Anna is a 16-year-old who is the product of an adulterous affair between her magician father and married-to-someone-else mother. She lives in what sounds like a traditional fairytale kingdom, where she has been locked away in a tower all her… Read More ›
Supernatural/Occult
What the Woods Keep
Upon turning eighteen, Hayden Holland, currently living in New York with a roommate named Del, is contacted by the family lawyer about the Promise, Colorado estate she is inheriting from her mother, who mysteriously vanished in its woods some ten… Read More ›
Someday
This book is a sequel to EVERY DAY by the same author. I have not read that but recommend others read it first before picking up SOMEDAY. In this book there are two characters who do not have bodies but… Read More ›
Venators: Magic Unleashed
I’m going to preface this review with a complaint I have about YA fantasy fiction in general and about its authors specifically. Why do you have to announce a book as the “first of a series” before you even know… Read More ›
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
“To Be Weak Is Miserable” is the chapter heading that begins and totally summarizes this remarkable, fantastically-imagined literary-revisionist version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN. Supposedly born to nobility but cast adrift when her mother dies and her father is imprisoned,… Read More ›
Ship It
I can’t think of a school library in Texas that can get away with putting a book with gay porn scenes in its collection but if that’s your school then by all means keep reading this review. SHIP IT tells… Read More ›
Fawkes
In England in the year 1604 teenager Thomas Fawkes is preparing to take the test that will determine his source of color power while also anxiously waiting to receive his hand-crafted mask from his father, Guy–both events that will mark… Read More ›
My Plain Jane
The publisher’s comment on the back flyleaf of this book says the three authors ((Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows) have as their goal to “fix history by rewriting one sad story at a time.” The book’s dedication partly reads… Read More ›
Spell and Spindle
The two main characters in this book are a brother and sister ages 11 and 13. They live in a big city near an unusual place called The Museum of Peculiar Arts, which has a long, murky history. The boy,… Read More ›
Potion Masters: The Eternity Elixir
Gordy is a 12-year-old boy who has inherited unusual, powerful skill in creating and mixing magic potions. He lives with his mother (who has similar skills but works what seems to be a normal job as cover), his dad, and… Read More ›
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