#68 Blood Red by Mercedes Lackey

Another Elemental Masters book but for a change it isn't set in England. The setting starts in Germany but moves further East in a hunt on werewolves. The opening chapter is a reprint of a short story from the collection Elemental Masters and that is really the only part that follows Little Red Riding Hood. The adult Rosamund does wear a red cape to honor her teacher that was killed by a werewolf and she doesn't trust werewolves when she is introduced to one from a family that has been cursed for generations. There is the usual light romance feel to the story as with most of the Elemental Master books. A nice light read and a good change of pace from England.

#69 Rocket Girl Volume 1: Times Squared by Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder

In 2014 New York cops are all teenagers in this alternate reality. Dayoung Johansson is an officer who goes back in time to try and get to the bottom of a potential crime. But what we find out is the company she is investigating wanted her to go back in the first place. This covers the first five issues of the comic and the art is really good but there isn't enough story for me to want to continue to pick it up after this collection. The story does follow both time streams as things progress but the reader never finds out just how things got changed so much in the future.

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#70 Fables, Vol. 20: Camelot by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham

This collection has to do with the aftermath of taking down Mr Dark for the hopefully final time and Rose Red taking up the mantle of Hope of Second Chances. Rose is going for a Camelot theme to her knights of second chances and of course with this being Fables and the power of stories she is just asking for trouble. A good read as always and along with Rose you get more of Snow and the new North Wind. The action in the city has the 13th floor witches trying to rebuild Bigby's glass body. And the one issue that has Bibgy in the afterworld is good for a few sniffles.


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#71 The House of the Four Winds by Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory

A new series that with the series title being One Dozen Daughters" proves to be a long series but if the rest of the books are as fun as the first one then it should be a nice stack of reading fun.  Clarice is the eldest princess of this very tiny kingdom that has had a not so normal upbringing. Knowing she will never inherit And with lots of sisters to all marry off they are each encouraged to learn skills that are not in the normal royal heiress dept. Wanting to a sword mistress, Clarice takes to traveling disguised as a young man to see the world and build a reputation. Booking passage on a ship to sail to newly discovered lands. Things don't go as planned as there is a mutiny on the ship and sailing into a magic hidden pirate island.  This book had a bit of a feeling of her Five Hundred Kingdom books in the love dept but there are no fairy godmothers to help rescue our heroine. I'll be looking for the next book in the series.


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