Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: June 13, 2017 This is book two in the Wayward Children series. Click here for my review of Every Heart a Doorway. The same Jack and Jill from the nursery rhyme, only older, darker, both female, and living in a world that threatens to destroy them. Jacqueline […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Dark Fantasy, Romance Publisher: Wednesday Books Publication Date: February 6, 2018 This is book two in the Wintersong series. Click here for my review of Wintersong. So much more than the romance in the first book, Shadowsong weaves together lore, history, mystery, and powerful themes in a book that’s as dark as […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Romance, Fantasy Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Historically and culturally relevant, Wintersong weaves a beautiful tale, rich with lore and darkness, about what it means to live, to love, and, eventually, to die. Elisabeth, a.k.a. Liesl, has grown up on stories of the Goblin King, to the point […]
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: April 5, 2016 This first installment of the Wayward Children (because yes, there’s more) basically consists of the fairy tales you know and love turned on their head, modernized, and made awesome. When Nancy originally went missing, her parents were frantic. What they didn’t expect was to […]
Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Sci Fi & Fantasy, Teens & YA Publisher: Ink Smith Publishing Publication Date: January 8, 2018 “It seems to me that great sacrifices bring about great gifts. Unusual gifts. Miraculous gifts.” ~ Grey Lore Pace and Kennedy deliver a fast-paced, gripping story in Grey Lore that blends reality and folklore so masterfully […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (3.5) Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy Publisher: Black Rose Writing Publication Date: February 1, 2018 Jackson delivers a time-travel series that will engage new YA readers and provide plenty of nostalgia for older readers who grew up with books like the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale. In one week, Chase Walker turns 18, […]