The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 194

Gryphon Precinct by Keith R.A. DeCandido

Goodreads Blurb: Humans and elves, dwarves and gnomes, wizards and warriors all live and do business in the thriving, overcrowded port city of Cliff’s End, to say nothing of the tourists and travelers who arrive by land and sea, passing through the metropolis on matters of business or pleasure–or on quests. The hard-working, under-appreciated officers of the Cliff’s End Castle Guard work day and night to maintain law and order as best they can.

Cliff’s End is rocked by the death of Lord Albin. As soon as the funeral ends, Albin’s son Blayk takes over and starts instituting wholesale changes in how the Cliff’s End Castle Guard is run: enforced retirements of older guards (including Captain Osric), surprise promotions (including Grovis to replace Osric as Captain of the Guard), sword requalifications for all guards, and much more.

Worse, Blayk has split up Lieutenants Torin ban Wyvald and Danthres Tresyllione and given them new partners. Lieutenant Dru, still devastated by the loss of Lieutenant Hawk, also has a new partner. All three detectives catch separate cases, but the more they investigate, the more they realize that all three are related–and connected to a conspiracy that targets the King and Queen themselves!

An all-new adventure of the Cliff’s End Castle Guard!

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: A fun and thrilling romp through the world of political conspiracy. My favourite one of these books yet 📚

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 176

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

Goodreads Blurb: There was an eighth son of an eighth son. He was, quite naturally, a wizard. And there it should have ended. However (for reasons we’d better not go into), he had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son… a wizard squared… a source of magic… a Sourcerer.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: This was the first Discworld book I ever read when I was a kid. And you always fear when you come back to a book as an adult that it’s never going to be as good as you remember it. Thank all the Discworld Gods that didn’t end up being the case – if anything it was better 😁

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The Wee Writing Lassie and Ailish Sinclair present “Will the real Alexander please stand up?” – Question 14: If push came to shove, what would they say is their greatest flaw

It would be what he calls his ‘messed-up head,’ his sometimes disordered thinking and the bad choices he makes. He really wants to fix that here at the beginning of the book.

Excerpt: I lie down on the stone and stare up at the sky. I do this for a long time. The puffy clouds change as I look at them; they elongate and stretch out into something smoother and harder looking. All golden on top but dark and red down below. Like me. Golden on the outside, so people say anyway, but dark and messed-up inside. And I need to change, like the clouds have just done. I need to take back what should never have been given away.

Alexander: Dancing with Fire

When Alexander turns eighteen, he learns that he has inherited a castle, the one that houses the dance school he attends, to be exact. He’s always wanted a do-over, a chance to fix the broken parts of himself and his life. Could this be it?

Instead of allowing the school to continue on as normal, Alexander throws the students and teachers out and claims the castle as his own.

At first he’s lonely. At first he’s hesitant. Will he have any friends left after this? The events of his uncle’s televised wedding at the castle prove that, while Alexander definitely still has friends, his broken ankle is actually the least damaged part of him.

Within the ancient castle walls, a world of dark family secrets is revealed. Join Alexander as he dances on the edge of sanity and survival, navigating through the flames of his turbulent past to forge a new future.

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