Category: Fantasy

  • REVIEW of The Orphan’s Wish (Hagenheim #8), by Melanie Dickerson

    REVIEW of The Orphan’s Wish (Hagenheim #8), by Melanie Dickerson

    Orphaned at age five in the Holy Land, Aladdin is found by a master thief and forced to steal from market goers. But when he tries to steal from a knight and gets caught, a priest takes pity on the boy, adopts him, and brings him home to the orphanage in Hagenheim. There he grows…

  • REVIEW of The Green-Eyed Prince (Classical Kingdoms Collections #1), by Brittany Fichter

    REVIEW of The Green-Eyed Prince (Classical Kingdoms Collections #1), by Brittany Fichter

    Recently crowned queen of her desert-dwelling people, seventeen-year-old Kartek possesses healing powers and a magical jewel. An evil enchantress with her pack of monsters is attacking the neighboring tribes, and Kartek needs her gift more than ever. When the healing jewel disappears, Kartek must make a desperate bargain with a strange green-eyed man to get…

  • REVIEW of The Letter for the King, by Tonke Dragt

    REVIEW of The Letter for the King, by Tonke Dragt

    All of his life Tiuri has wanted to be a knight, but on the night before his accolade, a knock on the door turns his whole world upside down. Instead of kneeling before the candles keeping vigil in the chapel, he opens the door and accepts the quest given to him by a desperate old…

  • REVIEW of On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, by Andrew Peterson

    REVIEW of On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness, by Andrew Peterson

    On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness is the first book in the Wingfeather Saga. It follows the story of Janner, Tink, and Leeli, the three Igiby children, who try to escape the clutches of the evil Fangs of Dang while learning the secrets of their family’s past. The vile lizard/snake creatures who…

  • REVIEW of Strays, by Remy Wilkins

    REVIEW of Strays, by Remy Wilkins

    Rodney has been abandoned, sent to live with weird Uncle Ray while his mother and father get their lives together after a divorce. At first, it seems that the worst thing about his exile is being forced to play baseball or to endure sobriquets like “Rod-nacious,” but when Rodney discovers that his Uncle Ray may…

  • REVIEW of The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2), by Eoin Colfer

    REVIEW of The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2), by Eoin Colfer

    The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer is a YA sci-fi/fantasy series starring a young criminal mastermind, his trusty Butler, and a spunky police officer from the fairy realm named Holly Short. In this second book of the series, Artemis learns that his father–whose ship was blown up off the coast of Russia two years…

  • REVIEW of The Drowned Vault, by N.D. Wilson

    REVIEW of The Drowned Vault, by N.D. Wilson

    This review should have happened several months ago, back in 2012. It’s part of my catch-up for the new year to get this book review blog back on track. I bought The Drowned Vault, by N.D. Wilson the day it was released and read it cover to cover by the next day. Cy and Tigs,…

  • REVIEW of Deerskin, by Robin McKinley

    REVIEW of Deerskin, by Robin McKinley

    Robin McKinley is one of my all-time favorite YA authors. Not only do I love her imaginative stories, but she also writes with grippingly beautiful prose. Deerskin, a fairy tale adaptation written for adults, was one of the few McKinley creations that I had not read. Imagine my surprise when I discovered this Kirkus Review…

  • REVIEW of The Woodcutter, by Kate Danley

    REVIEW of The Woodcutter, by Kate Danley

    When I was little, my favorite part of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show was always the “Fractured Fairytales” segment. I loved how they took classic fairy tales and gave them a humorous twist. Lately, this same idea has become increasingly popular as TV shows like Once upon a Time and movies like Shrek put their…

  • REVIEW of Pegasus, by Robin McKinley

    REVIEW of Pegasus, by Robin McKinley

    “Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.” As I mentioned in my recent review of Chalice, I greatly enjoy the opening lines to Robin McKinley’s novels. Pegasus, her latest book, is another YA fantasy, and once again, McKinley does a fabulous job of world building. For nearly a thousand years, the humans and…