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Tag Archives: book review
American Gods and the absent Jesus
American Gods by Neil Gaiman Another fantastic book by Neil Gaiman. This one is very dark. (Definitely not intended for a YA audience.) The subject matter is also huge: Jesus, just look at the title! American Gods . But that’s just the thing. There’s … Continue reading
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Tagged American Gods, book review, Christianity, criticism, fantasy, Neil Gaiman, religion
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Oh my stars! What a big list of book reviews!
A couple of changes to the blog: First, I added a page called the Big List of Book Recs See it up there? It has all the books I’ve reviewed on the blog: all on one page! I hope to … Continue reading
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Tagged best, book review, ranking, recommendations, sci-fi fantasy, YA, young adult
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Cold howling teens in love: Review of Shiver
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater This is a teenage werewolf love story. I’m not giving anything away here. A wolf attack survivor, Grace is obsessed with the a wolf she’s seen in the woods behind her house, every winter ever since … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, fantasy, Maggie Stiefvater, paranormal romance, Shiver, werewolves, YA, young adult
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Fantastic Recommends: Anna Dressed in Blood
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Cas Lowood is a ghost hunter. He’s got a knife and an inherited power that allows him to take out the real baddies, the ghosts who kill. Following a tip, he travels a … Continue reading
Fantastic Recommends: Divergent
Divergent by Veronica Roth Beatrice lives in a dystopian Chicago where everybody is assigned to a faction, according to their dominant character trait. She is in “abnegation” which is a fancy word for selflessness. At 16-years-old, all the teenagers in … Continue reading
Graceling and Bad Ass, Killer Girls
Graceling by Kim Cashore Katsa has a talent for killing people, and she’s not an evil witch or nemesis in Graceling. She’s the heroine. Graceling is set in a typical high-fantasy world of small kingdoms with a bit of magic, a … Continue reading
Fantastic Recommends: The Wrong Sword
The Wrong Sword by Ted Mendelssohn Henry is a faker. He helps trick Parisian nobles into buying fake swords of power, medieval knightly knock-offs, if you will, but when he tricks the wrong person, he suddenly finds himself on an … Continue reading
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and the adult “children’s book”
Wow. This is one terrific, terrible book! Let me explain… Coraline is about a young girl who likes exploring and finds a hidden door to another world… so far a pretty common premise for a “children’s book,” right? But what’s … Continue reading
Fantastic Recommends: Witch Child
by Celia Rees* Must have been tough to live during the times of witch hunts, especially if you were a real live witch. That’s the essential premise of Witch Child. It’s 1659, and Mary, a young English girl, finds herself … Continue reading
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Tagged 1600s, amazon, book, book review, Celia Rees, fantasy, historical, New World, Puritans, sara zaske, Sorceress, Witch, Witch Child, YA Fantastic Book Review, young adult
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Fantastic Finds: Somewhere Over the Freakin’ Rainbow
by L.L. Muir Never spy on the neighbors, even if they’re a cultish tribe of people who hold secret late-night rituals in the cornfields behind your house, and you have a tree house with a perfect view. Sounds pretty tempting, … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book review, indie, L.L. Muir, self-published, Somewhere over the Freakin' Rainbow, YA, YA Fantastic Book Review
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