Category: fantasy
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Book Review: The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang
Lonely and barely getting by, Serin wishes she could change her life. Living with her mother in poverty after the death of her father and her sister has run away, she feels isolated and without direction for her future. Her only hope is a ticket to the ‘Rainfall Market’…
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Book Review: Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
I’m normally not drawn to YA Fantasy, but the cover of this one caught my eye at the bookstore. Outside of One Piece and Frenchman’s Creek, I’ve never ventured into pirate stories. I thought this one might be a fun read…
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Book Review: The Frog Knight by E.B. Roshan
I always enjoy reading E.B. Roshan’s comics, but seeing that this story is a retelling of The Frog Prince, I was even more excited than usual!…
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Book Review: The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura
I have been loving this genre of cozy Japanese magical realism books lately. A small part of me was nervous that I would be fatiguing myself with these types of books by picking this up relatively soon after the last one (given it’s not a go-to), but it’s now one of my favorites in the…
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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…