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Book Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

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 […]

Book Review: Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

Book Review: Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

Posted February 5, 2018 in book review, fantasy, four stars, teens, young adult / 3 Comments

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 […]

Book Review: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

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 […]

Book Review: The Deal of  a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman

Book Review: The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman

Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Literature & Fiction Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: October 31, 2017 Fredrik Backman delivers a heartbreaking work of fiction just in time for the holidays. Never mind that I read it way after the holidays. It’s not so much a holiday story, though, even though it takes place on Christmas Eve, but rather, […]