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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Looks like I'm going to be listening to a lot of audiobooks the next two weeks. I have to take my niece and nephew to school these next two weeks. An hour to pick them up and take them to school, then a bit over an hour to get to work. I should be able to make it through a couple of books! Right now, I'm listening to Childe Morgan by Katherine Kurtz. It's the second in the Childe Morgan trilogy, the last of which came out around 4 months ago. The first, In the King's Service, was pretty good.
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Finally finished my two week trek. I also finished Childe Morgan, Magic Rises by Illona Andrews and Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud.
Childe Morgan was pretty good. Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series was one of my first discoveries when I first started reading/buying SF&F in high school. The Childe Morgan trilogy is a prequel to the original trilogy written in the mid to late 70's. Maybe with a bit of luck, the Camber trilogy will make it to audio and ebooks. I've just started The King's Deryni which is the last of the Childe Morgan trilogy.
While I liked Magic Rises, it is a bit easier to skip through the romance sections in the book as an ebook rather than as an audio book. Over the space of this series, the romance aspects have been more and more frequent (that's romance as in romance novels, not romance as in romantic). I found myself getting a bit impatient with the book at times.
Lockwood & Co is the latest by Jonathan Stroud, of the Bartimaous (sp?) fame. The basic plot line is that England has be come more haunted and only kids can see the ghost or visitors as they are called. Unfortunately, it's fatal to be touched by a ghost. This is an excellent series, well worth reading. The narrator does a very good job.