Tag: book review
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Book Review: Seventh City
by Emily Hayse publisher’s synopsis “Let me tell you a story that happened so long ago that only the hills and rivers can remember the time . . . .” All her life, thirteen-year-old Maki has heard tales of the legendary city of gold, buried deep in the northern frontier. But when her village is…
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Book Review: Of Fire and Ash
by Gillian Bronte Adams publisher’s synopsis She rides a fireborn, a steed of fire and ash, trained for destruction. Ceridwen tal Desmond dreams of ruling like her father over the nation of Soldonia, where warriors ride to battle on magical steeds—soaring on storm winds, vanishing in shadow, quaking the earth, and summoning the sea. After…
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Book Review: The Means That Make Us Strangers
by Christine Kindberg publisher’s synopsis Home is where your people are. But who are your people? Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia, where she and her family are the only white people she knows. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964. Adelaide promises she’ll return to Ethiopia and become part…
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Book Review: Silverblood
by Jamie Foley publisher’s synopsis The Jade Witch sacrifices everything to save her people from one enemy—by forging an alliance with another. A desperate chieftess. Brooke’s treetop city is a charred husk of its former glory. Her people demand revenge against the Emberhawk tribe, blind to the larger threat: the ravenous Malaano Empire. Determined to…
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Book Review: Emberhawk
by Jamie Foley publisher’s synopsis The elementals have decided they’re gods, and humans are nothing but fuel for their fire. A starving trapper. Merciless drought withers Kira’s ranch, leaving her family hungry—and desperate enough to cross the border into the forbidden forest to trap wild game. But the forest is infested with tree-scorpions and giant…
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Book Review: A Little Taste of Poison
by R. J. Anderson publisher’s synopsis The city of Tarreton is powered by magic, from simple tablets that light lamps to advanced Sagery that can murder a man from afar. Isaveth has a talent for spell-making, but as a girl from a poor neighborhood she never dreamed she could study at the most exclusive magical…
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Book Review: Shadow
by Kara Swanson Peter Pan and Claire have made it to Neverland–but it’s not the island they were expecting. After arriving with Captain Hook, Claire finds herself a prisoner upon his pirate ship, forced to watch a shattered Neverland from afar and wonder where her brother is. When Claire manages to escape and find Connor,…
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Blog Tour: Ignite by Jenna Terese
I am so excited to get to be a part of the blog tour for Ignite today! Ignite is a YA superhero novel by Jenna Terese, and it just released on July 2nd! Congratulations Jenna! I got to read an ARC of Ignite and do an interview with Jenna as well, but before I get…
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Book Review: The Luck Child
by Rebekah Shafer No one remembers Cabernet. They only remember the myth, the legend, the name–but not the man. Everyone forgets him. Only fairy-kind remembers Cabernet, so what else is a wandering, forgotten orphan supposed to do besides get involved with fairy affairs, often acting as the mediator between fairies and humans? It sounds like…
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Blog Tour: These War-Torn Hands
I am so excited to get to be a part of the blog tour for These War-Torn Hands by Emily Hayse, the first book in the Knights of Tin and Lead series! These War-Torn Hands is a YA Western fantasy that’s also an Arthurian retelling! Curious now? Here’s the full blurb: “They say this land…
Hailey Huntington 