Aislinn has the Sight. She sees faeries everywhere, and faeries are terrifying enough that she spends most of her life trying to make sure faeries don’t notice her. Unfortunately, she comes to the attention of the Summer King, Keenan, who must convince her to become his queen. Keenan is bound to play out a scenario set […]
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Book Review: Elphame’s Choice by P.C. Cast
June 19, 2014Elphame, the Chosen of the Goddess Epona, is half-centaur and half-human. She leaves the luxury of home, and her mother, the Goddess Incarnate, to travel to a crumbling castle. Elphame is determined to revive the site, once the scene of slaughter, and find her place in the world. When she arrives, she finds the half-breed descendants of the Fomorians, […]
Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
October 2, 2013What started off as “Harry Potter goes bad girl” jumps ahead from Magical Reform School drama to Major Magical Uprising in this second book from Rachel Hawkins. In Hex Hall, main character Sophie Mercer learned she wasn’t really a witch, but a demon, when she had to battle her own summoned grandmother. In Demonglass, Sophie […]
Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
September 27, 2013Sophie knows she’s a witch, but that’s about all she knows. She’s never met her warlock father. Her human mother tries, but can help her very little. When Sophie tries to help a classmate with a love spell–and it goes horribly wrong–she is sent to Hex Hall by the Council that rules the Prodigium, which […]
Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston
September 20, 2013Can I just start with: I absolutely loved this book? It’s not perfect, the pace is off, more heavily loaded in the back end making it feel rushed. The leads are a little too perfect and powerful at times. But there are pirates, and dragons, and psychic/magical powers, fae, and it’s all set in a […]
I Was a Teenage Fairy by Francesca Lia Block
August 5, 2013Block is one of my favorites for off beat but surprisingly soulful tales. I had a pretty good idea what I was getting into in this one before I even noticed the handwritten notes about the book someone so kindly left on the inside cover. Barbie is the daughter of a former beauty queen who […]
Review: The Amulet by Alison Pensy
July 16, 2012ISBN: 0982543808 Available in Mass Market Paperback or e-book Faedra Bennett was still a child when she lost her mother, and only her doting father and mysterious stray dog-turned Guardian got her through the grief. Now she is a young woman on the eve of adulthood, and she is going to need the support of […]
Review: Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel
April 4, 2012Random House Children’s, 2012 ISBN: 0375869387 Available: hardcover & multiformat ebook Callie lives with her mom in a grand old hotel in the middle of the Dust Bowl and has spent the last years watching it, and their town, slowly blow away with the wind. If this life wasn’t difficult enough Callie has a dark […]