In modern Japan Anzu is a somewhat anti-social (neurodivergent maybe?) teen who is completely content with her life of a happy little family, plenty of video games to play, and plenty of chocolate to eat. Until a “love cupid”/wizard named Riri appears in her life. Riri lives in an alternate universe that is built on […]
Category: fantasy
Book Review: What Did You Do? by Jeneane O’ Riley
September 26, 2024It is impossible to discuss this book without spoilers for it and the first book, How Does It Feel? So I’m putting my review below a cut. Tweet
Book (Tok) Review: How Does it Feel? By Jeneane O’ Riley
September 23, 2024It’s undeniable that Romantasy has taken over social media. Part YA (as many of the books feature early adult characters and cater to YA/NA readers) and part Urban Fantasy, the field brushes again more established genres, gleefully twisting their trope for their own. Meta writing (reading?) is part of the game these days to readers. […]
***Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.*** Pretty Deadly Volume 3: The Rat by Kelly Sue DeConnick, art by Emma Rios Image Comics, 2020 ISBN-13: 9781534315198 Available: Kindle, paperback Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com DeConnick and Rios’ Pretty Deadly Volume 3 : The Rat launches us forward in time from World War I to 1930s Hollywood. The […]
Webtoons Review: Dark Castle
August 8, 2024By Faun_me Available Free on Webtoon Dark Castle is a hidden gem available only online. In gorgeous images the author tells of a beautiful woman who finds herself in some kind of dark, possibly underworld realm inhabited by strange, dangerous creatures, with no memory of who she is and how she came to be there. […]
ISBN: 9781948463553 Somewhere between YA and full paranormal romance House of Beating Wings by Olivia Wildstein begins with Fallon, a half-fae young woman living in a world where everyone has strict expectations of her, but they mostly–infuriatingly–just expect her to “Be good and not cause trouble”. Everyone, it seems, knows secrets about her. All Fallon […]
BOOK REVIEW: NETTLE & BONE BY T. KINGFISHER
March 25, 2024**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher Tor, 2023 ISBN-13 978-125024404 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook. Buy: Bookshop.org | Amazon.com There is a thin line between fantasy and horror, and between YA and adult fiction. Nettle and Bone dances on that line in this dark fairytale by T. Kingfisher, closer in tone to The […]
**Cross posted from The Circulation Desk** You Can’t Kill Snow White by Beatrice Alemagna, translated from French by Karin Snelson and Emilie Robert Wong Unruly, 2022 ISBN: 978-159270381 Available: Hardcover Buy: Bookshop.org You Can’t Kill Snow White puts a spin on the traditional story of Snow White by telling it from the Queen’s point of view. Alemagna reminds […]
Book Review: House of Beating Wings by Olivia Wildenstein
January 19, 2024In a world of faerie high court tales be an Olivia Wildenstein. It’s no secret fairy smut is pretty popular right now. BookTok and Sara J. Maas have kicked off a reader passion for more adult oriented fairy tales, though the smut levels of the popular series vary. There’s very little in the first book […]
Books You Missed: The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown
January 15, 2024You probably missed this one, seeing as it came out in 1986, the author never really exploded in popularity and viral wasn’t really a thing. However I consider this series one of my absolute favorites, and a must read for fantasy loving teens. Mary Brown wrote not one but four books about a girl who […]