Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall Trilogy kicks off with this riveting and poetic first installment, in which Menolly -- a gifted musician who dreams of becoming a Harper -- meets a band of fire lizards and becomes their teacher. The beginning to an entrancing fantasy series that McCaffrey fans (as well as Tamora Pierce and Marion Zimmer Bradley lovers) won't want to miss.
We’ve already told you why you need to read Updraft, Fran Wilde’s debut fantasy; in brief: it’s an awesome teenage girl’s coming-of-age adventure, with a complex political undercurrent, set in an intriguing post-apocalyptic world in which society clings to life atop rising towers of living bone. It’s surprising, and scary, and fresh, and we can’t […]
In her beloved, indispensable Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, a portal fantasy spanning Earth and the angel- and chimaera-populated land of Eretz, Laini Taylor established her bona fides as a creator of rich, expansive worlds, author of impossible love stories, and spinner of narrative spells. In Strange the Dreamer, the first in a planned duology that’s out […]