Posts Tagged ‘fantasy’
Goodreads Review: Breaking Dawn
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Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer My rating: 1 of 5 stars Ho boy. So I mildly enjoyed the first two books in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series–enough that I considered myself somewhat of a Twilight apologist. No, no, I tried to convince the naysayers, she’s really not all bad! Though I found Twilight and New Moon [...]
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Goodreads Review: Pucker
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Pucker by Melanie Gideon My rating: 4 of 5 stars My mother loves many things, but two more than most: books and thrift shopping. Sometimes she combines the two, grabbing unusual hardcovers for a dollar or so from her favorite thrift store. Because she’s awesome, she sometimes mails them to me. Often wonderful, these are [...]
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Goodreads Review: Thirteenth Child
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Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede My rating: 3 of 5 stars I was a big, big fan of Patricia Wrede’s “dragons” series in middle school, though my memories of those books are vague. I remembered them fondly–as slim, plot-driven, funny, and somewhat feminist tales–so I was eager to revisit her writing in Thirteenth Child. [...]
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Goodreads Review: A Great and Terrible Beauty
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A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray My rating: 4 of 5 stars It took me about eight tries to successfully dive in to Libba Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty. “I’m just not sure if I want to read about a rich, bratty Victorian teen and her privileged experiences,” I told my friend [...]
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Goodreads Review: The Summoning
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The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong My rating: 3 of 5 stars Oh, how I wanted to adore Kelley Armstrong’s The Summoning. And, to be fair, there’s a lot to like here between just the cover and the first handful of chapters. Armstrong promises us the dark and alluring story of Chloe Saunders, a fifteen-year-old girl [...]
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Goodreads Review: Tithe
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Tithe by Holly Black My rating: 4 of 5 stars Have you ever read a novel and wished you’d found it sooner? It might seem strange, but even though I’m a frequent consumer of YA, I rarely find myself wishing I’d read a book when I was a teenager. Usually, I’m just glad for the [...]
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Goodreads Review: The Books of Magic Volume 1: Bindings
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The Books of Magic Vol. 1: Bindings by John Ney Rieber My rating: 4 of 5 stars This second volume in the Books of Magic series (numbered, confusingly, as volume 1) further develops the character of Timothy Hunter and begins to explore his mythic origins. When Tim is drawn away from his world by his [...]
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Goodreads Review: the Books of Magic
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The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman My rating: 4 of 5 stars My wonderful husband bought me all of the many volumes of this series for Valentines Day–with a note inside that said that the best things about my writing remind him of The Books of Magic. Aw. He did warn me, though, that [...]
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Goodreads Review: The Passion
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The Passion is the final entry in L.J. Smith’s Dark Visions trilogy, and easily the most memorable in the series. The novel begins with the core group of teenage psychics fractured by the departure of psychic vampire Gabriel, but through quick pacing and the inclusion of several strikingly memorable scenes, Smith is able to weather the plot changes to bring the series to its riveting (if tidy) conclusion.
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Goodread Review: The Strange Power
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The Strange Power by L.J. Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve written before about my adolescent love for L. J. Smith’s writing, particularly the Night World series. But, even at thirteen, I was never much for vampires. I was always a more fervent fan of her Dark Visions universe, described in a trilogy [...]
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