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Posted 2016-02-28 3:08 PM (#12860 - in reply to #12253)
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I finished 'Tales From Rugosa Coven' by Sarah Avery today. The book is a series of interlinked novellas based on a coven of modern day witches based in New Jersey. After a shaky start where I thought I wouldn't enjoy the book I really got into the end of the first novella before really enjoying the second and third novellas. I really liked the characterisation as the witches all seemed very real people, with very real problems (and a fair few magical ones). I really have to like characters to enjoy a novel and if I'm being honest quite a few of the characters weren't particularly likeable, but this is where I think Avery has done a good job, they are really well developed and authentic, so despite not 'liking' or identifying with a few characters I could really enjoy them. Avery has really done her research and has presented a world where paganism is a little more accepted and magic is real whilst firmly being rooted in today. I've been very sceptical in older years and this book has made me interested in all the estoric things I read about in my teens. Very pleasantly surprised by this.

12 in 12 Challenge 2016

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Hugo winner) 2.5 / 5
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Nebula / Shirley Jackson winner) 4.5 / 5
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (BSFA / Locus SF winner) 3 / 5
Tales From Rugosa Coven by Sarah Avery (Mythopoeic winner) 4 / 5

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