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- His Majesty's Dragon (27)
- (Temeraire, Book 1)
- By Naomi Novik
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Finished in Apr 2008
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- The Blue Sword (26)
- By Robin McKinley
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- The Curse of Chalion (12)
- By Lois McMaster Bujold
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Finished on Mar 7, 2009
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- Hard Contact (5)
- (Republic Commando, Book 1)
- By Karen Traviss
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Finished in Jan 2009
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- The Warded Man (1)
- By Peter V. Brett
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Finished on Feb 12, 2009
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I've been hunting and hunting for a new fantasy series to read and anticipate. And I’ve found one with Warded Man! While definitely part bildungsroman, I never once found it hackneyed or cliché, which is a terribly hard thing to pull off with these coming-of-age tales. Classic tropes were use ... (continue)
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- Dragon Sword and Wind Child (2)
- By Noriko Ogiwara
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Finished in 2008
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- Seademons (1)
- By Laurence Yep
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Finished in 2007
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- Dune, (105)
- (Dune Chronicles, Book 1, (40th Anniversary Edition))
- By Frank Herbert
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- Shadows Return (3)
- (Nightrunner)
- By Lynn Flewelling
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Finished in 2008
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- The Crimson Sword (1)
- By Eldon Thompson
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- The Serpent Bride (3)
- DarkGlass Mountain: Book One (Darkglass Mountain)
- By Sara Douglass
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Finished on Feb 19, 2009
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- The Rogue Hunter (5)
- (Argeneau Vampires, Book 10)
- By Lynsay Sands
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Finished on Feb 8, 2009
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I've only read the first couple of books in Sands’ Argeneau Vampires series, so I could be off about the entire flow of the series, but I feel Sands should have stayed with the straight working girl/working boy formula since her focus is the blooming attraction between Sam and Mortimer. I felt teas ... (continue)
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Hard Contact
In a nutshell: Life in the fray as a peon.
It’s easy to forget that there’s a person behind the helmet (whether in Star Wars or real life). Traviss certainly reminds her readers of that fact with these characters. She’s done a good job making us sympathetic towards the green Jedi and the chi ... (continue)
In a nutshell: Life in the fray as a peon.
It’s easy to forget that there’s a person behind the helmet (whether in Star Wars or real life). Traviss certainly reminds her readers of that fact with these characters. She’s done a good job making us sympathetic towards the green Jedi and the child-commando—and why should we not be? At times Etain is gratingly naïve and Darman a little too wise and accepting, but by the end you realize that it’s all necessary, that they are just two people swept up in a large wave and unable to do anything but cling to their guns and get washed along.
(My copy was courtesy the publisher at the 2009 NY Comic Con.)
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