The Glass Magician, by Charlie N. Holmberg. 47 North, 2014 This is the second book in Holmberg’s trilogy about Ceony Twill, an apprentice magician. Set three months after the events in ‘The Paper Magician’, we find Ceony falling more in love with her teacher, Magician Emery Thane, feelings which she thinks he doesn’t reciprocate. We also find Grath ( Read more... )

The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern. Doubleday, 2011 I’m finding it incredibly hard to review this book. I loved this novel; it drew me in and I wanted to live in its world. But I don’t seem to have the words to explain how I feel about it, and what makes it so wondrous. And description seems ordinary ( Read more... )