Tag: bard

Eat This While You Read That: Michael Hooten

Aug 12, 2015

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Cedar Sanderson

in Books, Cooking, Food

Both the First Reader and I have enjoyed Michael Hooten‘s Cricket series very much, finding them to be high fantasy without over-reliance on tropes and thus refreshing to read. His characters are lively, so it came as no surprise to find a note appended to the recipe he sent me. The book we recommend for…
Review: Cricket Learns to Sing

Apr 11, 2014

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by

Cedar Sanderson

in fantasy, fiction, Review

I was asked if I would like to review this charming little story while it was on a free give-away, and I’m not sorry that I read it. Classic fantasy, the story follows a boy as he is growing into maturity. While it employs various cliches of the orphan with a mysterious past, and the…