Category: fantasy
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Book Review: Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
In a magical Tokyo pawnshop, people who find it are given the choice to pawn their regrets. Hana inherits the shop from her father, and on her first day, she wakes to the shop ransacked and her father missing…
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Book Review: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
I am one of the few Americans who has never seen The Wizard of Oz all the way through. Not because I’ve never liked the story, but because the beginning of the movie terrified me as a child and I just haven’t felt like going back. I have seen Wicked on Broadway, though, and I love that story. Since…
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Book Review: Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
I’ve been intrigued by this story for a long time. I’ve seen clips of the movie adaptation and I’ve listened to the Broadway musical soundtrack, but I wanted to hold off on fully watching the movie or looking into the musical until I read the book…
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Book Review: The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
I knew I was gambling with this book because I didn’t love The Wishing Game even though I really wanted to. I was hopeful when I saw that The Lost Story is supposedly inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia, but I didn’t see it aside from a second realm, and that’s a massive stretch if we’re looking for comparison…
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Book Review: The Tapestry of Time by Kate Heartfield
This book was a new venture for me. I read a lot of historical fiction, but I’ve never read one with a paranormal edge to it. I was intrigued because clairvoyance sounded like it would add an interesting element to a World War II story…
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Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett
I must say, I’m impressed with myself for starting and finishing this series without a major gap in between the books. I read Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries this past November and I finished Compendium in March…
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Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
Picking up where Encyclopaedia of Faeries ends, Emily Wilde is beginning another project: mapping the faerie realms. Her research, along with the interest of Wendell Bambleby, brings her to map and study the various portals to these realms…
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Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
This book was initially recommended to me by a friend because of the historical and academic tone, but I’d put it off being intimidated by the faerie storyline. When it ended up being selected for a group read, I decided not to put it off any longer. Definitely different for me, but a nice different!…
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Book Review: The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
I can see why people really love this book and I so wanted to be one of those people. Alas, it was not a good match for me…
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Book Review: I’m Getting Married to Mothman by Paige Lavoie
It’s wedding time! This is the third and final book in the Mothman in Love series and it’s a doozy. A notable difference this time around is the addition of Moth’s POV…