I'm so happy JK Rowling wrote something else in the children's fantasy genre! This reads like an allegory, and for the first 2/3 of the book I was nearly sure it was a morality tale about current political events. The Ickabog is (supposedly) a fictional creature from bedtime stories. But then ...
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Wow. This book was truly incredible. It was so long that I feel like Grant is my friend now, and I miss him! An amazing portrait of a great man. Grant, as portrayed by Chernow, was such a humble, likable, good person. His biggest flaw was that he was too trusting, and this was the reason that his ...
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Sigh... I was afraid of this. If I kept reading, the happy ending from book 3 would be reversed, since it wasn't the end of the series, and Jeff Wheeler doesn't necessarily go for happily ever afters. This isn't the end of the series either, and yet, now I'm afraid to read on. I might actually read ...
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Ah! This one was so satisfying, I almost wish it was the last in the series (even though it didn't all get wrapped up yet). The stories of Sera and Cettie continue, though this story follows more quickly on the heels of the previous one--they are still young women, about the same age as in the ...
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Love this series! I'm so in awe of how intricate Wheeler's worlds are. Following the pattern in the "Kingfountain" series, the Harbinger series also follows the characters over epochs of years. In this one, the main characters Cettie and Sera, are young adults. They study at Muirwood, looping in ...
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A unique retelling of Beauty and the Beast! Each of Davidson's fairy tale retellings are so loose that if I didn't know going in what it was that she was intending to mimic, I might not have even guessed it. Alexei was a minor character in the retelling from the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and he ...
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