As promised, mini reviews of the rest of the Paper Magician trilogy! I didn't think I wanted to rehash everything I'd liked about The Paper Magician in a full-on review, especially since Ceony's story seemed like a continuous adventure seamlessly entwined through each book. The Glass Magician continues the story almost a year after The [...]
Initial Thoughts Reading this was like delving into what Howl's Moving Castle would be like if it had the magic system of Read or Die. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the system of Folding, and seeing how Ceony dealt with her skills in the subject. The plot and characters, though, I'm still iffy about. I [...]
Here's a bit of a Schwabfest. It's been two years since I've actually read the first volume of The Steel Prince series (you can tell by the fact that I've since changed my mini-reviews format!), but it left such a lasting impression that I certainly had no trouble picking up where they left off! The graphics [...]
Alright, again, a lot of my LaL pictures don't take place in London. But bear with me, because I do like the alliteration in the blog title! All the same, I hadn't planned a vacation around books for the most part, but I can't help being transported to locations in fiction when I visited England. [...]
Technically, most of the Harry Potter stories don't really figure into London, and even the Warner Bros. Studio (which houses many of the original scenes and prop decorations) lot isn't located in London. But I suppose it wouldn't be a "Literature and London" series if I called it something different every time, heh. And I [...]
Story and Somnomancy 