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Book reviews and reader log for books categorized as Fantasy

The City & the City

★★★★★
Police have to solve a crime in the city-state of Beszel, a bizarre place which shares streets and neighbourhoods with the equally bizarre city state of Ul Qoma

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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

★★★★★
Years after English magic is thought dead, a magician Mr. Norrell comes forth to help England in the Napoleonic wars

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Odd and The Frost Giants

★★★☆☆
Norse mythology retold as a children's adventure story

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The Dark Tower 2: The Drawing of the Three

★★★★☆
The gunslinger travels to New York, in our world, and enters the minds of three different people at different times

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The Arabian Nights Entertainments

★★★☆☆
A collection of folk-tales from the Arab world, from the Islamic golden age

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The Name of the Wind

★★★★★
Kvothe relates the story of his life, the tale of how he grew from a gifted child to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen

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The Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger

★★★★☆
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came...

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The Return of the King

★★★★★
The magnificent and thrilling conclusion of the quest to destroy the one ring

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

★★★☆☆
A carnival unexpectedly comes to town, and its far more sinister than rides and attractions

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The Two Towers

★★★★★
The fellowship has disintegrated, but the quest continues to destroy the one ring

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Long Live Evil

★☆☆☆☆
A terminally ill girl is given the chance to enter the universe of her favourite book and perform a task in exchange for recovery

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The Ocean at The End of the Lane

★★★★☆
A man returns to his hometown, and slowly recollects a series of strange and magical events that happened in his childhood.

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The Fellowship of the Ring

★★★★★
Frodo Baggins inherits a ring which must be destroyed; the motley crew which accompanies him on his perilous task is the "fellowship"

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Apprentice to the Villain

★★★☆☆
Evie stages a daring rescue of the boss from a public event, and they start a hunt to uncover her mother's legacy

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Assistant to the Villain

★★★☆☆
A viral tik-tok series that grew into a book series, it is an office comedy set in a swords-and-sorcery world with anachronisms galore

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Throne of Glass

★★☆☆☆
In a world where magic is dying, a young assassin is rescued from prison to be a champion in a tournament

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