Next week we shall buy more books
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thanateThis is the entry that the last two entries were going to become before they outgrew their intro status:
Stephanie Burgess is stuck in the cross-fire of the nonsense between Barns & Noble and Simon & Schuster and looking at rather bleak prospects for the third of her trilogy. I know I've recommended her Kat, Incorrigible before, though possibly not here-- it's a lovely little book set in Regency-with-Magic England, following the adventures of a madcap twelve-year-old and her family. Older readers who are familiar with other regency adventures (either Hayer-style or Wrede/Stevermer-esque) will see some fun being had with familiar tropes, and younger readers will get a good story and a good intro to that sort of genre. The second book Renegade Magic, takes place in Bath, so aside from a brush with fashionable society there's also fun with the baths and notes of classical scholarship of the era. Obviously I haven't read the third one yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
So I think next week we'll be ordering all three, in hopes that not only will the Megatherium have them to enjoy in six or seven years, but just maybe they won't tank so badly as a series that the publisher is discouraged from buying more in the same vein.
And while I'm at it, Martha Wells' Emilie and the Hollow World is out next week, too (yay!) which is also a semi-historical adventure with a girl protagonist, though I believe it's marketed as YA rather than middle grade. But-- spunky heroine stows away on a voyage of research and exploration in a Vernean steampunk universe! What's not to love?
Stephanie Burgess is stuck in the cross-fire of the nonsense between Barns & Noble and Simon & Schuster and looking at rather bleak prospects for the third of her trilogy. I know I've recommended her Kat, Incorrigible before, though possibly not here-- it's a lovely little book set in Regency-with-Magic England, following the adventures of a madcap twelve-year-old and her family. Older readers who are familiar with other regency adventures (either Hayer-style or Wrede/Stevermer-esque) will see some fun being had with familiar tropes, and younger readers will get a good story and a good intro to that sort of genre. The second book Renegade Magic, takes place in Bath, so aside from a brush with fashionable society there's also fun with the baths and notes of classical scholarship of the era. Obviously I haven't read the third one yet, but I'm looking forward to it.
So I think next week we'll be ordering all three, in hopes that not only will the Megatherium have them to enjoy in six or seven years, but just maybe they won't tank so badly as a series that the publisher is discouraged from buying more in the same vein.
And while I'm at it, Martha Wells' Emilie and the Hollow World is out next week, too (yay!) which is also a semi-historical adventure with a girl protagonist, though I believe it's marketed as YA rather than middle grade. But-- spunky heroine stows away on a voyage of research and exploration in a Vernean steampunk universe! What's not to love?