*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Saga Press, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1534439863 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, audio CD Yetu is the historian for the wajniru, underwater beings created when slave traders threw pregnant African women overboard into the Atlantic Ocean. Although the women drowned, their children, born in the deep of the ocean, […]
Category: fantasy
Book Review: Ash Rising by Katya Lebeque
November 7, 2019Post apocalyptic fairy tale. Do I have your attention yet? Ash Rising is set in the world of Cinderella, after her happily ever after. After a horrific genetic mutation that was supposed to help feed the world and instead leeches the ground of its fertility and mutates the birds of the kingdom into giant predators […]
Book Review: The Antidote by Shelley Sackier
October 28, 2019After a deadly disease swept through their little kingdom, Xavi and Fee end up being the only children left behind. After ten years of isolation due to quarantine, and ten years of taking the antidote, the kingdom is on the cusp of reopening, and welcoming back its long lost children, when Prince Xavi and healer’s […]
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014 ISBN: 978-1442465954 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Carroll’s Through the Woods includes five short sequential art stories, each one atmospheric and eerie. In “Our Neighbor’s House,” sisters Mary, Beth, and Hannah are left on their own after their father goes out to hunt, with instructions to […]
Book Review: The Fever King by Victoria Lee
September 19, 2019In a post-apocalyptic world where the United States has fallen apart due to a deadly virus that leaves survivors with magical abilities (is that not enough to get you to grab this book?) sixteen year old Noam finds himself the only survivor o an outbreak in a refugee neighborhood and suddenly swooped into a world […]
Book Review: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
August 29, 2019Scholastic, 2007 ISBN: 0439813786 Available: New Brian Selznick (The Boy With A Thousand Faces) has once again produced a homage to early horror movies. Fourteen year old Hugo Cabret winds the clocks of a busy Paris train station in secrecy, hoping that nobody will notice the absence of his uncle, the station’s timekeeper. Successfully hiding […]
Book Review: Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows
June 25, 2019Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows by J.M. Bergen Elandrian Press, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1732457805 ISBN-10: 1732457808 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition “Magic is real, Thomas”. Those were the last words Thomas Wildus’ father said to him. Thomas is a geeky, mischievous, bullied, preteen, whose father disappeared several years ago. He loves to read books about magic, […]
The Night Weaver (Shadow Grove, Vol. 1) by Monique Snyman Gigi Publishing, 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1643163031 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Seventeen-year-old Rachel Cleary lives in the isolated community of Shadow Grove (it’s unclear how isolated, or how large, it actually is, as it has suburbs, a trendy downtown, three grocery stores, multiple chain stores, and a […]
Book Review: Damsel by Elana K. Arnold
March 5, 2019Content Warning: This book is a dark, deep fairy tale about Prince Charming (and his kingdom) grooming his damsel-in-distress for abuse. After rescuing Ama from a dragon as is the traditional rite for a king in this land, Prince Emory and his entire kingdom begin slowly and methodically training her to be an abused non-person […]
Long story short, while in the review copy/arc phase debut YA author Amélie Wen Zhao first delayed, then cancelled the publication of her first novel (which was a major deal–that is one described as gaining an advance of at least $500,000) Blood Heir. Publishers Weekly covers the controversy here. And Tablet Magazine updates it here. Personally, […]