The Isle of Destiny Series, Book 3 Spear Song / Tricia O'Malley / 216 pages

Book three in the Isle of Destiny Series, Gwenith Donovan owns a hobby store called This and That, carries on one sided conversations with her chubby cat, and maintains a huge comic book collection to fuel her geeky obsession.  For all that she lived a normal routine life, everything changes when she discovers her own superpower, she can use magic.  Lochlain Laird is a high sorcerer of the light Fae and has broken one of the highest rules of the light Fae.  He broke into the Goddess Danu’s cave and stole a vial of her sacred blood in order to heal his dying mother, he returned it before anyone could figure out who he used it on knowing the Fae would also punish his mother if they knew, but to break into the cave or even touch the sacred vial is a death sentence.  However Danu punishes him by making him the next Seeker’s Protector.  Feeling that the task is beneath him and knowing that after this duty is accomplished he will still possibly face a death sentence, Loch remains withdrawn and surly during Gwenith’s quest to find the Spear and break a centuries old curse before the dark Fae can stop them.  Narrated by Amy Landon 5h 14min

The Isle of Destiny Series, Book 2 Sword Song / Tricia O'Malley / 253 pages

Book two in the Isle of Destiny Series, Sasha Flanagan has lived her life obsessed with swords, so much so that she became a collector and dealer of antique blades and an expert swordswoman.  But then she finds out that she is a Seeker for the next magical item in an ancient quest.  She has to find a mythological sword before a centuries old curse is complete and before the dark Fae can find it. She is accompanied by a rag-tag team and her Protector Declan who has grown up with her shadowed and silently watched over her since her childhood.  Narrated by Amy Landon 5h 31min.

The Isle of Destiny Series, Book 1 Stone Song / Tricia O'Malley / 296 pages

Clare MacBride has her life exactly in the order she wants it, in a year, she'll have finished her geology dissertation. But she is no closer to figuring out the answer to one question that plagues her and the reason why she went into geology, why can she feel stones pulse with energy? She’s never told anyone about her abilities, after all it sounds crazy in their science and technology driven age.  But one night when coming home from work she is attacked by a strange man with silver eyes who turns out to be a Fae only to be saved by another man who calls himself her Protector. She finds out about a centuries-old curse, a mysterious faction of protectors, and a mythological godstone, and that she is a Seeker which all sounds like old world fairy-tale nonsense to her. But she realizes that this is all real, her life plans are shattered and she is forced to throw everything she knows about the world out the window and go on a quest to find this godstone otherwise the dark Fae will be released and Ireland will be doomed. Narrated by Amy Landon 7h 2min.

Brass Sun: The Wheel of Worlds / Ian Edginton & I.N.J. Culbard / 208 pages

 Honestly how does one review a graphic novel? You can exclaim over the story, character development but really isn't it all about the pictures, right??! I have read graphic novels over the years and have my favorite illustrators and storyboarders, but this one was recommended by a comic strip! Unshelved does a very cool installment on Fridays where they do a large panel illustration of a book and talk it up. Great for Readers' Advisory. I was intrigued and lo! the District owned the volume.
  We meet Wren who lives with her grandfather. She is given his journal and a key and told she must leave to save herself and their world. Wren is told the ice is encroaching and slowly killing her universe and she must somehow restart the sun. She leaves on her quest somehow knowing she will never see her grandfather again. We follow her on a wonderful and quixotic journey through the clockwork solar system. Do you remember the brass model of a solar system with all the planets connected by long thin arms? That is the world Wren has been brought up in. The arms are traveling tubes to each of the distant worlds. What a cool concept right??!!
  This is the first volume in the series and you want to read it quickly. Don't do that. Read it slowly and savor the adventure as it will come to an end all too soon. I thoroughly enjoyed this and recommend it to anyone who likes steampunk, adventure/quest stories, or strong heroine characters. You will be rewarded.

Six Degrees of Reading: Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by I.N.J. Culbard.