I still enjoy this series of fairy tale retellings: they are clean, they are creative, the plots are unexpected, and the characters are identifiable and likable for the most part. I think this was probably my least favorite thus far, though: it seemed to drag a bit, and it lacked that ...
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Absolutely stunning! While I'm usually an audiobook or ebook kind of a girl, this is one book that needs to be experienced in hardcover, as the emphasis is really on the artwork. It's a collection of illustrated retellings of some of the major stories in the Bible, Old and New Testament, told in ...
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Jeff Wheeler does it again! Like the Kingfountain series, this one also introduces child protagonists, going back and forth between Cettie, a little orphan girl who grew up in the "fells" (or the bottom rung of society,) and Sera, daughter of the emperor and destined to be the empress herself--at ...
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I was surprised by how engaging this was. The story went back and forth in time, following first Marisol, the granddaughter of a wealthy Cuban refugee who fled from Cuba right after Batista was ousted and Castro took over, and her grandmother Elisa in real time as that was happening. It wasn't a ...
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I listened to the full cast version on audio, and I could hardly put it down. The characterization was just incredible... and while it bothered me that Ender was 6 when the story began and only 11 when it ended, it didn't bother me as much as it did the first time I read it. He's described as being ...
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I last read this in high school, but then got it as a freebie on Audible. I was at first rather confused, as it seemed like a cautionary fable against socialism, and yet both the good and the bad characters appeared to be socialist. When I read commentary afterwards, this made sense: Orwell ...
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