Mary Robinette Kowal’s debut novel, the Jane Austen fantasy pastiche Shades of Milk & Honey, was published to critical acclaim (not to mention award nominations) in 2010, and since then, she has followed husband-and-wife “glamourists” Jane and Vincent through three subsequent, ever-more-daring adventures. Next month, Tor Books will publish the fifth and final volume of the series, […]
Mary Robinette Kowal’s Glamourist Histories series, five books of Regency-era alt-history in which magic is a means of artistic expression, comes to a conclusion with the suspenseful Of Noble Family. This isn’t your grandmother’s Jane Austen-era romance. Well, okay, it is. But it’s also a lot more.
My own romance reading is rather varied, but I have a weakness: magic. Psychic abilities, being able to shoot fire from one’s hands, or even just mystical elements is enough for me to give a book a double take. Magic adds an extra, fantastical element to a romance as characters need to contend with their […]
Editor’s note: Joel is reading his way through the finalists for the 2012 Nebula Award for best sci-fi/fantasy novel. Read his introduction here. Look, I love Jane Austen books as much as the next guy (provided the next guy’s love of Jane Austen books is limited to reading her shortest book and watching at least […]