I’m a sucker for fairy tale reimaginings, from dark to modern, Fables to Tanith Lee. Touch of Gold touches on one I haven’t seen a lot from–the tale of King Midas. Kora is King Midas’ daughter. Curses run in their family line, from the superstition (possible curse) that made her father king to the famous […]
Category: fantasy
Archival Quality by Ivy Noelle Weir, art by Christina “Steenz” Stewart Oni Press, 2018 ISBN-13: 9781620104705 Available: Paperback After losing her job at the library due to her failing mental health, Celeste “Cel” Walden lands an archivist job at the Logan Museum, previously a sanitarium. The position, she finds out quickly, is a bit odd. […]
Book Review: The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
February 1, 2018Series title:The Secret Series Publishing Date: October 2007 ISBN:9780316113694 Available in:Kindle,HardCover, PaperBack,Audible,and Audio CD on Amazon. Cass is an eleven-year old survivalist who may or may not really be named Cass. Max-Ernest is a young compulsive speaker and factoid stocker who may or may not really be named Max-Ernest. The magician? There’s much we know […]
Musings: The Black Witch by Laurie Forest
January 27, 2018The Black Witch by Laurie Forest HarperTeen, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0373212316 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Not too long ago, there was controversy over racism in The Black Witch. based on this review. I was sent a copy for review, and the press release seemed to indicate the book was supposed to be the exact opposite of racist, so […]
Book Review: My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She’s Sorry
December 19, 2017My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman Atria Books, 2016 ISBN-13: 9781501160486 Available: Hardcover/Kindle edition/Audio Download/Compact Disc Elsa is seven, “going on eight”. Her world looks bleak: she is too mature for her age. and is bullied and friendless at school. Elsa’s parents are divorced. She lives with her mother, […]
Book Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
December 14, 2017Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2) by Seanan McGuire Tor, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0765392039 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Down Among the Sticks and Bones is a companion novella to Seanan McGuire’s award-winning novella Every Heart a Doorway. Every Heart a Doorway explored the question of what happens after children who walk through a door to a fantasy world […]
Book Review: Return to the Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz
October 12, 2017Return to the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel by Melissa de la Cruz Disney Hyperion Publishing, May 2016 Last year, Melissa de la Cruz introduced us to an interesting, darker twist on the typical Disney tale in Isle of the Lost. In the Disney fairytale realm of Auradon, all the villains, along with their children, have been captured […]
Summer at East End: Double Eclipse by Melissa de la Cruz G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 2016 ISBN-13: 978-0399173561 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Double Eclipse is the second book in Summer at East End, a YA spinoff series of Melissa de la Cruz’s adult urban fantasy series Witches of East End, which was about three sisters who […]
The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan Disney-Hyperion, 2016 ISBN-13: 978-1484732748 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, Audible The Hidden Oracle is the first book in a new series in the world of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Trials of Apollo. This book takes place six months after the war with Gaea and the giants’ […]
Review: Devoured by Amanda Marrone
June 14, 2016Megan just wants to make sure that her new boyfriend, Ryan, stays out of the clutches of his smitten best friend, Samantha. That’s why she’s working for the summer at the Land of Enchantment, an amusement park filled with fairy tale princesses. But when the ghost of her twin sister, Remy, begins to show up […]