The Lost Gate: A Novel of the Mither Mages
Publishers Weekly: Card's newest series opener can't decide whether it's a thought experiment featuring a nifty magic system, a YA urban fantasy, or a series of fantasy interludes, so it settles for performing all three tasks satisfactorily, if not spectacularly. Danny North, descendant of exiled mages from another world, is taken aback when he comes […]
The Gate Thief
From the Publisher “Mr. Card is giving a kind of tour of fantasy possibilities while integrating them into his intricately imagined system of magic. One of the system's charms is that it explains such a lot: what ghosts are (the fading “outselves†that mages can project), what fairies are (playful creations that mages make from […]
Blue Magic
Kirkus Reviews Sequel to Indigo Springs (2009), where magic, driven into the "unreal" in the 17th century by witch-burning Fyremen, is returning, setting off power struggles and war. In the unreal, magic (a blue substance called vitagua) is frozen into glaciers and as it melts it trickles back into our world. The process can be […]
Indigo Springs
Kirkus Reviews Magic, driven underground in the 17th century, is trying to return-but will the result be salvation or apocalypse?After her father dies, Astrid Lethewood is astonished to discover that he was far from the drunken wastrel the town of Indigo Springs, Ore., assumed. In fact, he crafted, of magical objects called "chantments," a lipstick […]
Starling House
Bury our Bones in the Midnight Soil
All the Windwracked Stars
Jackie Cassada – Library Journal Ragnarok has come and gone, and with it, the destruction of the world-except for the failed Valkyrie Muire and her valraven, Kasimir, the winged steed of the Valkyrie. Out of their survival arises a new world, in which magic and technology combine to create something new yet achingly familiar. Two […]