I absolutely adored the Sweet Evil trilogy, so I tried this one too--curious to know how Higgins would pull off a romance between a human girl and a leprechaun! But it gets better: the human girl and the leprechaun are betrothed from childhood, even though they've never met before. How in the world ...
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Review of Hidden Deep
I'm not generally a romance reader unless it's historical, because modern day stories that are primarily romances tend to be cheesy in my opinion. I have a hard time with all the ogling of rippling muscles and bodies aflame and what-not... just makes me roll my eyes. This story had an awful lot of ...
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Of Sea and Stone
I read this one mostly on the beach in Bermuda, which turned out to be just perfect! Since the story references (and later takes place in) the lost city of Itlantis (a different spelling of Atlantis, apparently) and one of the theories of the Bermuda Triangle involves the idea that the lost city ...
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Review of Ice Massacre
A fun concept, and one I don't think I've seen done before... normally mermaid stories follow the mermaid as the main character, but this one instead followed Meela, a 17-year old human girl raised to hate mermaids and regard them as "demons" to be killed. The prologue is great--definitely hooks you ...
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Review of Gregor the Overlander
I LOVED The Hunger Games trilogy (I mean, who didn’t?!), but it took me years to get around to listening to some of Suzanne Collins’s backlist. Someone in the Barnes and Noble YA section told me she actually liked this book better. I started reading the e-book version of it a long time ago, and ...
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Wonder Woman: Warbringer
Let me preface this with a very unpopular opinion, and just get it out of the way right now: I absolutely *hated* the most recent Wonder Woman film (my review of it is here, if you care). So I didn’t have super high expectations for this book. But I see it advertised on end caps every time I go to ...
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Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman has one of the most distinctive narrative voices I’ve ever read. He seamlessly blends the real world, and even current pop culture, with fantasy, and in such a droll way--as if, Well, of course you can move between worlds and dimensions. Of course there's a cave at the end/beginning of ...
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Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses
I had tried Sarah J Maas’s Throne of Glass series a few years ago and couldn’t get into it. But this series is everywhere, and everyone gushes about how great it is, so finally I decided to give it a try. Let me preface the rest of what I have to say with the fact that I stop reading books that ...
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Review of Outlander
I never would have thought to listen to this book, had Audible not suggested it to me, as I’m not a big romance novel fan. But I do love an adventure story with an interwoven love story, especially when there’s a fantasy twist, so I thought I’d give it a try.
The quick summary: Clare is happily ...
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Review: The Golden Key, George MacDonald
My rating of The Golden Key: 4 stars
This was of the old-school fantasy variety: i.e. heavy on plot and morality and light on characterization. I enjoyed the last one the most (Birth of the Christ Child, I think it was called) because there was more characterization in that one and so ...
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