Magic in the Alley is a sweet, atmospheric children’s fantasy by the author of one of my very favorite children’s books, The House of Thirty Cats. The latter is about a girl who befriends an old lady with thirty cats, and ends up helping her match prospective cat owners with the exact right cat for them. It does a great job of sketching the ( Read more... )

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This was one of the most enjoyable YA fantasies I’ve read all year. I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more discussion of it ( Read more... )

Dan Davis, genius engineer, invents a household chore-doing robot (which I have to admit that I covet) but is screwed out of his patent by his partner and his double-crossing fiancée. Through a sequence of events too fun to spoil, he ends up in the future - and then back to the past, trying to fix things. And, alas, hit on an eleven-year-old. Sort ( Read more... )

This and The Book of Three were always my least favorites of the series. In this case, I can see why ( Read more... )

Like many of Maxwell’s books, this is space opera from the id ( Read more... )