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The Night Watch by Sergey Lukyanenko
Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. The "Night Watch", first book in the "Night ...
8.0/10
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (Chalion Series)
Finished 5 hours into the new year, I still count this as a 2013 review, even though it’s publication will still fall into 2014. And, when I realised – a third of the way through this book, by virtue of some diligent online research – that the characters of this story would be, mostly, left behind in the subsequent two editions...
9.0/10
Mystic and Rider by Sharon Shinn (Twelve Houses Series)
Gillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a dangerous level, though King Baryn has ordered that such mystics are to be tolerated. It is whispered that he issued the decree because his new wife used her magic powers to ensnare him…The King knows that there are those in the noble...
7.0/10
Conrad's Fate by Diana Wynne Jones (The Chrestomanci Series)
‘It’s your fate – this wretched bad karma of yours – that’s the problem,’ said Uncle Alfred. ‘Unless you put right what you did wrong in a previous life – and put it right now – you are going to be horribly and painfully dead before the year is out.’Conrad is young, good at heart...
8.0/10
In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness)
Still disguised as a boy, Alanna becomes a squire to none other than the prince of the realm. Prince Jonathon is not only Alanna's liege lord, he is also her best friend – and one of the few who knows the secret of her true identity. But when a mysterious sorcerer threatens the prince's life, it will take all of Alanna's skill,...
6.5/10
Fallen by Tim Lebbon
Ramus and Nomi are Voyagers, a select Guild that seeks to explore the untamed wilds of Noreela and reveal them the past and the rest of civilisation. They obtain some documents in a strange language, papers that seem to suggest that there may be something at the top of the Great Divide, a mind-bogglingly high cliff that runs across the sout...
7.5/10
Storm Front by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files)
Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Reasonable rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment. Harry Dresden is the best and technically the 'only' at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal capabilities, they come to him for answers. For the 'everyday' world i...
9.0/10
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin (Matthew Swift)
When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford - Samuel JohnsonIn fact, Dr Johnson was only half right. There is in London much more than life - there is power. It ebbs and flows with the rhythms of the city, makes runes from the alignments of ancient streets and hums with the r...
7.2/10