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Apr. 5th, 2010
March Book List
Apr. 5th, 2010 06:08 pmMar 7th: Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers: One of those classics I'd always meant to get to reading. So I was glad to grab this off the clearance rack at 1/2 Price. Turns out D'Artagnan and his friends are kind of assholes...
Mar 9th: Raymond E. Feist - Magician: Apprentice: And after that I was just in a mood to reread Feist's Midkemian series from the beginning. Here we have the start for Pug and Thomas and the invasion of the Kingdom of the Isles by the Tsurani...
Mar 10th: Feist - Magician: Master: Pug becomes Milamber, the Magician of Two Worlds as the Tsurani invasion draws to its end...
Feist - Silverthrn: An assasination attempt on Prince Arutha leaves his new bride Anita poisoned and on the brink of death. Sending him and his companions on a frantic quest to try and find a near-mythical cure...
Mar 12th: Scott Westerfeld - Leviathan: World War I begins as normal with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Which sends his son Aleksander fleeing into the night in walking war machine with several loyal family retainers. At the same time a training mishap has girl-disguised-as-a-boy Deryn taken aboard as the newest junior crewman of the Leviathan, one of Britain's flying bio-engineered living airships...
Mar 14th: Feist - A Darkness at Sethanon: Prince Arutha and his companions go forth in secret to deal with the dark elf war lord Murmandas. And Pug and Thomas (now Dragon Lord and the elven war leader) travel off-world to find the mysterious sorcerer Macros the Black, as they sense they'll need his aid against the dark forces behind Murmandas...
Mar 16th: Feist - Prince of the Blood: Years after the end of the Riftwar Prince Arutha's twin sons journey on a diplomatic mission to the Empire of Kesh for the Empress' Birthday Jubilee. But even before they begin murder and treachery beset them...
Feist - King's Buccaneer: A devastating and brutal raid on the towns of the Far Coast has Prince Arutha's youngest Nicholas sailing on a desperate rescue attempt to the distant and unknown continent of Novindus...
Mar 17th - P.N. Elrod (ed.) - Strange Brew: Centered around stories about modern spell-slinging and potion-brewing witches this anthology was the first of these in awhile where I liked the majority of the stories enough to keep it...
Mar 19th: Feist - Shadows of a Dark Queen: Young Erik is the unacknowledged elder son of Baron VonDarkmoor though he just wants to be a simple village smith. But when he murders his brutal half-brother Stefan Erik and his friend Rupert flee the duchy. This leads to their capture, trial and drafting into a secret army unit. One meant for a return to the lands of Novindus...
Mar 20th: Feist - Rise of a Merchant Prince: The Serpentwar continues with the newly pardoned Rupert Avery seeking to become one of the Kingdom's richest men. Erik though rejoins the army to help prepare for the coming threat of hordes of the Emerald Queen...
Feist - Rage of a Demon King: As the Emerald Queen's forces begin their invasion, the armies of the Kingdom of the Isles stands outnumbered against them. And when Pug barely survives the discovery of the Queen's replacement by a demon lord he once more must track down Macros the Black...
Mar 22nd: Feist - Shards of a Broken Crown: Even with the demon master destroyed the armies of the Emerald Queen still control much of the Western Realm and Erik VonDarkmoor must marshal the remains of the Western Army to drive them out. And do so before Kesh becomes too adventuresome. Pug and his allies seek to make sure no further demonic intruders find their way to Midkemia...
Mar 24th: Patricia Briggs - Cry Wolf: The first of Brigg's Alpha & Omega werewolf series, set in the same world as her Mercy Thompson books...
Elmore Leonard - Be Cool: The sequel to Leonard's Get Shorty, with Chili Palmer getting involved in the music industry as he trys to work out his next movie. A good book that was made into a sub-par movie...
Mar 25th: Feist - Talon of the Silver Hawk: The youth Talon is the last survivor of the Orosini tribes. And to avenge his people he'll become a tool of the Conclave of Shadows and its master Pug, now the Black Sorcerer...
Mar 26th: Elizabeth Moon - Oath of Fealty: After two decades Moon returns to her fantasy world of Paksenarrion. And while the paladin hero of the original trilogy is present this first of three books is centered more on several supporting characters from before...
Mar 27th: Feist - King of Foxes: To gain his revenge Talon aka Talwin Hawkins has taken service with Kaspar of Olasku, the man who ordered his people's destruction. And while he can never break oath he waits, committing whatever dark deed is asked, knowing that eventually Kaspar will break faith with him...
Feist - Exile's Return: Exiled by Talon's mercy to the devastated lands of Novindus, Kaspar struggles to survive. To survive and return to his homeland and reclaim what is his. But their he discovers a strange and potentially terrible artifact. And so he must find a way to ally himself with the Conclave of Shadows, who had set up his downfall...
Mar 29th: Timothy Zahn - Night Train to Rigel: This futuristic piece of espionage takes a good while to really get moving. And the protagonist, Frank Compton, seems to solve the mystery threat mostly by letting himself be moved around by others. Though the ending was strong enough that I'll check out more of the series...
Mar 30th: Feist - Flight of the Nighthawks: Pug's younger son Caleb is taking his lover's young sons off to find apprenticeships. But after he barely survives a bandit attack only with their help Zane and Tad end up in training to serve the Conclave. Just as deadly off-world forces stir and the legendary Nighthawks, the Guild of Death thought extinguished over a hundred years earlier by Prince Arutha and Jimmy the Hand, return in the capitol of Kesh...
Mar 31st: Feist - Into a Dark Realm: Pug, his son Magnus and the trickster Nakor must find a way into the deadly lower realm of the Dasati. The alien race which threatens both Midkemia and Kelewan the homeworld of the Tsurani...
A. Lee Martinez - Divine Misfortune: Tired of being passed by because they lack personal divine favor Phil and Terry decide to acquire their own patron god. And they end up deciding on minor prosperity god, the raccoon-headed Luka. Who promptly moves into their guest room...
Total Books: 23
Mar 9th: Raymond E. Feist - Magician: Apprentice: And after that I was just in a mood to reread Feist's Midkemian series from the beginning. Here we have the start for Pug and Thomas and the invasion of the Kingdom of the Isles by the Tsurani...
Mar 10th: Feist - Magician: Master: Pug becomes Milamber, the Magician of Two Worlds as the Tsurani invasion draws to its end...
Feist - Silverthrn: An assasination attempt on Prince Arutha leaves his new bride Anita poisoned and on the brink of death. Sending him and his companions on a frantic quest to try and find a near-mythical cure...
Mar 12th: Scott Westerfeld - Leviathan: World War I begins as normal with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Which sends his son Aleksander fleeing into the night in walking war machine with several loyal family retainers. At the same time a training mishap has girl-disguised-as-a-boy Deryn taken aboard as the newest junior crewman of the Leviathan, one of Britain's flying bio-engineered living airships...
Mar 14th: Feist - A Darkness at Sethanon: Prince Arutha and his companions go forth in secret to deal with the dark elf war lord Murmandas. And Pug and Thomas (now Dragon Lord and the elven war leader) travel off-world to find the mysterious sorcerer Macros the Black, as they sense they'll need his aid against the dark forces behind Murmandas...
Mar 16th: Feist - Prince of the Blood: Years after the end of the Riftwar Prince Arutha's twin sons journey on a diplomatic mission to the Empire of Kesh for the Empress' Birthday Jubilee. But even before they begin murder and treachery beset them...
Feist - King's Buccaneer: A devastating and brutal raid on the towns of the Far Coast has Prince Arutha's youngest Nicholas sailing on a desperate rescue attempt to the distant and unknown continent of Novindus...
Mar 17th - P.N. Elrod (ed.) - Strange Brew: Centered around stories about modern spell-slinging and potion-brewing witches this anthology was the first of these in awhile where I liked the majority of the stories enough to keep it...
Mar 19th: Feist - Shadows of a Dark Queen: Young Erik is the unacknowledged elder son of Baron VonDarkmoor though he just wants to be a simple village smith. But when he murders his brutal half-brother Stefan Erik and his friend Rupert flee the duchy. This leads to their capture, trial and drafting into a secret army unit. One meant for a return to the lands of Novindus...
Mar 20th: Feist - Rise of a Merchant Prince: The Serpentwar continues with the newly pardoned Rupert Avery seeking to become one of the Kingdom's richest men. Erik though rejoins the army to help prepare for the coming threat of hordes of the Emerald Queen...
Feist - Rage of a Demon King: As the Emerald Queen's forces begin their invasion, the armies of the Kingdom of the Isles stands outnumbered against them. And when Pug barely survives the discovery of the Queen's replacement by a demon lord he once more must track down Macros the Black...
Mar 22nd: Feist - Shards of a Broken Crown: Even with the demon master destroyed the armies of the Emerald Queen still control much of the Western Realm and Erik VonDarkmoor must marshal the remains of the Western Army to drive them out. And do so before Kesh becomes too adventuresome. Pug and his allies seek to make sure no further demonic intruders find their way to Midkemia...
Mar 24th: Patricia Briggs - Cry Wolf: The first of Brigg's Alpha & Omega werewolf series, set in the same world as her Mercy Thompson books...
Elmore Leonard - Be Cool: The sequel to Leonard's Get Shorty, with Chili Palmer getting involved in the music industry as he trys to work out his next movie. A good book that was made into a sub-par movie...
Mar 25th: Feist - Talon of the Silver Hawk: The youth Talon is the last survivor of the Orosini tribes. And to avenge his people he'll become a tool of the Conclave of Shadows and its master Pug, now the Black Sorcerer...
Mar 26th: Elizabeth Moon - Oath of Fealty: After two decades Moon returns to her fantasy world of Paksenarrion. And while the paladin hero of the original trilogy is present this first of three books is centered more on several supporting characters from before...
Mar 27th: Feist - King of Foxes: To gain his revenge Talon aka Talwin Hawkins has taken service with Kaspar of Olasku, the man who ordered his people's destruction. And while he can never break oath he waits, committing whatever dark deed is asked, knowing that eventually Kaspar will break faith with him...
Feist - Exile's Return: Exiled by Talon's mercy to the devastated lands of Novindus, Kaspar struggles to survive. To survive and return to his homeland and reclaim what is his. But their he discovers a strange and potentially terrible artifact. And so he must find a way to ally himself with the Conclave of Shadows, who had set up his downfall...
Mar 29th: Timothy Zahn - Night Train to Rigel: This futuristic piece of espionage takes a good while to really get moving. And the protagonist, Frank Compton, seems to solve the mystery threat mostly by letting himself be moved around by others. Though the ending was strong enough that I'll check out more of the series...
Mar 30th: Feist - Flight of the Nighthawks: Pug's younger son Caleb is taking his lover's young sons off to find apprenticeships. But after he barely survives a bandit attack only with their help Zane and Tad end up in training to serve the Conclave. Just as deadly off-world forces stir and the legendary Nighthawks, the Guild of Death thought extinguished over a hundred years earlier by Prince Arutha and Jimmy the Hand, return in the capitol of Kesh...
Mar 31st: Feist - Into a Dark Realm: Pug, his son Magnus and the trickster Nakor must find a way into the deadly lower realm of the Dasati. The alien race which threatens both Midkemia and Kelewan the homeworld of the Tsurani...
A. Lee Martinez - Divine Misfortune: Tired of being passed by because they lack personal divine favor Phil and Terry decide to acquire their own patron god. And they end up deciding on minor prosperity god, the raccoon-headed Luka. Who promptly moves into their guest room...
Total Books: 23
