Book Review: Patricia A. McKillip’s Ombria in Shadow
Brimming with secrets and ghosts, the wicked regent will find Ombria a resistant city, even as she throws all that was precious to the prince to the streets.
Brimming with secrets and ghosts, the wicked regent will find Ombria a resistant city, even as she throws all that was precious to the prince to the streets.
An anthology of four short stories that you’ll hope you never have to experience on a date!
Psychics all over the city are being murdered and a piece of the past, half-demon bounty hunter Dante Valentine thought she’d buried, is stalking the night with a vengeance.
The beautiful Gloha is the only creature of her kind in all of Xanth, and she wonders where she would find the one true love with whom she could share her life. She’s sure that the Good Magician Humfrey can answer this riddle. But Humfrey, for mysterious reasons of his own, sends her on a perilous quest.
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Physikby Angie Sage fantasy in a hardcover edition that was published by Katherine Tegen Books on March 27, 2007 and has 545 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Flyte, Queste, Syren, Darke, FyreThird in the Septimus Heap fantasy series for middle-grade readers. My Take I’ve finally figured out why I enjoy this whimsical, fantasy series so much — it’s the focus the books have on seeing everything from the children’s rather adult perspectives. I adore the detail and feel of the scenes which Sage writes as well as the connection she builds between the reader and the characters. Each is an individual and one bonds with them. In this third installment of the Septimus Heap series, Septimus is enthralled with the medical discoveries of a, he thinks, 500-year-dead wizard. Naturally, Marcia, his boss, thinks it’s dreadful nonsense and insists that Sep study for his upcoming predictions test. Unfortunately for everyone, Septimus’ dad, Silas, has just unSealed a Sealed […]
Unseen and unsuspected, this realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves is now threatened with exposure by a brutal series of bizarre murders that has left even the supernatural world baffled—and cold with terror….
Extra Ordinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand is trailed by a menacing Darke Shadow, Jenna is enjoying life as a princess, and Simon, Septimus’ brother, is bent on revenge, even as Septimus Heap learns his craft.
An anthology of eight short stories in the Women of the Otherworld urban fantasy series.
An anthology of 15 stories whose themes revolve around a magic shop. This is a nice collection as the stories vary greatly.
Slave. Swordwielder. Spy. Some girls have all the luck…