This was an incredible retelling! I've never been great at deciphering Elizabethan English, nor am I especially disposed to try. Hewson did not modernize the setting (it's set in 1499 Verona, though this is more specific than Shakespeare was), but he did update the language so that it reads like a ...
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Rhys Bowen seems to have two similar yet different genres, and I've come to enjoy both: the witty tongue-in-cheek cozy murder mystery series, and those like "The Venice Sketchbook": much more serious dramas which are nevertheless still slice-of-life, rich with detail and usually emphasizing a ...
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Card's stories always involve subtle and very creative magic: he tends to choose abilities I've never seen done before, and then proceeds to explain them pseudo-scientifically, or at least logically within the framework of the world he creates. I love that about his worlds. This story was quite ...
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I apparently love retellings -- even when I have only the vaguest idea of the original plot. This retelling was of "1001 Nights," and I knew roughly that the story was of a bride destined to die in the morning, but she told such great tales each night and left them unfinished so that her husband ...
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I never would have picked this book up (the title would have scared me away!) except that it was a freebie on Audible. But it was surprisingly cute, and tongue-in-cheek. The story: in a world where supernatural creatures intermingle with humans, the ageless tree nymph Ingrid keeps to herself after ...
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