This is an adaptation of the fairy tale “Snow White and Rose Red” (which, despite likely having the same root as “Snow White,” is a different story from “Snow White,” and actually one I prefer to “Snow White”) set in Elizabethan England and incorporating elements of “Thomas the Rhymer ( Read more... )

Set ten years after The Grand Tour, Kate and Cecy (and their husbands, of course, though I sometimes wonder if Thomas and James feel like third wheels when Kate and Cecy get together) have settled into respectable married lives. Or what passes as normal in an early 19th century where magic is common place. Things are not to remain peaceful, however ( Read more... )

The complete list of books I read it 2008 is in poll form here.

( top books of the year )

Set about two years after Mairelon the Magician, The Magician’s Ward has Kim’s training as a magician well underway. Her training, however, becomes a secondary consideration when it comes time to introduce Kim to society as Mairelon’s ward. Brought in for that task is Mairelon’s very very proper aunt, Mrs. Lowe. Not about to be upstaged, however, ( Read more... )

Set shortly after Sorcery and Cecelia, The Grand Tour features cousins Cecelia and Kate, along with their new husbands, James and Thomas, going on the famed Grand Tour of the continent for their wedding journeys.  Naturally, things don't go as peacefully as planned, and the two couples soon find themselves caught up in strange events connected to ( Read more... )

Having grown up together in Essex, cousins Cecelia and Kate decide to write to each other regularly when Kate and her sister Georgina go to London for the season with their Aunt Charlotte. Aunt Charlotte would have left Kate behind, but you can’t bring the younger sister out before the older, and so she decided to bring them both out at once, and ( Read more... )

Kim is a teenaged street urchin in a Regency era London different from our own only (apparently) in that magic-and magicians-are real. When Kim is hired to steal a silver bowl from a stage magician named Mairelon, she’s caught in a magic trap and captured by the magician. Mairelon, immediately recognizing her as a girl and not the boy she disguises ( Read more... )