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blappole rated The Bear and the Nightingale: 5 stars
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Winternight Trilogy, #1)
"In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow …
blappole rated The girl in the tower: 5 stars
blappole rated Dragon tears: 5 stars
blappole rated The Hobbit: 5 stars
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It …
blappole rated Secret Commonwealth: 4 stars
Philip Pullman, Christopher Wormell: Secret Commonwealth (2019, Penguin Books, Limited)
Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman, Christopher Wormell
LYRA SILVERTONGUE thought her adventuring days were long over. Now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College, she could almost …
blappole rated How the marquis got his coat back: 4 stars
How the marquis got his coat back by Neil Gaiman
The coat. It was elegant. It was beautiful. It was so close that he could have reached out and touched …
blappole rated Treasure Island: 3 stars
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, N.C. Wyeth
"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first …
blappole rated The Hero of Ages: 5 stars
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era One, #3)
To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness--the lethal …
blappole rated The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2): 5 stars
blappole rated The Name of the Wind: 5 stars
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
"The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan …
blappole rated Neverwhere (London Below, #1): 5 stars
blappole rated Belle Sauvage : the Book of Dust Volume One: 5 stars
Philip Pullman: Belle Sauvage : the Book of Dust Volume One (2017, Random House Children's Books)
Belle Sauvage : the Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman
Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it …
blappole rated Once Upon a Time in the North: 4 stars
Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
In a time before Lyra Silvertongue was born, the tough American balloonist Lee Scoresby and the great armoured bear Iorek …
Good Omens : The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According to …