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Review: N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

I’m not gonna lie: I picked up this book because of the cover. I was wan­der­ing through the library and it was fac­ing out on a shelf of new fic­tion. The col­ors caught my eye, and then I looked more closely at it and thought, “AWESOME, a woman of color is the hero­ine!” And, after fin­ish­ing

Review: Steven Brust and Emma Bull, Freedom & Necessity

Some alchemy hap­pened about 75 pages into Free­dom & Neces­sity. I went from forc­ing myself slowly onward (my pre­vi­ous attempt to read the book ended at page 60) to being unable to put it down. I love Susan most of all, but the other three main char­ac­ters  —  James, Kitty, and Richard  —  are also well-drawn and extremely lik­able,