Ruinsong by Julia Ember Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020 ISBN-13 : 978-0374313357 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com) In this YA dark fantasy, Cadence is a corporeal mage whose magic comes through singing. While she comes from poverty, she is now the principal singer for the queen. Queen Elene, also originally a commoner, overthrew […]
Category: fantasy
BOOK REVIEW: BLOOD SCION BY DEBORAH FALAYE
September 6, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) HarperTeen, 2022 ISBN-13: :978-0062954046 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Blood Scion is horrific but I don’t know if I would call it horror– it is African fantasy. Sloane Shade is a Scion– a blood descendant of an Orisha, a child […]
ISBN 1952303311 Twin princess Kelindi and Aridani live a lavish life in The Tiger’s Claw, a mountain formed two hundred years ago when the queen used powers gifted to her by a unique bonding to her white tiger companion to create a place where her people could be safe. Traditionally the leader of the Tiger’s […]
ISBN 1952303192 Table top role playing has a special place in my life, like a lot of people. So, of course I wanted to dig into this tale of a group of friends who came together through a game and are trying to navigate their lives changing after school. A lot of people I know […]
ISBN 1952303214 Potions Inc is a reverse portal fantasy with a number of other rips on fantasy tropes. Randelgast Jones aches for adventure. His family owns a potions shop. His siblings are brilliant mages. But he dreams of something more…he’s just not sure what. His parents encourage him to start simply (with actually working toward […]
TV Review: Doctor Who Season One (2005)
March 19, 2022There’s no question that Doctor Who is a long time essential speculative fiction world. The 2005 reboot propelled the title into the lives of a new generation of people, building a wonderful world of a unique mesh of science fiction, fantasy, and, yes, horror. My first exposure to the Doctor came from horror, namely the […]
Book Review: The Book of Living Secrets by Madeline Roux
March 15, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk. ** Quill Tree Press, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-0062941428 Available: Preorder (available March 8) hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) So many readers wish they could enter the worlds of their favorite books. The Book of Living Secrets will make them think twice. Adelle and Connie have been best friends for […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-0062652638 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales, Soman Chainani brings us tales so sharp they cut, with teen protagonists who seize their agency, and subversive, unexpected re-visionings of 12 familiar stories. The standout story in this collection […]
Book Review: The Book of Living Secrets by Madeline Roux
February 19, 2022**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk** Quill Tree Press, 2022 ISBN-13 : 978-0062941428 Available: Preorder (available March 8) hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) So many readers wish they could enter the worlds of their favorite books. The Book of Living Secrets will make them think twice. Adelle and Connie have been best friends for years, […]
**Cross posted from the Circulation Desk.** Tor.com, 2021 ISBN-13 : 978-1250781505 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes brings the present day into a literary and folkloric past that brings fairytales, history, and Jewish tradition together to form something new and unique. I don’t think I have ever […]