The third book in Mercedes Lackey’s Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series, Fortune’s Fool is an enjoyable if eclectic remix of a number of fairy tales. Lackey takes a wide assortment of elements drawn from Russian, eastern and northern European, Japanese, and Middle Eastern folk and fairy tales, and mixes them up, higgledy-piggledy… and it works surprisingly well.
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News The Nebula Awards will be announced today (May 30), and you can watch the ceremony live on Facebook starting at 5:00 pm PDT (8:00… Read more »
Original Ideas? If there are only a limited number of basic plots, as many people claim, how does a writer make a book original, fresh, and interesting? Almost any plot line you can come up with has been done before. Heck, even fairy tales riff off each other — “Beauty… Read more »
From a High Tower Series: Elemental Masters #11 on June 2, 2015 Format: eARC Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Serpent’s Shadow, The Gates of Sleep, Phoenix and Ashes, Home from the Sea, Steadfast, Elemental Magic:, Blood Red, A Study in Sable From a High Tower is newest… May 27, 2015 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 10 ★★★
Valiant by Sarah McGuire Published by Egmont USA on April 28, 2015 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, YA (Young Adult) Pages: 384 Format: eARC Source: the publisher through NetGalley Add to Goodreads A debut fairy tale retelling featuring a strong female character and a daring quest just right for fans of… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Ten Books for People Who Love ______. (I chose Fairy Tales.) I tried to put these in order, but I just couldn’t. However, pulling this post together made me realize how many… Read more »
The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey Series: Five Hundred Kingdoms #1 Published by LUNA on July 1st 2010 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 384 Source: my personal collection Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Fortune’s Fool Also by this author: The Serpent’s Shadow, Phoenix and Ashes, Home from the Sea, Steadfast,… Read more »
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis Series: Woodcutter Sisters #1 Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on 2012 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, YA (Young Adult) Pages: 308 Format: Paperback Source: the library Add to Goodreads It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six… Read more »
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George Published by Bloomsbury USA Children’s on February 1st 2011 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, MG Books Pages: 352 Source: purchased Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Wednesdays in the Tower, Princess of the Midnight Ball Blessed-or cursed-with an ability to… Read more »
Blood Red Series: Elemental Masters #10 on June 3, 2014 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads Also in this series: The Serpent’s Shadow, The Gates of Sleep, Phoenix and Ashes, Home from the Sea, Steadfast, Elemental Magic:, From a High Tower, A Study in Sable Rosamund is an Earth Master in… August 7, 2014 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 4 ★★★
