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A Heart in Sun and Shadow – Annie Bellet
OK, the laptop isn’t 100% – don’t ask – but most of the keys are back on (don’t ask) and I can work around the rest. So here I am, back with a ridiculously long review…Spoiler-free till I give a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Heart in Sun and Shadow, Annie Bellet, Áine, Brychan, fairy tale, LibraryThing, Wales
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Fairest – Gail Carson Levine
My Kindle freezes = I read an actual book. I have a small mountain of Read-Soon books by my bed, so when communication failed with my device I pulled this off the stack. Aza, the first-person character, is different from … Continue reading
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Tagged Fairest, fairy tale, Gail Carson Levine, Snow White, YA
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Firelight – Kristen Callihan
Well, that was unexpected. It seems lately that more often than not preconceived notions are upended by half the books I read. I started Firelight almost more to eliminate it from my needs-to-be-read list than with any actual expectation of … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty and the Beast, fairy tale, Firelight, Kristen Callihan, NetGalley, Persephone
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The Godmother – Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
This felt a little like Charles de Lint in its exploration of extreme misery and child abuse overlaid with magical assistance. One thing I will say for de Lint, though, is that at least he never rubbed my face in … Continue reading
Daphne and the Silver Ash – Joss Llewelyn
This was a novella received through LibraryThing’s Member Giveaways – thank you. It is a short, sweet, melancholy yet ultimately hopeful story, aching with a feeling of might-have-been and will-never-be-again as one thoughtful and gallant young woman tries to deal … Continue reading
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Tagged Daphne, Daphne and the Silver Ash, fairy tale, fantasy, Joss Llewelyn, Librarything Early Review, Novella, YA
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Susan Dexter: The best for last – The True Knight
It was with some sadness that I picked up The True Knight. This was the third book of the second trilogy Susan Dexter wrote about Calandra and its surrounds, and the last of her books in my reread (having read … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tale, fantasy, fiction, Susan Dexter, swan prince, True Knight
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The Return of the Dapper Men: Jim McCann
Return of the Dapper Men – written by Jim McCann, illustrated by Janet Lee – accessed through Netgalley. This is a hard book to review. First, while it’s obvious that the artwork is beautiful, it was hard to appreciate it … Continue reading
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Tagged fairy tale, Janet Lee, Jim McCann, Return of the Dapper Men, Tim Gunn
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