fantasy – An American Bluestocking

The darker side of educating young wizards

Young wizards have to team up to survive their Deadly Education in a monster-filled boarding school.

Fairy tales

Naomi Novik makes old stories new again I first got hooked on Naomi Novik’s fantastic (in all senses of the word) writing with His Majesty’s Dragon, an imaginative novel whose plot could most succinctly be described as “The Napoleonic Wars, but with dragons.” That book bloomed into an eventual nine-book series; though I read allContinue reading “Fairy tales”