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. For as long as sixteen-year-old Adele can remember the village of Oakvale has been surrounding by the dark woods—a forest filled with … Continue reading Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Red Wolf by Rachel Vincent
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Book Review: Beauty by Sarah Pinborough
Summary: An enticing contemporary retelling of the classic story of Sleeping Beauty. While the the handsome prince, the evil fairy, the beautiful girl and of course the spindle all appear, Sarah Pinborough’s charming and provocative spin on the story will captivate fans of the fairy tale all over again. Goodreads … Continue reading Book Review: Beauty by Sarah Pinborough
Book Review: The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross
Summary: I am neither monster nor man—yet I am both. I am the Beast. The day I was cursed to this wretched existence was the day I was saved—although it did not feel so at the time. My redemption sprung from contemptible roots; I am not proud of what I did the day her father … Continue reading Book Review: The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross
Audiobook Review: Beautiful by Juliet Marillier #20booksofsummer
I'm going to do something a little different with this review and put my summary and thoughts together since, being an audible original, this is a different kind of a book in a way. From what I gather, Beautiful is either an off-shoot of a previous story or an expansion of a previous story … Continue reading Audiobook Review: Beautiful by Juliet Marillier #20booksofsummer
Book Review: A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Summary: Fall in love, break the curse. It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him. But that was before he learned that at … Continue reading Book Review: A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Book Review: In The Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
Summary: In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land... A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world. A dragon, among the last of her kind, cold and aloof but desperately trying to make a … Continue reading Book Review: In The Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
Book Review: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
Summary: Fantasy legend Jane Yolen presents a wide-ranging offering of fractured fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets, holding them to the light and presenting them entirely transformed; where a spinner of straw into gold becomes a money-changer and the big bad wolf retires to a nursing home. Rediscover the … Continue reading Book Review: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
Can’t Wait Wednesday: A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
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. Fall in love, break the curse. It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Cursed by a powerful … Continue reading Can’t Wait Wednesday: A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Can’t-Wait Wednesday: How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
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
Book Review: Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier
Heart's Blood by Juliet Marillier is a Celtic take on the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast. From Goodreads: Whistling Tor is a place of secrets, a mysterious, wooded hill housing the crumbling fortress of a chieftain whose name is spoken throughout the district in tones of revulsion and bitterness. A curse lies over … Continue reading Book Review: Heart’s Blood by Juliet Marillier
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