Robin McKinley is a favorite of mine, my go-to author for high fantasy. She has a lovely, dreamy, fairy tale style without a glut of Names with Apostrophes, characters who die off regularly or book stop size tomes. Chalice is everything you’d want in a standard fairy tale. There’s a pretty girl with a magical […]
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Review: Sunshine by Robin McKinley
November 13, 2014Sunshine’s life is changed forever when, while out for a walk by the lake, she is kidnapped by vampires and left, chained to a wall, to be prey to an enemy they’ve captured and have been torturing. It’s a game, starve the vampire then leave him alone with a pretty young, innocent girl until he […]
Review: Deerskin by Robin McKinley
November 11, 2014Deerskin is a fairytale princess, the daughter of the most beautiful woman in seven kingdoms who married a great king and whose love was so legendary it eclipsed everything, including her own existence. Admired and loved the king and queen were, but their story was so powerful no one else, including themselves, had much time […]