My rating: 5 of 5 stars
[This review may contain spoilers.]
It’s quite rare for me to give a book five stars, so when I tell you that this one deserves all five of them I’m not messing. I’ve previously read (and enjoyed) indie author H. L. Burke‘s fantasy series, The Dragon & The Scholar, so I already had some strong expectations when I started Beggar Magic, and it’s fair to say that her latest work has exceeded those expectations.
The High Window by Raymond Chandler
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the third of Chandler’s novels featuring hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe, and the first that I hadn’t previously read as a kid. As a result I was coming to this book with an almost entirely fresh perspective. Nor was I disappointed.
Floating Worlds by Cecelia Holland
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I did enjoy Floating Worlds, though not as much as I expected to.
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I originally read the Sandman comics when they first came out in the late eighties and I’ve never stopped loving them. Over the years I’ve owned and lost the entire series several times over, so when I managed to get my hands on the collected graphic novels for the umpteenth time I decided to start rereading them from the beginning.
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