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REVIEW of The Thirteenth Princess by Nina Clare
You’ve all heard the story of the twelve dancing princesses…but what about the thirteenth princess, the one with no name who was written out of the story? A blight on the perfect symmetry of her four sets of triplet siblings, “Princess” is the unpolished stone in a family of gems. But although she may not…
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REVIEW of Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Odin. Thor. Loki. These are the main players in Neil Gaiman’s retelling of the old Norse myths. And what a retelling it is! Although I was familiar with the myths from my childhood (remembering the same Roger Lancelyn Green book that Gaiman references in his intro), the way that Gaiman weaves them together is truly…
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REVIEW of The Swan King by Nina Clare
Elsa is a beautiful and unusual girl in nineteenth century Bavaria. She has the mysterious gift of being able to talk to animals, a gift that could prove valuable to cruel Count Wuelfen as he builds his stable of racehorses. When Elsa’s father disappears on a business trip, her greedy stepmother arranges for her to…
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REVIEW of Crown of Coral and Pearl by Mara Rutherford
Nor and Zadie are twins, identical to each other in every way except for the scar on Nor’s cheek. While diving for pearls (the only resource they can trade for food and water), Nor was scraped by the lethal blood coral, surviving the incident only to retain a mysterious healing agent inside herself. Part of…
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REVIEW of The Girl the Sea Gave Back (Sky in the Deep) by Adrienne Young
Washed ashore in a half-burned boat, Tova was adopted (enslaved?) into the Svell tribe as a young child. She knows next to nothing about her birth tribe, the Kyrr, or the mysterious black symbols tattooed across her white skin. What she does know, however, is that she has the gift of casting the stones, and…
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REVIEW of The Lady and the Wish: A King Thrushbeard Romance (Faraway Castle #4) by J.M. Stengl
Gillian is a spoiled brat who has her heart set on marrying royalty. But when her father reveals an embarrassing debt to another aristocratic family, Gillian is forced to leave her life of glitz, glamor, and social media braggadocio to work as companion to an old lady at a remote villa. The temperamental dowager seems…
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INTERVIEW with Peter Bunzl, Author of The Cogheart Adventures
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REVIEW of West (East #2) by Edith Pattou
After rescuing her White Bear prince in the previous book, Rose is living happily with Charles and their children Estelle and Winn, but not happily ever after. When she travels to visit her parents, she learns that Charles’ own ship has been shipwrecked. As Rose tries to trace his whereabouts, Winn and Estelle disappear, and…
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REVIEW of The Warrior Maiden (Hagenheim #9) by Melanie Dickerson
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REVIEW of The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon Wallwork
Clara Stahlbaum has been practicing her Johann Kahler Sonata for two years. On Christmas Day she will play it at the concert hall, attract the attention of handsome pianist Johann Kahler, and finally have her happily ever after. But when a strange Nutcracker shows up on her piano, she finds herself whisked away to the…
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