December Books 2
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ellarienThe rest: also with possible spoilers.
Jim Butcher, Cursor's Fury
Tavi, the one man without control over the elemental spirits called Furies in the Romanesque realm of Alera, enters on his duties as a Cursor -- something between a messenger and a spy in the Bond sense -- by joining the army under a false name, and finds himself fighting a desperate defensive action when the canine Cani (don't blame me! I don't know what it is with Jim Butcher and bad Latin) invade in force. As usual, he manages pretty well with native wit. In this installment we also find out a lot more about who Tavi really is and the circumstances of his birth -- but he doesn't, yet.
John Mortimer, Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
The scruffy, defense-only barrister [lawyer, for Americans) goes up against the post-9/11 establishment when he has to defend a Pakistani doctor accused of terrorist links. He goes about it in his inimitable style, despite serious doubts, rules he isn't accustomed to working under, and attempts at discouragement by the other side. Meanwhile, his redoubtable wife is working on her memoirs.
Michelle Sagara, Cast in Silence
A messenger from her past draws Kaylin back into the dangerous world of the fiefs -- not Nightshade, this time, but the even nastier place where she spent a brief time in between leaving Nightshade and coming to the Hawklord. There, with Severn and the (relatively) young dragonlord Tiamaris, she finds herself confronting not only the stirring evil at the heart of the fiefs and the nature of the Towers, but the darkness in her own past that she's kept hidden for years.
Jim Butcher, Cursor's Fury
Tavi, the one man without control over the elemental spirits called Furies in the Romanesque realm of Alera, enters on his duties as a Cursor -- something between a messenger and a spy in the Bond sense -- by joining the army under a false name, and finds himself fighting a desperate defensive action when the canine Cani (don't blame me! I don't know what it is with Jim Butcher and bad Latin) invade in force. As usual, he manages pretty well with native wit. In this installment we also find out a lot more about who Tavi really is and the circumstances of his birth -- but he doesn't, yet.
John Mortimer, Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
The scruffy, defense-only barrister [lawyer, for Americans) goes up against the post-9/11 establishment when he has to defend a Pakistani doctor accused of terrorist links. He goes about it in his inimitable style, despite serious doubts, rules he isn't accustomed to working under, and attempts at discouragement by the other side. Meanwhile, his redoubtable wife is working on her memoirs.
Michelle Sagara, Cast in Silence
A messenger from her past draws Kaylin back into the dangerous world of the fiefs -- not Nightshade, this time, but the even nastier place where she spent a brief time in between leaving Nightshade and coming to the Hawklord. There, with Severn and the (relatively) young dragonlord Tiamaris, she finds herself confronting not only the stirring evil at the heart of the fiefs and the nature of the Towers, but the darkness in her own past that she's kept hidden for years.
