The year of our Lord 1161 is not a great time to be a girl — even less so a girl who wants to become a swordsmith. Forced to flee her home in rural England, our young heroine Ellenweore disguises herself as a boy and travels with a famous swordsmith to Normandy, where sons of…
Tag: fantasy
Review: Huntress
Nothing is quite right in the human kingdom. The sun has been obscured by clouds for years, and season after season crops continue failing. Menacing creatures lurk in the darkened woods, and even the wealthiest of families find themselves in danger. Taisin is a sage-in-training, blessed and cursed with powers she has not learned to…
Review: Wizard’s First Rule
Only weeks after his father’s brutal murder, Richard stumbles upon a mysterious woman who is being stalked through the forest. Her name is Kahlan, and Richard can tell she is hiding secrets. Which is fine, because so is he. Strange things are happening in the Westlands. The boundary between it and the Midlands — a…
Review: Mort
(I read this book as part of the Reading Out of the Box Challenge. This book was in the It’s My Birthday! category, in which I read a book published the same year or month as my birthday.) Mort isn’t stupid, really, just a little…odd. So it’s not particularly surprising when he’s chosen as Death’s…
Review: Choose Your Weapon
15 year-old Helen Connor doesn’t lead the most exciting life. Her parents work all the time, her boyfriend prefers LARPing to spending time with her, the best experience she can expect from her classmates is being ignored, and she’s stuck in the tiny town of Hollingsworth. She thinks everything will change when she becomes a…