Tag: fairy tale
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Book Review: The Winter Charlatan
by Victoria McCombs publisher’s synopsis A Queen raised in the shadows, and a Fraud Prince who needs her help. The sole heir to the kingdom is destined to sleep for a hundred years. To hide this liability, the queen left her cursed daughter in the care of a trusted lord, while taking his son as…
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Book Review: Into the Heartless Wood
by Joanna Ruth Meyer publisher’s synopsis The forest is a dangerous place, where siren song lures men and women to their deaths. For centuries, a witch has harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow her domain. When Owen Merrick is lured into the witch’s wood, one of her tree-siren daughters,…
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Book Review: When You Found Me
by Anna Augustine When You Found Me is a novella collection featuring three stories centered around the three princes of Allura and the women they fall in love with. The first story centers on Nicholas and Della, the second on Collins and Sage, and the last is finally centers on Benjamin and Aurora. While all…
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Book Review: The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice
by Lisa DeSelm Pirouette spends her days busy helping her father, Gephardt the puppetmaster. Aside from performing marionette shows, Piro helps her father crafts the dozens and dozens of life-sized wooden soldiers the Margrave, the ruler of Tavia, has ordered. And in everything she does, Piro guards her secret: that she was once a marionette,…
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Book Review: Dust
by Kara Swanson Claire Kenton hates Peter Pan. Ever since her twin brother Connor disappeared, leaving nothing more than a note saying he was with Peter Pan, Claire has despised the boy who never grew up. But Claire can’t let herself get caught up in her loathing of Pan. She’s busy trying to track down…
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Book Review: Spindle
by Shonna Slayton Briar Rose works in a New England mill, trying to support her siblings and figure out her life. Her plans for caring for her siblings have been dashed, and she only has so much time until she turns seventeen and Nanny will stop looking after them. Briar’s life is then turned further…
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Book Review: Fairest
By Gail Carson Levine publisher’s synopsis The fairy Lucinda has once again given a dreadful gift. This time, it’s a mysterious magical mirror. The gift is disastrous when it falls into the hands of Aza, who never looks into a mirror if she can help it. In the Kingdom of Ayortha, Aza is most definitely…
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Book Review: The Lost Girl
by Anne Ursu publisher’s synopsis When you’re an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else: For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark is inventive, dreamy, and brilliant–and from their first moments in the world together, they’ve never left each other’s…
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