I got Crista McHugh’s A Soul For Trouble for cheap in a Amazon daily deal, and it was worth the sale price. Now, I did enjoy the book (even if it doesn’t seem like it), and I will be getting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Jessica Day George’s final Westfalin book does not drop the idea of being a fairy tale retelling—except as a practical matter. Technically, this is a Little Red Riding Hood retelling, and there’s enough elements that you can see the relationship,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jessica Day George’s sequel to Princess of the Midnight Ball is every bit as good as the original, and in some ways more interesting. The book successfully juggles two main point-of-view characters, Poppy (the ‘roughest’ of the twelve princesses), and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I actually don’t know much of fairy tales past the ones that Disney has engraved on popular culture, but I actually ran into “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” in the webcomic Erstwhile a year or so ago, which was just long[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Danielle Jensen’s first novel reads fast, but has quite a bit going on in it. At the start of the story, the main character (Cécile) is kidnapped, and taken to a hidden city of trolls, where she is ‘bonded’ to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Barbara Hambly is a name I saw a fair amount of when I was haunting SF&F bookshelves as stores as a teenager, but I never got around to trying any of her books. I later found that I indeed had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…