Can’t-Wait Wednesday, aka Waiting on Wednesday, is a weekly meme originating from Jill at Breaking the Spine and now hosted by Wishful Endings. If you’re interested in participating, stop by Wishful Endings to link up your posts. Fantasy legend Jane Yolen (The Emerald Circus, The Devil’s Arithmetic) delights with this effortlessly wide-ranging offering of fractured fairy tales. Yolen fractures … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
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Book Review: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
Summary: In the sequel to the critically acclaimed The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Mary Jekyll and the rest of the daughters of literature’s mad scientists embark on a madcap adventure across Europe to rescue another monstrous girl and stop the Alchemical Society’s nefarious plans once and for all. Mary Jekyll’s life has been peaceful … Continue reading Book Review: European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Roar of Sky by Beth Cato
I don't always have much going on during Wednesday's around here so I thought I'd participate in one of the Wednesday meme's now and then. I don't know if I'll stick with this every week, but it may be something I participate in once in a while, we'll see how things go. 🙂 Can't-Wait Wednesday, … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Roar of Sky by Beth Cato
Book Review: Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven
Summary: Every year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire's capital--her fate to be burned alive for the entertainment of the masses. For the last five years, one small village's tithe has been the same woman. Gilene's sacrifice protects all the other young women of her village, and her secret … Continue reading Book Review: Phoenix Unbound by Grace Draven
Book Review: The Demons Within by Ashe Armstrong
Summary: Grimluk is an orc with one purpose: hunting demons. An isolated farming town has a demon problem, and Grimluk is on hand to fix it. But this time, things aren’t that simple. While Grimluk hunts the demon, a rock crashes from the sky; a rock containing something alien to the world of Arkod. Something … Continue reading Book Review: The Demons Within by Ashe Armstrong
Book Review: Year One by Nora Roberts
Summary: It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now … Continue reading Book Review: Year One by Nora Roberts
Book Review: Spinning Silk by T. Cook
Summary: A weaver’s genius ignites the jealousy of her peers, the possessiveness of her mill’s proprietress and the hopes of an unborn nation. Furi knows she was born to create, but the fabric of her life otherwise weaves mysteries. These things are more than they appear: Shin, the gardener, with his unlikely power over life … Continue reading Book Review: Spinning Silk by T. Cook
Friday Favorite Five: Science Fantasy Novels
For previous posts and future FFF topics check out my Friday Favorite Five page here. Favorite Five Science Fantasy Novels What is Science Fantasy? It's a subgenre of SFF that blends elements from both Science Fiction and Fantasy within one work. I often like to refer to Star Wars as Science Fantasy because it … Continue reading Friday Favorite Five: Science Fantasy Novels
Book Review: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Summary: When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts' mysterious and sometimes frightening … Continue reading Book Review: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Book Review: Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell
Summary: Falcio is the first Cantor of the Greatcoats. Trained in the fighting arts and the laws of Tristia, the Greatcoats are travelling Magisters upholding King’s Law. They are heroes. Or at least they were, until they stood aside while the Dukes took the kingdom, and impaled their King’s head on a spike. Now Tristia … Continue reading Book Review: Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell
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