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Hey all, just so everyone knows, due to the ongoing web server instability on my home network, keeping angelahighland.com as my primary author website has become problematic. So I’m going to convert angelahighland.info to be my new primary author site.

If you’re following angelahighland.com posts directly via RSS, I invite you to follow angelahighland.info instead as I’m going to start putting the bulk of my activity there. You should be able to use https://angelahighland.info/feed/ instead.

If you actually have a WordPress.com account of your own, you can subscribe via their mechanism for that, too. WordPress.com has a help page about how to do that here.

Those of you who read me via my crossposts to Dreamwidth, I’ll need to see if I can set up something to crosspost from the .info site. I don’t know if I can yet, and unless I upgrade from my current premium plan to a business one, WordPress.com won’t let me install plugins there. So I’ll need to look at other options. For the time being, anything I need to post out to Dreamwidth will probably come in off annathepiper.org.

Most if not all of the primary content from the .com site is going to get copied over to the .info site over the next few days. And by primary content, that means, the actual book-related static pages.

Content here that isn’t directly related to my books (e.g., Quebec music stuff) will probably get copied back to annathepiper.org. Posts and comments I will probably also copy back over there.

Eventually, I will probably have this site go dark. But I need to do all the content transfer first! And I’ll also be setting up redirects for the major site pages so that people who hit them (at least assuming that our web server is actually friggin’ UP) can go safely over to the .info site.

Any questions, y’all, let me know!

This post is going up as my first in 2020, but it’s all the remaining books acquired during 2019, so these count to 2019’s overall count!

Acquired from Audible in audiobook form:

The A.I. Who Loved Me, by Alyssa Cole. Contemporary romance. Grabbed this one as I’ve been very fond of Cole’s work lately, and also because this is an audio-only release.
Signal, by Tony Peak. SF. Grabbed this one just because I had a free credit to spend from Audible due to the settlement they had to do, and there was apparently a limited number of titles to choose from, so I grabbed an SF story I didn’t recognize. Hopefully it’ll be good?

Acquired from Tor.com:

Wild Cards I, edited by George R.R. Martin. This is the long-running superheroes series that George R.R. Martin has to his credit, I believe as primary creator and editor? This was a recent freebie on the Tor.com monthly ebook club.

Acquired from Amazon:

The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes. Fantasy. Got this in both novella and audiobook form, in no small part because Daveed Diggs apparently does the reading. And now that I’ve finally fallen in love with the Hamilton soundtrack, I was VERY interested to hear about this story as he does the audiobook narration. Plus, the story sounds pretty amazing: a race of mermaids is descended from pregnant African women who threw themselves overboard to escape slavery. And a female of this race, who’s charged with being the keeper of her people’s memories, rediscovers the surface world. Yowza. (I’m only counting this title once for the count, even though I got it in two formats.)
In the Dark, by Loreth Anne White. Thriller/romantic suspense. Got this one because I was able to get it for $1.99, and because I’ve read the author before and liked a previous title of hers.
The Vine Witch, by Luanne G. Smith. Fantasy. Nabbed this one because it sounds charming, a historical-type fantasy set in France and centered around magically-powered winemaking.
Daughter of Shadows, Son of Solace, and Ashes of Chadanar, by Mirren Hogan. Fantasy/fantasy romance. Grabbed this entire trilogy as I got word via the Romance Alliance discord server that author Mirren Hogan had lost her home in the fires going on down in Australia.

The Rise of Skywalker

On Christmas Day, Dara and I did our annual “go see a movie” thing. And, as should surprise exactly none of you who follow me and my postings, that movie was Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

It’s taken me a few days to get a post together because I’ve been mulling over my thoughts on it, hardcore. The picoreview: I liked several things about it, and actively hated a few other things. Overall I found it a serviceable finale to the Skywalker saga, but only serviceable, which was a disappointment to me. It didn’t engage me emotionally nearly as much as I was hoping for.

I’ve seen reviews that have described the movie as unimaginative. That’s… kind of where I am with it. It makes some plot choices that feel utterly predictable, and presents them in a way that doesn’t reach the level The Force Awakens did to make them fun anyway.

That said, I’m still glad I saw it, and at least after my first viewing, I’m pretty sure I found it more enjoyable than any of the three movies in the prequel trilogy. I will probably need to see it again to find out whether my current overall opinion holds.

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What I really hated

I am actively pissed off that Rose Tico was relegated to barely a speaking part, and that several of her lines were uttered instead by Dominic Monaghan. Don’t get me wrong: I like Dominic Monaghan just fine, and certainly cannot help but be partial to him due to his having been Merry in LotR. But his character, whoever the hell he was, showed up out of nowhere in this movie and uttered a bunch of lines that just as easily could have been given to Rose. Hashtag #RoseTicoDeservedBetter on Twitter was absolutely on point.
Also really not a fan of what seems to be J.J. Abrams’ active refutation of what Rian Johnson established in The Last Jedi re: not needing to come out of a special/powerful family in order to have the Force. I thought the idea of Rey coming from parents who were nobodies infinitely more interesting than making her the secret daughter or descendant of some character we’d met already.

What I rolled my eyes at even if I didn’t actively hate it

LET POE AND FINN BE SPACE HUSBANDS, YOU COWARDS.
Related to previous, one kiss by two women in the background is not, repeat, NOT adequate on-camera queer representation. It’s barely a start.
There were too many plot points that didn’t land with me like I think the movie wanted them to, because they played too hard as predictable and safe. E.g., “OHNOEZ CHEWIE IS DEAD!” Except I was pretty damn sure he wasn’t actually dead, and yep, boom, reveal he was on a different transport. E.g., “OHNOEZ ZORRI IS DEAD BECAUSE KIJIMI EXPLODED” except of course she survived the planet being blown up.
My objection to Abrams’ stomping on Johnson’s “the Force can come from ANYBODY” theme aside, since we knew Palpatine was coming back from the trailers, I was prepared to deal with that. The core idea of “Palpatine is actually the Big Bad of this trilogy” is fine, and it does take steps to try to tie all three trilogies together. On the other hand, I feel like Palpatine’s return in this final movie was too rushed and too shoehorned in. I would have liked to have seen better foreshadowing in the previous two movies.
Corollary to previous: bringing Palpatine back only in this movie means he had no time to be anything except a caricature of his previous appearances. Yeah, sure, it ain’t like Palpatine was ever a character of depth; he’s always been there to be Evil Because He’s Evil Period End of Story. But at least in the previous movies, even in the prequels, you had time to see him actually be conniving, and do more interesting things than hang off a bit of machinery keeping him alive and cackle menacingly about how he’s going to make Rey kill him just so he can take over her body.
Likewise, maybe having to hide out in the Unknown Regions diminished his capacity for a Coherent Supervillain Plan or something, because it sure seemed like Palpatine did a fast pivot from ordering Kylo/Ben to “KILL THE GIRL” to incoherently jumping around between “goad the girl into killing me”, “slurp life force out of her and the Skywalker kid”, and “naaah let’s just make her kill me”.
“I AM ALL THE SITH”/”I AM ALL THE JEDI” was just a bit too close to “I am inevitable”/”I am Iron Man” from the tail end of Avengers: Endgame. Particularly given that Rey actually dies.
Confirmation that Rey and Ben were, in fact, romantically interested in one another. I’m sure all the Reylo shippers were happy about that (and I do not begrudge them that!), but me, I’m all “meh”.

What I boggled at, because WTF?

After all that trouble the plot went to to have Finn be all “REY I GOTTA TELL YOU SOMETHING”, he never actually gets a chance to tell her whatever he wanted to say. Way to NOT GIVE ME CLOSURE, MOVIE. Did Abrams cut a scene where Finn actually gets to tell Rey later “oh hey by the way, that Force thing? I think I have a bit of it?” If he did, can we have that scene on the Blu-ray, please? Because dammit, I want to see that talk. (And I do hope it’s that as opposed to just “REY I LOVE YOU” because again, that’d be too predictable and safe.)
All those hooded figures hanging out in the Dog Park around Palpatine while he cackled–those were just supposed to be the Sith spirits he was cackling about, right? Was there anything in canon lore in play here I’m not actually aware of? Because it seemed like the figures just were suddenly there, without any context as to why. I interpreted that as “these are the spirits”, but I’ve also seen commenters on the Internet with other interpretations like “uh, I thought they were cultists”. Which tells me the whole sequence did a poor job of establishing WTF was going on.
Didn’t we have Snoke in TLJ crowing about how that connection in the Force between Rey and Kylo was only there because he manufactured it? And now in this movie we discover they’re a “dyad”, a special thing unknown for generations? So was Snoke lying out his ass, then, or what?
Editing to add: Did I miss it, or did Rey’s vision of seeing herself and Ben on the Sith throne only get mentioned and not actually shown? I would have liked to actually have seen that.

What I was neutral on

Zorri in general and the whole little side reveal of Poe having a past as a spice runner.
Babu Frik. I know a lot of folks are all HE’S SO CUTE but he didn’t grab me like Baby Yoda did.

So yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything besides an ebook report, I know! This post is not actually going to change that, but it’s taken me several days to compose it and I really need to get it out of my queue. So here you go!

The Candle and the Flame

Acquired from Kobo:

The Widow of Rose House, by Diana Biller. Gothic/historical romance. Nabbed it because of this excellent review over on Smart Bitches Trashy Books.

Palimpsest, Speak Easy, and The Refrigerator Monologues, all by Catherynne Valente. Fantasy and superheroes. Nabbed them partly because she’s just generally an excellent author, and partly also because I saw word going around on Twitter that her family got hard-hit by recent storm action. So I thought I’d make a point of grabbing a few of her titles I didn’t have already.

The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders. SF. Grabbed because I like the premise, and because it went briefly on sale for reduced price.

The Candle and the Flame, by Nafiza Azad. Fantasy. Gotten because good lord that cover is gorgeous, and because I was drawn in by the sample I read on Kobo. And by the protagonist playing an oud! (As y’all know, I am very partial to musician protagonists, and hey, I have even SEEN an oud.)

The Queen of Rhodia, Daughter of the Sun, and The Queen of Ieflaria, by Effie Calvin. SF/SF Romance, and specifically F/F as well. Book 1 of this series, The Queen of Ieflaria, originally came across my radar because of how pretty I found the cover. But the series came up again in discussion on Smart Bitches, and I was pleased enough by what I heard there that I went ahead and got all three of these.

Acquired from Amazon:

Search Image, by Julie E. Czerneda. SF. Got this one because Amazon offered me a small credit against the purchase price for recently buying something else by Czerneda. Also because I love her books.

Fortuna, by Kristyn Merbeth. SF/Space opera. Nabbed this one because I won it in a Goodreads giveaway, yo.

The Immortals, by Jordanna Max Brodsky. Urban fantasy. Nabbed this one because it’s book 1 of a series featuring Greek mythology–and in particular, starring Artemis. Partial to Greek mythos, as y’all may recall! And this book was on sale for $1.99 when I nabbed it.

Acquired from Tor.com’s Ebook of the Month mailing promotion:

The Tiger’s Daughter, by K Arsenault Rivera. Fantasy. Gotten for free as I’m on Tor.com’s periodic “here have a free ebook” promotional list.

63 for the year.

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A roundup post, mostly but not exclusively composed of various books I’ve picked up on sale over the last several weeks:

Picked up from Kobo:

Ink and Bone, by Rachel Caine. First in her Great Library series, which I’ve been meaning to read for a while. (Particularly now that she’s said on Twitter she’s fighting cancer. I suspect I’ll be buying a few more of these to do my part to contribute to her book income, because boy howdy she’s gonna need it!)

Among Others, by Jo Walton. SF. This got some very favorable buzz a few years ago when it came out, and it took both a Nebula in 2011 and a Hugo in 2012.

Jade City, by Fonda Lee. Fantasy. This is getting very favorable buzz now, and I finally picked it up after discussing it with one of my book club peeps.

Year One, by Nora Roberts. I’m not sure whether to call this SF or SF romance; given that it’s Nora Roberts, I’m inclined to think the latter is more likely. Either way I perked up a bit when the release of this was announced, since post-apocalyptic SF-ish stories are a pretty new thing for her. Historically I’ve liked her standalone romantic suspense novels better than her forays into paranormal. But given that I also like the SFnal flavor of the J.D. Robbs, I’m very intrigued to see how this turns out.

Picked up from Amazon:

Thorn, by Anna Burke. F/F retelling of Beauty and the Beast? WHY YES I will have some, thank you.

The Revolution Betrayed, by Leon Trotsky. If you look at this and go, “HEY ANNA this is absolutely nothing like anything you usually read,” you would be correct. I picked this up because we read it in book club. Dara has a print copy, but I didn’t want to take it out of the house to read at work while she needed to read it for book club. So I wound up nabbing the ebook version on Kindle.

The Girl of Fire and Thorns, by Rae Carson. This is a YA I’ve been meaning to read for ages, and it going on sale briefly was a good excuse to finally buy it.

The Gossamer Mage, by Julie E. Czerneda. Because Julie Czerneda taking another crack at fantasy? WHY YES I will have some of this too, thank you.

50 for the year.

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So it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, and I’ve gotten quite a few books lately from various sources. Time for another roundup post!

First up, I’ve seen some Romanceland brouhaha going around Twitter this week about yet another round of “but but but THERE WEREN’T ANY BLACK PEOPLE IN THE REGENCY!” One of the many tweets I happened to see from author Courtney Milan on the topic was an RT of a link to Black London: Life before Emancipation, a book from Rutgers University Press that delves into the history of people of color in London. The link offers the book in multiple formats, including the ability to read it online. And, it’s free.

So I nabbed it in EPUB and in MOBI form, because I definitely want to educate myself on this.

Next, from Tor.com:

The Murders of Molly Southbourne, by Tade Thompson. Nabbed this one because it was the free download of the month from the Tor.com mailing list, last month.

From Kobo:

The Only Thing to Fear, by Julie E. Czerneda. A novella in her Web Shifter series, which I grabbed because I am sorely behind on reading her things!
Mixed Signals and Signal Boost, by Alyssa Cole. Books 2 and 3 of her Off the Grid series from Carina. Nabbing these because I finally read book 1, so I’m in to give books 2 and 3 a go. Liking that from what I’m seeing, this seems like a post-apocalyptic story in which there is in fact a recovery from the apocalypse, and I’m very down with that little glimmer of hope.
Rosewater, by Tade Thompson. Nabbed this as I spotted it on sale, and because it’s SF set in Nigeria.
Her Royal Spyness, by Rhys Bowen. Book 1 of the series of the same name, period mysteries starring a young British aristocrat in 1932. She’s nowhere near the throne in the line of succession, and she’s penniless, so what’s she to do? Solve murders, naturally! Grabbed this one as another one I spotted on sale.
Beneath the Sugar Sky, by Seanan McGuire. Book 3 of her Wayward Children series.
Named of the Dragon, by Susanna Kearsley. This is one of hers I’ve already read, but in print and it hasn’t been high on my list to re-read. But the ebook went on sale for cheap, so I nabbed it. Want to give this one another shot as I didn’t quite care for it the first time and I want to see if it reads better a second time through. Having it in ebook form will bump up the chances I’ll take another look.
Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells. SF. Book 2 of The Murderbot Diaries. MURDERBOT! The Toll, by Cherie Priest. A new Gothic by Priest? OH HELL YES sign me up.
The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics, by Olivia Waite. Book 1 of her Feminine Pursuits series, which I am nabbing because OH HELL YES F/F historical romance sign me up for that too.

Dara told me today that if I ever wanted to launch a Patreon, today is the last day to get an account grandfathered in under their current fee structure before they change things around.

Between that, and feeling like my writing really needs a jumpstart, I’ve decided to try this and see if a Patreon would actually help me get going again.

So as of today, y’all, I now have a Patreon up! In keeping with all my various social media accounts, its URL should not surprise any of you:

https://www.patreon.com/annathepiper

There are two tiers, a $1 and a $5. The lower tier gives you immediate access to any posts I make there, as well as early glimpses of works in progress and cover art drafts. (This is stuff I’ve posted about here on angelahighland.com before, but my thinking here is that Patreon supporters will get quicker looks at this stuff before I make it public on the main site.)

The $5 tier will mean at least one piece of short fiction a month, no fewer than 500 words. I have a rough goal here of making this a serialized story, with one of two ideas I’m playing around with. I may in fact take a poll from any supporters as to which story I should pursue first.

And I have an initial goal set of $100. If I make that goal, I will write a new character vignette of no fewer than 1,000 words, featuring any character from any of my published books. Supporters will be able to nominate their choices and vote on who I should write about!

RIGHT THEN. Let’s see what happens with this, shall we?

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Avengers: Endgame

Last year when Infinity War dropped, I put up the post that has my non-spoilery review. Y’all may have noticed that I never got around to posting a full review of the movie. Sorry about that!

But now Avengers: Endgame has dropped. And when my household along with long-time friend Mimi went to see it, Meems asked me whether I liked Infinity War better than Endgame. She preferred Infinity War and was a trifle stunned that I liked Endgame better, hands down.

I told her at the time that this was because for me, even though Marvel backed off of doing these two movies as a Part 1 and Part 2, they really do still function for me as one great big story. And Endgame delivered on concluding what Infinity War set up, beautifully.

So this post is going to be a combination of “review of Endgame” and “discussion of Infinity War and Endgame as a unit”.

Spoiler-free picoreview of Endgame first: I haven’t cried this hard at the tail end of a movie since Return of the King, you guys. There are parts of it that I like less than other parts, and some parts that I feel don’t stand up to close scrutiny, but by and large it was a very, very worthy conclusion to the entire MCU story arc.

Let it also be noted for the record, in case it isn’t obvious: if you haven’t seen Infinity War yet, rent it and get it watched before you see Endgame. And if you haven’t been keeping up with the MCU in general, BOY HOWDY is this not the place to come in.

And in order for this movie’s emotional beats to carry the proper weight, you really, really need to have been keeping up with the MCU. Hell, for a lot of the plot points to make general sense, you really need to have been keeping up with the MCU. I don’t think you absolutely need to have seen every single film in the Infinity Saga (as it’s now being called). But you’ll get the most out of Endgame if you’ve seen most of the saga already.

Now let’s get into the heart of this post, shall we? ALL THE SPOILERS will be behind the cut tag. If you’re reading this directly on angelahighland.com or on my Dreamwidth account, be advised that the comments are also spoiler-friendly territory.

Right then, let’s just get into my reactions, shall we? I’m not going to follow the plot of the two movies directly here. Instead, I’ll focus on the various characters, major and minor, and both individual characters and sets of characters.

The Asgardians

I feel pretty sad for the Asgardians in general, who really get the short end of the stick as a result of this plot. Asgard got obliterated in Thor: Ragnarok, and then Thanos came along in Infinity War and took out half of the survivors even before he did the Snap. It’s not clear how many survivors of that made it to New Asgard on Earth, which we see in Endgame. But it’s clear that there were only a small number, enough to populate a small village.

I’m still sad that Heimdall didn’t survive Infinity War. He hung in there through all three Thor movies, and survived Hela. So seeing him taken out in Infinity War was disappointing. I feel like the New Asgard settlement could really have benefited from having him around. Particularly given how Thor falls apart (more on this below).

That said: I’m pleased Valkyrie stepped up as the new leader of the settlement, and that Thor acknowledged her being worthy (aheh) of the task and abdicated in her favor. I also found it intriguing that she’s the new King of Asgard, not the Queen. Reminds me of “Lord” being used as a gender-neutral term in Elfquest. So does this mean “King” is a gender-neutral term among the Asgardians? If Valkyrie takes a new spouse, will that spouse be the “Queen”? And given that Hela in Ragnarok tried to set herself up as Queen, how does that tie in? Is the use of “King” as a gender-neutral term here a new development among the Asgardians?

This leads me naturally into…

Loki

When Infinity War dropped, one of its bigger surprises for me was that they did in fact kill off Loki.

I’m not as big a Loki fangirl as some, though I am pretty partial to the character. And I do find Hiddleston awfully charming! But the idea of him dying didn’t fill me with near the same dread as, say, losing Captain America. This is partly due to my knowing how comic book mega-plots like this work, and how major characters very, very rarely stay dead. The rest of it is due to my being very, very dubious that Loki, massive fan favorite that he is, would be killed off.

And I was right. Endgame gives us an opportunity to see Loki again, when the team sent to New York in 2012 tries to recover the Time Stone, the Tesseract/Space Stone, and the Mind Stone (the one in Loki’s scepter). We also get to see 2012-Loki seize the opportunity to GTFO with the Tesseract.

Which means of course that some version of Loki is in fact STILL ALIVE. And unaccounted for. And isn’t THAT just innnnnteresting. Particularly given the forthcoming Loki series on Disney’s streaming service that they’re setting up.

Thor

Oh dear gods Thor. Boy, do I have a lot to say about Thor.

He was another emotional core of Infinity War, once the Guardians found him. I really liked the one-on-one scene he had with Rocket, in which it is painfully clear that Thor is barely holding his shit together. Given that he just watched Thanos rip through his surviving people AND kill his brother right in front of him, on the heels of losing Asgard AND his father AND his hammer, losing his shit would be entirely justified.

But he does hold it together (and I appreciated that scene all the more when we went back for a second viewing). He goes and gets himself a shiny new weapon–one which, apparently, does actually have at least a passing connection to an equivalent weapon in the comics, although not one wielded by Thor. (Stormbreaker, for those of you who don’t know, is wielded by Beta Ray Bill. Which I only learned after I looked this up.)

This is another way Infinity War flowed right into Endgame for me, though. Because the Thor we see at the very beginning of Endgame is still the Thor barely holding his shit together. And when that first attempt to take out Thanos lets him actually kill Thanos but makes it entirely meaningless because Thanos has already destroyed the Stones, it’s clear that that’s the point at which Thor falls apart.

When Endgame makes its jump forward five years in the plot, the next time we see Thor, he’s holed up New Asgard hiding from everyone. He’s taken to drinking, and he’s gotten fat as well. He’s clearly got massive PTSD. He’s fucking shattered.

And I’m really ambivalent about how the movie treats him from that point forward. Half of me thinks it was a bold move to show this, and I say this as someone who did her share of ogling shirtless Thor in previous movies. And I do respect the attempt.

On the other hand, how Thor becomes a figure of comedy for most of the rest of the film (up until the final battle) didn’t sit well with me. Some of the scenes with him in Asgard went on too long and worked too hard to drive home the point of “ha ha Thor is a fat drunk now isn’t that funny?” Likewise, his last scene with the Guardians when they went on a little too long with that exchange between him and Quill (though Drax’s line about “you should fight for the honor of leadership” and Mantis’s “YES! KNIVES!” line were both great, lol).

That said, once Thor calls the hammer and exults “I’m still worthy!”, his participation in the plot picks up considerably. It was delightful to see Mjollnir again. More on the hammer below too!

Banner/the Hulk

I was mostly charmed by the Hulk in Infinity War reacting very, very badly to Thanos handing him his ass. Hulk’s used to being able to beat down any opponent, especially after spending a couple of years in the arena during Ragnarok. I totally buy him being freaked out that Thanos laid the smackdown on him.

Plus, it meant that Mark Ruffalo got some of the nicer comic moments in that film. I rather loved him arguing with Hulk, as well as his delight at being able to romp around in the Hulkbuster suit on the battlefield.

In Endgame, it was actually kinda cool to see Bruce reaching a kind of peace with the Hulk and taking on a physical state that combined aspects of both of them. It was also hugely funny to see him like that in contrast to the 2012 Hulk in New York, and only putting up a perfunctory show of smashing things.

For those of you who didn’t see me post this on Facebook or Twitter, a quick reminder: right now all three books of the Rebels of Adalonia books are on sale for 99 cents each. I can confirm this price on Amazon, Nook, Kobo, Google Play, and Apple Books. So you can read the entire trilogy for about three dollars right now!

Leap on it while you can, as the price of these books is NOT in my control and I cannot guarantee how long it’ll last. If you have the books already, please consider spreading the word to any friends or family who might like epic fantasy with religious and political intrigue!

(Particularly given that I have no day job right now, any little bump I can get to my ebook sales would be super helpful. So please do spread the word!)

And come have a look at the official Rebels of Adalonia page to find all the places where you can buy the books.

Herein endeth the promo. Faanshi, Kestar, and Julian thank you for your attention.

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Gotten from Tor.com’s monthly ebook promotion:

Walkaway, by Cory Doctorow. SF. A tale about a group of people who decide to walk away from their futuristic society and what happens when they go off the grid.

Gotten from Kobo:

The Cardinal Rule, by C.E. Murphy. Romantic suspense. This is a book I bought ages ago when it was published under the pen name Cate Dermody. Catie has now revised it and re-released it, now that she’s gotten the rights back. I remember liking this the first time through and will be interested to see how this version is different!

The Raven Tower, by Ann Leckie. Fantasy. This is Leckie’s first fantasy novel, and since I have quite liked her Ancillary books so far, I wanted to give this a shot too.

Total for the year: 29

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