by Kristin Cashore
Fire lives in a land where monsters roam. They are as deadly as they are beautiful, luring their prey with their looks then happily devouring them. Fire, herself, is a monster, more beautiful than any could imagine with hair the color of flames. She is the last of her kind, the only remaining [...]
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Review: Fire
Review: Once a Witch
by Carolyn MacCullough
When Tamsin was born, her grandmother predicted that she would be one of the most powerful Talents in her family’s history, but Tamsin’s Talent never appeared. Now Tamsin is the only “normal” person in her family, living under the shadow of her supremely Talented and beautiful older sister, Rowena. When a man comes [...]
Graphic Novel Round Up, Part 1
Recently I’ve read several graphic novels. I’m not great at writing full-length, in depth reviews for them as I do for novels, so I thought I would do a compilation post, despite there being no real theme between them. Here it goes:
Rapunzel’s Revenge
by Shannon and Dean Hale
Illustrated by Nathan Hale (no relation)
A girl-power retelling of [...]
Souls Squared: A Review of Two Books
Last week I was looking for good recommendations for girly fantasy titles not involving vampires or fairies. No one had any but that’s ok because not long after posting that I received My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent and Meridian by Amber Kizer in on hold at the library. You can guess what I’ve [...]
Plague
by Joanne Dahme
Nell looks exactly like Princess Joan and after Nell’s parents succumb to the plague, Nell and her brother George go to live in the castle where Nell works as Princess Joan’s body double in times of trouble. Now several years after her parents’ death, Nell, George, and Princess Joan are off to Spain [...]
Bones of Faerie
by Janni Lee Simner
Liza lives in a world much different from our own. Liza’s world was changed when humans and faerie fought a horrible war, devastating both sides. Liza has been brought up to believe that anything and everything to do with the faeries is bad, especially magic. When her baby sister is born with [...]
The Glass Maker's Daughter
by V. Briceland
Risa is the daughter of one of the seven most prominent families in Cassaforte, and because of her status, her future is to be decided by the gods during the Ritual of Scrutiny. As the day for the ritual approaches, Risa is excited, wondering which of the two gods will pick her to [...]
Jolted: Newton Starker's Rules for Survival
by Arthur Slade
Newton Starker is the last in the Starker line. All of his Starker relatives, except for his cranky great-grandmother, have died from lightning strikes, his mother being the most recent victim. No one knows why lightning so regularly strikes down the Starkers. Scientific tests have come up with nothing and Newton refused to [...]
Crown and Court Duet
Crown Duel and Court Duel
by Sherwood Smith
Countess Meliara and her brother Branaric promise their father on his death bed that they will continue to fight, even war, against the king of their lands who is overtaxing the country into poverty and who is also about to break the sacred covenant with the magic Hill Folk [...]
Hannah's Winter
by Kierin Meehan
Hannah finds herself not beginning the school year with her friends in Australia as expected but in Japan staying with her mother’s friends while her mother researches her next book. Hannah’s mother is a larger than life agriculturist with purple hair who talks in ALL CAPS when emphasizing a point. She refuses to [...]
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