My friend Jenny Kalahar releases her new YA fantasy, about a kid with a crummy magical power. Continue reading
Tag Archives: YA
Book Review: Princess Academy
A school for fantasy princesses? Sure, let’s cover the usual academic standards of Deportment, Grace, Manners, Geography, Dancing. One problem: not every girl wants to be princess. Continue reading
Book Review: Book of a Thousand Days
Shannon Hale YA Fantasy Ok, this is the Hebrew cover, but it’s just stunningly symbolic, so that’s what you get this time. Book of a Thousand Days has just about everything I have come to love in Shannon Hale, in abundance. She brings a surprising depth, even a kind of ache, to her fairy tales. … Continue reading
Book Review: Backwards
Todd Mitchell YA fiction/ spec fic First, I love the premise. The book takes place backwards. So like the movie Titanic, we already know the boat sinks. Only in this book the disaster at the end, which is really page one, is that a young man with everything going for him commits suicide. The question … Continue reading
Book Review: Forest Born
THE BOOKS OF BAYERN #4 Shannon Hale YA Fantasy Oh, author Shannon Hale, you got me again. I thought you’d fallen so in love with your own characters from the first 3 books of the series, that book 4 would just be an excuse to go hang out with them again. Regardless of a plot. … Continue reading
Book Review – Captured (The Divided Realms #1)
No two persons ever read the same book. -Edmund Wilson Which is good, because it gives us a chance to discuss books. And there’s nothing I enjoy more than analyzing a book to a pulp. Well, eating chocolate-covered bacon may come close, but there’s no guilt after you read a book. That’s called “market research.” I review … Continue reading
