February 20, 2018

Not that I think many people use it, but my book recommendations page was kinda a pre-2011 wasteland, so in a fit of virtue I went in and added a list of the 10 or 12 favorite books that I read last year. Yay new content. (My links page is also a wasteland, but I dunno when I'll have that degree of virtue....)

A little blending of the real world with fantasyland for this week's SpiderForest spotlights!

Spare Keys for Strange Doors by Lucy Lyall - Two experts in the supernatural help ordinary people with their extraordinary problems. Please note: results are guaranteed, but satisfaction is not.

XII: Of Magic and Muses by Kristen Kiomall-Evans - Willow lives in a mundane and restricted school, which ends up being the worst place someone could get gifted a magical necklace. Desperately trying to contain the magic within, this act of futility seems to just make matters worse. As the necklace crumbles the school's secrets around her, Willow is left to wonder if it was a gift sent by friend or foe?

Damsels Don't Wear Glasses by Jessica "Alice" Bown- In Persephone, an impossible city of myth, magic and mystery, Lave Faraday is chosen to look after a boy from another world. Now she must fight off the less than savory denizens who seek to take him for their own purposes.