Tag: fantasy
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Reading a 1775 Cinderella Story
It’s a small book, just a smidge larger than my palm, and more rectangular. The cover was once maybe green, maybe brown, but has faded and molted in a way that looks almost mossy. It is bound together with twine woven up and down the spine. I’m at the Smathers Library on the University of…
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Backlist Review: Vicious & Vengeful
Despite 100% purchasing these books myself—and looking at their spines on my shelves for months—I realized as I opened the front cover during boarding at DCA, that I had no idea what they were about.
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My Contrary Mary
Maybe it’s time to try something new.
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The Arc of a Scythe Trilogy
After letting the books grow dusty on my shelves for a year, I finally took the plunge and read Neal Shusterman’s Scythe Trilogy
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Spinning Silver
I’m the first to admit I’m not a big fantasy reader–but I know it comes from commitment issues, so finding a standalone fantasy was intriguing!
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The Dark Fantastic
When I saw a tweet about a book about race in fantasy, I was intrigued
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Four Dead Queens
Murder and mayhem and queens oh my.
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The Black Witch
People who know me know I don’t LOVE fantasy, but since this was a class assignment, I decided to shoot for a fantasy/sci-fi novel that would fit my other interests.
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Author Spotlight: Samantha Shannon
The huge, thousand-plus page ARC of The Priory of the Orange Tree has been one of the most requested ARCs this past year, and now, it’s finally out in the real world for everyone to read. To celebrate, let’s look back on Samantha Shannon’s other work. The Priory of the Orange Tree The House of…
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The Continent: Original ARC
My YA literature class this spring asks us to read a “banned or challenged book” that we haven’t read, and coincidentally, right around that time I won a Twitter book giveaway and a signed, original ARC of the Continent, before the rewrite, landed on my doorstep. I couldn’t help myself.
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Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
My new favorite series is back with the second book, Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow.
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Two Dark Reigns
Katharine, Arsinoe, and Mirabella return in the third installment of the Queens of Fennbirn series that began with Three Dark Crowns.
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