Book Review: Gregory Maguire’s Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
What did happen to Cinderella’s ugly stepsisters?
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s The Calling
Now Maya, a skinwalker, and her friends have been forced to flee from their homes during a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set. Then they’re kidnapped, and after a chilling helicopter crash, they find themselves in the Vancouver Island wilderness with nothing but their extraordinary abilities to help them get back home.
Book Review: Marissa Burt’s Storybound
In our world, twelve-year-old Una Fairchild has always felt invisible. But all that changes when she stumbles upon a mysterious book buried deep in the basement of her school library, opens the cover, and suddenly finds herself transported to the magical land of Story.
Book Review: Janny Wurts’ Curse of the Mistwraith
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Curse of the Mistwraithby Janny Wurts fantasy in Paperback edition that was published by HarperCollins on May 1, 2009 and has 830 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon First in the Wars of Light and Shadows fantasy series revolving around a twist in how we perceive the Light and the Dark. My Take This is a conflict. The story is amazing. Wurts did a great job in creating an alternate world with excellent characters — especially in creating the “bad guy” whose point of view is perfectly reasonable. Considering what’s been done to him! The difficulty — and the reason I downgraded it to a “4” is the sentence construction. Wurts builds the most incredible sentences using big words and being rather poetic in their use. I’ve had to read many of them over and over trying to figure out what he’s saying…and I still don’t get most of ’em. [I think Patricia McKillip creates a more understandable sentence with her jewel-like lyricism.] My best recommendation is to […]
Book Review: Kim Harrison’s A Perfect Blood
Witch-turned-day-walking demon Rachel Morgan is pulled in to investigate the who and why of ritually murdered corpses appearing all over Cincinnati.
Book Review: Kelley Armstrong’s The Awakening
I’m a living science experiment, genetically altered by the Edison Group, and now I’m running for my life. The four of us — myself, a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch — have to find someone who can help us before the they find us. Or die trying.
Book Review: Marjorie M. Liu’s Within the Flames
A pyrokinetic, Eddie cannot refuse an assignment to rescue Lyssa, an extraordinary woman in peril…even though he fears losing control of the flames at his fingertips.
Book Review: Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe’s Fury: Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa
Wellington sends Sharpe undercover to Cadiz to rescue the British Ambassador, a route through the besieging enemy army against a British army deserted by its allies.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s The Confession
A dying man confesses that he killed his cousin during the Great War. Then his body is found in the river, and Inspector Ian Rutledge’s only clue is a gold locket.
Book Review: Lynsay Sands’ The Bite Before Christmas
An anthology of two stories about vampires and Christmas from Lynsay Sands’ Argeneau series and Jeaniene Frost’s Night Huntress series.