Billed as the first podiobook, Tee Morris has created a gem of a story here regardless of the format. Part fantasy, part noir detective novel, Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword had me laughing out loud at times....

A fun adventure full of colorful characters, intrigue, magic, and, of course, the King's Blades....

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Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell is a "Caribbean style" science fiction novel with a little bit different style because of that. While I did enjoy the world building, I wasn't initially intrigued enough to jump into the next book in the series. Eventually I did, though, and I loved Buckell's other installments....

A list of interesting words I discovered as I read The Alchemist's Pursuit by Dave Duncan....

Duncan delivers another gripping tale set in the (mostly) historically accurate Venice of yesteryear....

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Pratt goes to great length to tell us how much of a bad ass Mason is, yet we never see that reflected in the unfolding story. It's for that reason that I'm reluctant to go ahead with this series....