Book Review: Jasper Fforde’s The Last Dragonslayer
Magic is fading and fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an employment agency for magicians. But then the visions start, predicting the death of the world’s last dragon.
Magic is fading and fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an employment agency for magicians. But then the visions start, predicting the death of the world’s last dragon.
Sheriff Longmire, his friends, and deputies go back fifty years into a woman’s dramatic Basque past to learn why Mari Baroja was poisoned.
On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer’s past…and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war.
Healing since the shoot-out, it’s Dave Robicheaux’s morphine-addled mind that conjures spectral visions of Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman who really has gone missing. He becomes a man obsessed as he unearths connections between global and personal tragedies, facing down forces that can corrupt and destroy the best of men.
Terry Yazzi, his former partner and the man responsible for ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney’s wounds, pleads for Kerney’s help. Yazzi’s son, a soldier, has disappeared in the barren desert surrounding the White Sands Missile Range.
Lizzy Tucker, the cupcake-baker-turned-finder-of-lost-things, has partnered up, reluctantly, with Diesel in a race against his evil cousin, Wulf, to find the treasure.
Deuce and Fade, two young people in a New York City decimated by war and plague, face dangers when their elders refuse to listen to their warnings.
Her half sister, Laura, is the Antichrist – contingent on her killing her sister, Betsy. When Laura’s mother is Satan, you know family gatherings will always be more than a little awkward.
A spell, the spel,l was cast, turning me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I’ll tell you how I became perfectly . . . beastly.
]Her antiques business thriving and so much to lose, Josie Prescott can’t help but worry when murder invades her seemingly quiet community.