The first book in the Camelot Code series, The Once and Future Geek , mixed time travel between the medieval world of King Arthur and our own, and it is a very entertaining book. The second book in the series, Geeks and Holy Grail (Hyperion, October 2019), is also entertaining (though not quite as funny; King Arthur as a modern day high school student is hard to beat....). When Morgana, sworn enemy of King Arthur, attacks the druids of Avalon, Nimue, the youngest of them, takes the Holy Grail and runs with it. King Arthur is dying, and only the Grail can save him. Desperate to keep it from falling into Morgana's hands, she stumbles into Merlin's Crystal Cave. But instead of Merlin there to help her (he's on vacation in Los Vegas, in our time), there's only his very inexperienced apprentice, Emrys. His attempt to hide the grail works, in a sense--as a small, flatulent dragon, it sure doesn't look much like a grail. But it isn't much use to Arthur as a...
Here's what I found this week; please let me know of anything I missed!
The Reviews
Alien Superstar, by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, at Good Reads with Rona
Boy Band of the Apocalypse, by Tom Nicholl, at Always in the Middle
Cog, by Greg van Eekhout, at Sonderbooks
The Dark Lord Clementine, by Sarah Jean Horwitz, at Geo Librarian
A Dash of Trouble (Sprinkle of Spirits #1), by Anna Meriano, at Leaf's Reviews
The Girl who Stole and Elephant, by Nizrana Farook, at Lily and the Fae (I haven't read this myself yet, so not sure it counts as fantasy....)
The Girl with the Dragon Heart, by Stephanie Burgis, at Book Criac
Lampie and the Children of the Sea, by Annet Schaap, at Whispering Stories
The Mystwick School of Musicraft, by Jessica Khoury, at Sharon the Librarian
Race to the Sun, by Rebecca Roanhoures, at Ms. Yingling Reads, Book Page, and Bookshelf Fantasies
The Red Winter (The Tapestry #5), by Henry H. Neff, at Say What?
The Revenge of Magic, by James Riley, at Imaginary Friends
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood and Co. #1), by Jonathan Stroud, at Sloth Reads
The Seeking Serum (Potion Masters #3), by Frank L. Cole, at Cracking the Cover
Snow White and the Seven Robots, by Stewart Ross, at Sharon the Librarian
The Thief Knot, by Kate Milford, at Charlotte's Library, Geek Dad, and The Neverending TBR
Time Sight, by Lynne Jonell, at Semicolon
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, by Kwame Mbalia, at proseandkahn (audiobook review)
The Twelve, by Cindy Lin, at Charlotte's Library
Washed Up (Boy Band of the Appocalypse #2), by Tom Nicoll, at Always in the Middle
The Winterhouse Mysteries, by Ben Guterson, at Puss Reboots
A Wolf Called Wander, by Roseanne Parry, at Semicolon
Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow, by Jessica Townsend, at Leaf's Reviews
Authors and Interviews
Michelle Harrison (A Sprinkle of Sorcery) at Book Trust ("the books that made me")
Other Good Stuff
A list of mythological fantasies beyond Rick Riordan, at Jean Little Library
Scary middle grade books ranked, at Falling Letters
Tor is kicking off a close re-reading of Prince Caspian; here's the intro. post
The Reviews
Alien Superstar, by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, at Good Reads with Rona
Boy Band of the Apocalypse, by Tom Nicholl, at Always in the Middle
Cog, by Greg van Eekhout, at Sonderbooks
The Dark Lord Clementine, by Sarah Jean Horwitz, at Geo Librarian
A Dash of Trouble (Sprinkle of Spirits #1), by Anna Meriano, at Leaf's Reviews
The Girl who Stole and Elephant, by Nizrana Farook, at Lily and the Fae (I haven't read this myself yet, so not sure it counts as fantasy....)
The Girl with the Dragon Heart, by Stephanie Burgis, at Book Criac
Lampie and the Children of the Sea, by Annet Schaap, at Whispering Stories
The Mystwick School of Musicraft, by Jessica Khoury, at Sharon the Librarian
Race to the Sun, by Rebecca Roanhoures, at Ms. Yingling Reads, Book Page, and Bookshelf Fantasies
The Red Winter (The Tapestry #5), by Henry H. Neff, at Say What?
The Revenge of Magic, by James Riley, at Imaginary Friends
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood and Co. #1), by Jonathan Stroud, at Sloth Reads
The Seeking Serum (Potion Masters #3), by Frank L. Cole, at Cracking the Cover
Snow White and the Seven Robots, by Stewart Ross, at Sharon the Librarian
The Thief Knot, by Kate Milford, at Charlotte's Library, Geek Dad, and The Neverending TBR
Time Sight, by Lynne Jonell, at Semicolon
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, by Kwame Mbalia, at proseandkahn (audiobook review)
The Twelve, by Cindy Lin, at Charlotte's Library
Washed Up (Boy Band of the Appocalypse #2), by Tom Nicoll, at Always in the Middle
The Winterhouse Mysteries, by Ben Guterson, at Puss Reboots
A Wolf Called Wander, by Roseanne Parry, at Semicolon
Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow, by Jessica Townsend, at Leaf's Reviews
Authors and Interviews
Michelle Harrison (A Sprinkle of Sorcery) at Book Trust ("the books that made me")
Other Good Stuff
A list of mythological fantasies beyond Rick Riordan, at Jean Little Library
Scary middle grade books ranked, at Falling Letters
Tor is kicking off a close re-reading of Prince Caspian; here's the intro. post
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