]]> 401 Anne Blankman 0062278819 sabriel 0 to-read 4.04 2014 Prisoner of Night and Fog (Prisoner of Night and Fog, #1)
author: Anne Blankman
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (Lord John Grey, #2)]]> 41502 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander saga brings back one of her most compelling characters: Lord John Grey--soldier, gentleman, and no mean hand with a blade. Here Diana Gabaldon brilliantly weaves together the strands of Lord John's secret and public lives--a shattering family mystery, a love affair with potentially disastrous consequences, and a war that stretches from the Old World to the New. . . .

In 1758, in the heart of the Seven Years' War, Britain fights by the side of Prussia in the Rhineland. For Lord John and his titled brother Hal, the battlefield will be a welcome respite from the torturous mystery that burns poisonously in their family's history. Seventeen years earlier, Lord John's late father, the Duke of Pardloe, was found dead, a pistol in his hand and accusations of his role as a Jacobite agent staining forever a family's honor.

Now unlaid ghosts from the past are stirring. Lord John's brother has mysteriously received a page of their late father's missing diary. Someone is taunting the Grey family with secrets from the grave, but Hal, with secrets of his own, refuses to pursue the matter and orders his brother to do likewise. Frustrated, John turns to a man who has been both his prisoner and his confessor: the Scottish Jacobite James Fraser.

Fraser can tell many secrets, and withhold many others. But war, a forbidden affair, and Fraser's own secrets will complicate Lord John's quest. Until James Fraser yields the missing piece of an astounding puzzle, and Lord John, caught between his courage and his conscience, must decide whether his family's honor is worth his life.]]> 494 Diana Gabaldon 0385337493 sabriel 5 ]]> 3.90 2007 Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (Lord John Grey, #2)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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A more personal story than the first with a tangled little mystery at its heart. Love the dynamic between the Greys, loved getting to know them better. Tom Byrd continues to be a favourite. There were also some touching intimate moments, which were also tinged with sadness given the historical context. [spoilers removed]
]]> <![CDATA[The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)]]> 10967 1443 Diana Gabaldon 0440221668 sabriel 4 4.24 2001 The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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For me, the highlight was this book was Roger and his struggles and triumphs as he adapted to a way of life so very far removed from his old norm. His choices certainly mark him as exceptionally brave.
]]> <![CDATA[Three Weeks With Lady X (Desperate Duchesses, #7; Desperate Duchesses by the Numbers, #1)]]> 18052956
Exquisite, head-strong, and independent, India vows to make Thorn marriageable in just three weeks.

But neither Thorn nor India anticipate the forbidden passion that explodes between them.

Thorn will stop at nothing to make India his. Failure is not an option.

But there is only one thing that will make India his—the one thing Thorn can't afford to lose...

His fierce and lawless heart.]]> 376 Eloisa James 0062223895 sabriel 0 to-read 4.00 2014 Three Weeks With Lady X (Desperate Duchesses, #7; Desperate Duchesses by the Numbers, #1)
author: Eloisa James
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Fool Me Twice (Rules for the Reckless, #2)]]> 18143986 In the vein of Sarah MacLean, a sexy and evocative Victorian romance between a vengeful duke and a fiery redhead from an author who is a veritable tour de force in the genre.

A Lady With a Secret

Running for her life, exhausted and out of options, Olivia Holladay wants nothing more than the chance to make a home for herself. So when she realizes that the infamous Duke of Marwick might hold the key to her freedom, she boldly disguises herself as the newest and bravest in a long line of the duke’s notoriously temperamental housekeepers. Little does she know that the wickedly handsome Alastair de Grey has very different plans for her.

A Man With a Passion—For Vengeance

As his new employee, Olivia is a fearless upstart. As a woman, the daring redhead is just what Alastair needs to rouse him from darkness to the siren call of revenge. He has suffered a betrayal so deep that he will use whatever means necessary to destroy his enemies—even his brazen and beautiful domestic. But his vengeful plan fails to account for his single weakness: an irresistible and growing passion for the enigmatic Olivia.]]> 365 Meredith Duran 1476741352 sabriel 0 to-read 3.94 2014 Fool Me Twice (Rules for the Reckless, #2)
author: Meredith Duran
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]]> <![CDATA[Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)]]> 6973365 Librarian's note: This is an Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0440335175 ISBN13: 9780440335177.

The magnificent saga continues...

It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past--or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice.

Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend--a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter, Brianna...

Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the circle of stones and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history ... and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past ... or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong...]]> 1120 Diana Gabaldon sabriel 5 4.21 1996 Drums of Autumn (Outlander, #4)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1996
rating: 5
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For all that I was hesitant to read this book, I thoroughly enjoyed it. The emotional highs were more than worth it. The change in location - the bit I was hesitant about - opened up a new, wild land, and I'm quite in love with the setting of Fraser Ridge. The characters continue to be engaging. Love Ian. Roger seems a curious blend of Jamie & Frank. And I find that I'm more than a little jealous of Brianna's friendship with Lord John. Overall, a satisfying read and I look forward to the next.
]]> Life in Outer Space 16119664 305 Melissa Keil 1742973957 sabriel 0 to-read 3.96 2013 Life in Outer Space
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]]> <![CDATA[Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1)]]> 7295501 Shades of Milk and Honey is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman ahead of her time in a version of Regency England where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality. But despite the prevalence of magic in everyday life, other aspects of Dorchester’s society are not that different: Jane and her sister Melody’s lives still revolve around vying for the attentions of eligible men.

Jane resists this fate, and rightly so: while her skill with glamour is remarkable, it is her sister who is fair of face, and therefore wins the lion’s share of the attention. At the ripe old age of twenty-eight, Jane has resigned herself to being invisible forever. But when her family’s honor is threatened, she finds that she must push her skills to the limit in order to set things right–and, in the process, accidentally wanders into a love story of her own.]]> 304 Mary Robinette Kowal 076532556X sabriel 0 to-read 3.49 2010 Shades of Milk and Honey (Glamourist Histories, #1)
author: Mary Robinette Kowal
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average rating: 3.49
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]]> Cross Stitch (Outlander, #1) 12256385
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.]]> 882 Diana Gabaldon sabriel 4 4.36 1991 Cross Stitch (Outlander, #1)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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A difficult book to rate because I'm still recovering from that thing that happened that time. I got impatient in parts because the pacing is like life itself in the face impending doom. But, I was also fully engaged and felt more than a little obsessed with the story. Reading the book was a very immersive experience, with the location and people well-sketched, which I love. Then there is the small matter of James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser. He's so stinking perfect that I felt I should hate him on (unbalanced) principle. But that would be like hating the stars themselves. "Beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night. Stronger than the foundations of the earth", to paraphrase from a different book. My rating reflects my obsession.
]]> <![CDATA[Romancing the Duke (Castles Ever After, #1)]]> 18052985 In the first in Tessa Dare's captivating Castles Ever After series, a mysterious fortress is the setting for an unlikely love . . .

As the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens. She never doubted romance would be in her future, too. The storybooks offered endless possibilities.

And as she grew older, Izzy crossed them off. One by one by one.

Ugly duckling turned swan?
Abducted by handsome highwayman?
Rescued from drudgery by charming prince?

No, no, and� Heh.

Now Izzy’s given up yearning for romance. She’ll settle for a roof over her head. What fairy tales are left over for an impoverished twenty-six year-old woman who’s never even been kissed?

This one.]]> 370 Tessa Dare 0062240196 sabriel 4 3.86 2014 Romancing the Duke (Castles Ever After, #1)
author: Tessa Dare
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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Excellent banter and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. Sensibilities were a smidgen too modern for my taste, but I still had a rollicking good time reading this. Doubt not.
]]> <![CDATA[The Trouble With Honor (The Cabot Sisters, #1)]]> 18246319
An illegitimate son of a duke, George Easton was born of scandal and grows his fortune through dangerous risks. But now he and Honor are dabbling in a perilous dance of seduction that puts her reputation and his jaded heart on the line. And as unexpected desire threatens to change the rules of their secret game, the stakes may become too high even for a notorious gambler and a determined, free-spirited debutante to handle.
]]> 378 Julia London 0373778457 sabriel 0 to-read 3.59 2014 The Trouble With Honor (The Cabot Sisters, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)]]> 5364 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...

For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....

Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....]]> 947 Diana Gabaldon sabriel 5 ]]> 4.33 1992 Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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This isn't a story that aims to go straight from A to B. Rather, it meanders along to G, X, K, C, P, and M on the way. The story goes where the characters go and, if that's your thing, you go along with them. I find the characters very compelling and willing suffer several heart palpitations on their behalf. The setting adds another dimension to their struggles and triumphs. The - at times dark - humour is a welcome relief, as are the beautiful, tender moments. If I could say something coherent about JAMMF, I would. As it is I can just about stop myself from staring off into the middle distance whenever he's mentioned.

]]> <![CDATA[Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey, #1)]]> 10990
Adored bestselling author Diana Gabaldon brings us the first book in a new trilogy featuring many of the characters from her wildly popular Outlander series.

In her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon introduced millions of readers to a dazzling world of history and adventure � a world of vibrant settings and utterly unforgettable characters. Now one of these characters, Major Lord John Grey, opens the door to his own part of this world � eighteenth-century London, a seething anthill of nobility and rabble peopled by soldiers and spies, whores and dukes. Great Britain is battling France for supremacy on three continents � and life is good for a soldier.

The year is 1757. On a clear morning in mid-June, Lord John Grey emerges from London’s Beefsteak Club, his mind in turmoil. A nobleman and a high-ranking officer in His Majesty’s Army, Grey has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more the Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade in arms, who may have been a traitor.

Obliged to pursue two inquiries at once, Major Grey finds himself ensnared in a web of treachery and betrayal that touches every stratum of English society � and threatens all he holds dear. From the bawdy houses of London’s night-world to the stately drawing rooms of the nobility, and from the blood of a murdered corpse to the thundering seas ruled by the majestic fleet of the East India Company, Lord John pursues the elusive trails of a vanishing footman and a woman in green velvet, who may hold the key to everything � or nothing.

The early days of the Seven Years War come brilliantly to life in this historical mystery by an author whose unique and compelling storytelling has engrossed millions of readers worldwide.]]> 368 Diana Gabaldon 0770429459 sabriel 5 3.72 2003 Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey, #1)
author: Diana Gabaldon
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average rating: 3.72
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I love mysteries and historicals and ADORE Lord John Grey, so this book was a shoe in for me. I loved it and am looking forward to reading the rest. While completely unlike the Outlander series (except in the writing), this feels like a faithful companion. Like seeing what's happening in the world outside of the trials of our beloved protagonists. The mystery itself had a political espionage angle and pretty good. The gore and filth were a bit eye-popping at times, but fit the story. Tom Byrd was a very welcome ray of sunshine. Loved him, hope to see more of him. Throughly enjoyed.
]]> Voyager (Outlander, #3) 10987 Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.

Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.

Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite or forever doom her timeless love.

]]> 870 Diana Gabaldon 0385335997 sabriel 4 4.38 1993 Voyager (Outlander, #3)
author: Diana Gabaldon
name: sabriel
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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I should wait for the whirlpool of my feelings to settle before I rate this. For now, foremost in my mind is love for Lord John Grey and the knowledge that I wanted to strangle Jamie twice. The ease and intimacy between Claire and Jamie always warms my heart, though. I hope to see a lot more of it - a la Dragonfly in Amber - in subsequent books.
]]> Wicked Becomes You 6597344 She’s been burned not once but twice by London’s so-called gentlemen . . .

Gwen Maudsley is pretty enough to be popular, and plenty wealthy, too. But what she’s best known and loved for is being so very, very nice. When a cad jilts her at the altar—again—the scandal has her outraged friends calling for blood. Only Gwen has a different plan. If nice no longer works for her, then it’s time to learn to be naughty. Happily, she knows the perfect tutor—Alexander Ramsey, her late brother’s best friend and a notorious rogue.

So why won’t a confirmed scoundrel let her be as bad as she wants to be?

Unbeknownst to Gwen, Alex’s aloof demeanor veils his deepest unspoken desire. He has no wish to see her change, nor to tempt himself with her presence when his own secrets make any future between them impossible. But on a wild romp from Paris to the Riviera, their friendship gives way to something hotter, darker, and altogether more dangerous. With Alex’s past and Gwen’s newly unleashed wildness on a collision course, Gwen must convince Alex that his wickedest intentions are exactly what she needs.

]]> 402 Meredith Duran 1416593128 sabriel 0 to-read 3.66 2010 Wicked Becomes You
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]]> Moth and Spark 16239655 A prince with a quest. A commoner with mysterious powers. And dragons that demand to be freed—at any cost.

Prince Corin has been chosen to free the dragons from their bondage to the Empire, but dragons aren’t big on directions. They have given him some of their power, but none of their knowledge. No one, not the dragons nor their riders, is even sure what keeps the dragons in the Empire’s control.

Tam, sensible daughter of a well-respected doctor, had no idea before she arrived in the capital that she is a Seer, gifted with visions. When the two run into each other (quite literally) in the library, sparks fly and Corin impulsively asks Tam to dinner. But it’s not all happily ever after. Never mind that the prince isn’t allowed to marry a commoner: war is coming to Caithen.

Torn between Corin’s quest to free the dragons and his duty to his country, the lovers must both figure out how to master their powers in order to save Caithen. With a little help from a village of secret wizards and a rogue dragonrider, they just might pull it off.]]> 368 Anne Leonard 0670015709 sabriel 0 to-read 3.21 2014 Moth and Spark
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]]> Always 20822313
It’s New Year’s Eve, 2007, and Justine James is fronting her dead-end band for a less-than-adoring crowd. But there’s one person there who sees what she could be—one person who changes everything for her.

Dillon Pierce clawed his way up from the LA streets with no one to count on but his best friend, Ash. Their years of struggle finally pay off when their band, Outlaw Rovers, gets signed and their single takes off. With Ash as the magnetic lead singer and Dillon as the band’s musical soul, they’re destined for greatness, provided Dillon can keep Ash from self-destructing first.

Dillon might not be fronting Outlaw Rovers, but he’s always been the only one Justine sees. She’s followed his career from afar and when he shows up at her crummy New Year’s Eve gig, nothing will stop her from meeting him. They forge an intense connection, rapidly moving from friends to musical soul mates. Justine wants much more, but she’s not willing to climb over groupies and industry bottom-feeders to make it happen. Dillon becomes a fixture in her life, but she has to figure out how to keep him out of her heart.

Outlaw Rovers begins to implode as Justine’s star is on the rise. The years that follow bring equal parts fame and ruin. For Justine, a new love supplants her old heartbreak, and Dillon has to reboot his life after losing nearly everything that matters. Despite the odds, Dillon and Justine remain devoted friends and musical collaborators. After all the missed chances, wrong turns and painful detours, can they finally find the happiness together that seemed destined from the start?]]> 349 Amanda Weaver sabriel 0 to-read 4.00 2014 Always
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> Taking Flight 20645412 70 Maggie Kavanagh 1627984852 sabriel 0 to-read 3.42 2014 Taking Flight
author: Maggie Kavanagh
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average rating: 3.42
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]]> <![CDATA[The Star Thief (Star Thief Chronicles, #1)]]> 19146092 Stealing another galactic secret will get her arrested, but playing by the rules might just get her killed.

At twenty-three, Renna Carrizal is the most notorious thief in the galaxy. There's just one problem - all she wants is to get out of the business.

But after Renna rescues an injured boy on her final job, she finds herself on the run from the mob instead of enjoying retirement. She unwittingly becomes ensnared by MYTH, a top-secret galactic protection agency who offer her a choice - either help them on their latest mission, or spend the rest of her life on a prison ship.

Forced to work under the watchful eye of handsome but arrogant Captain Finn, Renna learns the former mercenary-turned-hero has a few dirty secrets himself. As Renna works to discover the truth about Finn's past and keep the tantalizing man at arm's length, she unearths a plot to create an unstoppable army. The target? The human star fleet.

Now Renna must pull off the biggest job of her career - saving the galaxy. And maybe even herself.]]> 400 Jamie Grey 149294484X sabriel 0 to-read 3.46 2014 The Star Thief (Star Thief Chronicles, #1)
author: Jamie Grey
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average rating: 3.46
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]]> <![CDATA[A Kiss for Midwinter (Brothers Sinister, #1.5)]]> 16116470
Jonas Grantham has a secret, too: He's been in love with Lydia for more than a year. This winter, he's determined to conquer her dislike and win her for his own. It all starts with a wager and a kiss...

A Kiss for Midwinter is a novella (38,000 words) in the Brothers Sinister series. It follows The Duchess War. Each book stands on its own, but those who prefer to read in order might want to read that book first.]]> 121 Courtney Milan 1937248100 sabriel 3 3.88 2012 A Kiss for Midwinter (Brothers Sinister, #1.5)
author: Courtney Milan
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average rating: 3.88
book published: 2012
rating: 3
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What I liked most about this was the intensity of Lydia's feelings and that she could feel them all in Jonas' presence. What's love if not the freedom to be exactly who we are.
]]> <![CDATA[The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)]]> 13489922
And that’s precisely what she wants. She’ll do anything, even risk humiliation, if it means she can stay unmarried and keep her sister safe.

Mr. Oliver Marshall has to do everything right. He’s the bastard son of a duke, raised in humble circumstances—and he intends to give voice and power to the common people. If he makes one false step, he’ll never get the chance to accomplish anything. He doesn’t need to come to the rescue of the wrong woman. He certainly doesn’t need to fall in love with her. But there’s something about the lovely, courageous Jane that he can’t resist... even though it could mean the ruin of them both.]]> 280 Courtney Milan 1937248151 sabriel 3 The secondary storylines stole the show for me! One of them was unexpectedly moving, which made it even better. This is not to say that the main story was lacking. It had an uncomfortable honesty to it, which mirrored the storyline pretty well.
3.5 stars.]]> 3.88 2013 The Heiress Effect (Brothers Sinister, #2)
author: Courtney Milan
name: sabriel
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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The secondary storylines stole the show for me! One of them was unexpectedly moving, which made it even better. This is not to say that the main story was lacking. It had an uncomfortable honesty to it, which mirrored the storyline pretty well.
3.5 stars.
]]> <![CDATA[Beyond the Highland Mist (Highlander, #1)]]> 743599
An alluring laird...

He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart—until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too outspoken, she was an irresistible challenge to the sixteenth-century rogue. Coerced into a marriage with Hawk, Adrienne vowed to keep him at arm's length—but his sweet seduction played havoc with her resolve.

A prisoner in time...

She had a perfect "no" on her perfect lips for the notorious laird, but Hawk swore she would whisper his name with desire, begging for the passion he longed to ignite within her. Not even the barriers of time and space would keep him from winning her love. Despite her uncertainty about following the promptings of her own passionate heart, Adrienne's reservations were no match for Hawk's determination to keep her by his side...]]> 400 Karen Marie Moning 0440244161 sabriel 0 to-read 3.96 1999 Beyond the Highland Mist (Highlander, #1)
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin, #1)]]> 16128152 Alternate cover edition of ISBN-10: 0988564106 (ISBN13: 9780988564107)

Some things should stay buried.

Repressed scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has two skills: reading dead languages and hiding in his office at the Ladysmith Museum. After the tragic death of the friend he secretly loved, he’s ruthlessly suppressed any desire for another man.

So when handsome ex-Pinkerton Griffin Flaherty approaches him to translate a mysterious book, Whyborne wants to finish the job and get rid of the detective as quickly as possible. Griffin left the Pinkertons following the death of his partner, hoping to start a new life. But the powerful cult which murdered Glenn has taken root in Widdershins, and only the spells in the book can stop them. Spells the intellectual Whyborne doesn’t believe are real.

As the investigation draws the two men closer, Griffin’s rakish charm threatens to shatter Whyborne’s iron control. When the cult resurrects an evil sorcerer who commands terrifying monsters, can Whyborne overcome his fear and learn to trust? Will Griffin let go of his past and risk falling in love? Or will Griffin’s secrets cost Whyborne both his heart and his life?]]> 236 Jordan L. Hawk sabriel 0 to-read 4.08 2012 Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin, #1)
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average rating: 4.08
book published: 2012
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