I LOVED this! It was almost like reading a Jane Austen novel, except the protagonist is the queen, and so all of the Victorian (no pun intended) rules are turned on their head. I definitely wonder how much of it is fact and how much fiction, because it reads exactly like a novel, though. The ...
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Marie Lu's stories are always fast-paced action with fantastic characters, so they suck me in--yet I often don't care for her endings. They tend to spoil all the enjoyment I've had up until that point. Skyhunter was a happy exception to this trend, though. Talin is a striker without a voice, wh0 ...
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I know what I'm getting with the Andari Chronicles at this point, but it's always delightful to see how Davidson will pull it off this time. They are all unusual, creative, and very loose retellings of fairy tales. This one is a retelling of Snow White, but... barely. The main character Brenna, ...
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I'm so glad I finished this series after all! As before, I can't really review this book without spoilers, so be forewarned... While I understand that Prism Cloud had to perpetuate the conflict if the series was not completely over, I REALLY didn't like the conflict it created, and it led me to ...
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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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