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REVIEW: The Smoke Thief by Shana Abé

Dear Ms. Abé, Imagine a place so ripe and thick with the promise of magic that the very air breathes in plumes of pearl and gray and smoky blue; that the trees bow with the weight of their heavy branches, dipping low to the ground, dropping needles and leaves into beds of perfume. A place(…)

REVIEW: Archangel by Sharon Shinn

Dear Ms. Shinn, I think Archangel is a wonderful book. One might even say heavenly. Most of the inhabitants of Samaria are mortals, but the world also has angels who, by taking wing and praying to the god Jovah through song can ask the god for favorable weather and other aid. Once a year, the(…)