To Purr Is Divine: Six Books With Magical Cats

This is not today’s Wyrd & Wonder prompt. This is the reading Athena at One Reading Nurse brought to it, and the moment she said it, I knew what I had to do – Make like a cat and steal it. So here we are. Many thanks to Athena for her reading, all credit, and […]

Top Five Tuesday: Fire (Nation)

Welcome to Top Five Tuesday, where we’re once again learning Meeghan is a woman of taste. This month’s themes are in tribute to the Avatar series, which I’m taking very literally, and we are now travelling to the Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Shanah, the Bionic Book Worm, and now hosted by Meeghan […]

The Grave Is No Bar: Six Books With Some Necromancy

The theme of this Wyrd & Wonder list is exactly what it says on the tin. Necromancy. Lets see what books I awaken from their slumber for this one… 1. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir We’ll start with a gimme. If this book was any more morbid, it’d be thrown out of Sisters of […]

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Recommended

Since Wyrd and Wonder coincided with a Top Ten Tuesday topic, it seemed rude not to join in. Even if it’s a day late and this one presents a bit of a problem for me. See, when you’ve made 982 posts over the last two and not quite a half years, you talk about your […]

Top Five Tuesday: Earth (Kingdom)

Welcome to Top Five Tuesday, where today we’re learning Meeghan is a woman of taste. This month’s themes are in tribute to the Avatar series and we are now travelling to the Earth Kingdom, where they don’t encourage this sort of behaviour At all. Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by Shanah, the Bionic Book […]

Hidden Histories: Six Inspirations for Historical Fantasy

I had been going to skip this one but I read something that turned cogwheels in my head. Blame Imyril and this line in particular: “if you’ve inserted magic into the past, you’re no longer being historical” Thing is that for just about all of human history, people have believed in what we broadly call […]

Places of Power: Six Magical Locations

Today’s Wyrd & Wonder prompt is Magical Locations. Now, me, I love a good magical location. The sort of place that simply isn’t possible without the sort of forces we can only imagine. So here are six of the best… Mkalis, Kerstin Hall’s Mkalis Cycle Mkalis is the spiritworld, the otherworld in Kerstin Hall’s series […]