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....

I didn't love Farthing, but I did find quite a few interesting words while reading....

Farthing has a style that is easy to read and holds the reader's attention fairly well, but ultimately I just didn't find enough going on here to give it a recommendation....

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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