Unraveller – Frances Hardinge

Unraveller book cover

"If you must travel to the country of Raddith, then be prepared." Raddith sits alongside a mysterious area known as the Wilds. If you look at it, it doesn't seem that big or anything to worry about. But as you travel near or - best not! - into the Wilds, the topography shifts. Things you … Continue reading Unraveller – Frances Hardinge

Lioness Rampant – Tamora Pierce

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"On a March afternoon a knight and a man-at-arms reached the gate of the Marenite city of Berat." My childhood love of the first book in the Song of the Lioness quartet, Alanna, failed to continue with either adulthood or the series, and alas we don't finish any better. Or any worse, so there is that. Alanna, always getting … Continue reading Lioness Rampant – Tamora Pierce