Book #124 of 2024: Stone Speaks to Stone by Victoria Goddard A roughly-standalone prequel novella to author Victoria Goddard’s Greenwing & Dart series (which is itself just a smaller piece of her overarching Nine Worlds fantasy saga). I’ve chosen to read it after the first three G&D novels, which feels like the right choice, as …
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Book #113 of 2024: Whiskeyjack by Victoria Goddard (Greenwing & Dart #3) Another noticeable step forward for this Regency-pastiche fantasy series, though still not quite strong enough to clear the three-star rating tier for me. (I thought it might for a while, but the lengthy scene where Jemis applies esoteric Kabbalistic cryptography to decipher a …
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Book #102 of 2024: Bee Sting Cake by Victoria Goddard (Greenwing & Dart #2) I’m still not loving the Greenwing & Dart sub-series nearly as much as the other books I’ve read in author Victoria Goddard’s broader Nine Worlds saga, but this second volume is a marked improvement over the first. Taking place only a …
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Book #80 of 2024: Stargazy Pie by Victoria Goddard (Greenwing & Dart #1) Two-out-of-five stars, which is the lowest I’ve rated any of the dozen or so books that I’ve read by author Victoria Goddard thus far. I’m heartened that this 2016 novel is one of her earlier works, because it means I know firsthand …
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