Title: Rosetta Gnome Author: Ashley Parker Owens Genre: Fantasy / Speculative Fiction Twenty-one-year-old gnome Wil and his traveling companion, a sad rabbit named Roddy, wash up on a riverbank after escaping from a fire in their village. They meet a group of gnomes who welcome them to their clan of former slaves who… Read More Rosetta Gnome – Editorial Review
Wizard’s First Rule Series: Sword of Truth #1 Format: Kindle Rating: 4 stars Synopsis: (Taken from Goodreads) Richard Cypher’s decision to help a woman in the Upper Ven near the Boundary between the Midlands and Westlands creates more trouble than first appears. The woman, Kahlan Amnell, brings with her dark news from the other side… Read More Wizard’s First Rule – Book Review
The Assassin’s Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke Release date: October 2012 Borrowed from local library My rating: 5/5 stars “The vendor shouted behind me, angry curses that would’ve made a real lady blush. Then Tarrin joined in, screaming at me to come back, hollering that he hadn’t been joking about the assassins. I squeezed… Read More Assassin’s Curse – Book Review
Title: The Raven Boys Author: Maggie Stiefvater Publisher: Scholastic Press Published on: September 2013 Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Young-Adult Fiction Synopsis (via Goodreads): “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”
Half the World – Guest Book Review I was very excited for this book, so much so that I pre-ordered it and not-so patently waited for it to come out. I was not disappointed. This follow up to Half A King was a little bit of a surprise in the total shift in protagonist. I… Read More Half the World – Book Review
The Ancient Chronicles: The Newborn – Guest Post Review Synopsis: Badly treated by his father, Leonardo spends the evening hiding away only to find his entire family brutally murdered the next morning. That night, he’d had a dream about monsters, but it had only been a dream, right? Perhaps not, as his family… Read More The Ancient Chronicles: The Newborn – Book Review
Plato Wyngard and the Valley of the Immortals – Guest Post Review This review was kindly requested by Marc Lindsay. Plato Wyngard and the Valley of the Immortals is a thriller fiction story, written about Plato Wyngard. He is in search of answers for his father’s death; instead, he becomes stuck in the… Read More Plato Wyngard and the Valley of the Immortals – Book Review
The Winter Knife – Guest Post Book Review My rating: 4 of 5 stars Good YA literature will stay with me long after I am finished with it, even as an adult. I would have been in the prime target audience for this book when I was a teenager, and I would… Read More The Winter Knife – Book Review
-Guest book review contributed by Caffeine and Books- Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas – Book #1 Individual book rating: 4 out of 5 “Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness. In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the… Read More Throne of Glass – Book Review
-Guest book review by Kate M. Colby- A Convergence of Worlds: An Anthology of Fantasy Short Stories by Dawn Chance, Dave D’Alessio, C. Scott Davis, & Dan Thole Kate’s rating: 3 of 5 stars Disclaimer: One of the book’s authors provided me with a code to download a free version of this book in exchange for an honest review.… Read More A Convergence of Worlds – Book Review
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