Publisher: Gollancz
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Lud-in-the-Mist
Lud-in-the-MistHope Mirrlees (Affiliate Links) The town of Lud is a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Hills, is a source of great trial to Lud, which…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… The Caged Queen
For those that loved the The Last Namsara, the sequel The Caged Queen brings back your favourite characters but with a new POV!
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Uptown Oracle Reads… The Falconer
Edinburgh, 1844. Eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameronhas everything a girl could dream of: brains, charm, wealth, a title—and drop-dead beauty. But she’s leading a double life: She has a rare ability to sense the sìthíchean and, with the aid of a mysterious mentor, has spent the year since her mother died learning how to kill them.…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Elysium Fire
Ten thousand habitats orbit Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs police. For the Glitter Band the police are the prefects of Panopoly. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… The Last Namsara
Asha is a dragon hunter. The fiercest, most feared person in the city of Firgaard and branded the Iskari. The old stories give power to dragons, and so the stories have been outlawed by the Dragon King. What he doesn’t know is that his daughter uses these stories to help catch them. As Asha learns…
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Uptown Oracle reads… Revenger
I received Revenger by Alastair Reynolds as an e-book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I was completely and utterly entranced by Revenger. After reading multiple books which were kinda ‘eh’ I was thrown out of my reading habit because I was bored. Revenger manged to reel me straight back…