What a delightful surprise this was! Definitely more than just a Cinderella retelling, though the bare bones of the fairy tale are there. Traitor's Masque has a lot more intrigue and suspense than Cinderella ever did. You never would think it from the cover, though--it made me think I likely would ...
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I didn't know the story of Hamlet at all, other than the fact that there's a famous speech in which he holds a skull. This is a retelling, not done in Shakespearean language, which makes it much easier to follow for me. I'm just not into working that hard to understand what's going on. I'm also not ...
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My husband and I read this aloud to one another, and man, it was a mouthful. Manchester writes beautiful prose, but in a very self-aware sort of a way. He often chooses incredibly convoluted turns of phrase to express simple ideas, compounded by casual references to obscure historical characters ...
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This was great! Really original. The story is told in a series of interviews between a police officer and an ostensibly 12-year old girl named Eve, though we find out pretty quickly that Eve is actually a very advanced AI. Eve explains her history in the course of the interview, but they're told to ...
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I'm a sucker for fairy tale retellings as a general rule. I know they're a fad at the moment, and I already know what's going to happen, but I don't care. I love them anyway. I did try the first book in this series (a retelling of the dancing princesses), but rolled my eyes at the concept of a ...
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I'm pretty sure I tried once before to read the e-book version of this and stopped because I lost interest. This time I listened to the audio version, and it kept my interest the whole way through. The story follows 8-year old Owen, but it's not an early reader book--it reads more like YA, or ...
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