Looking for fantasy with an Irish flavor for your St. Patrick’s Day reading? Try one of these: Dark Witch (review), Shadow Spell (review), and Blood Magick by Nora Roberts. Magic and romance, time travel and an ancient evil, all set in contemporary Ireland. Hounded (book 1 in the Iron… 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 »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Want to Read in X Genre. Top Ten Fantasy Books I Want to Read As usual, these aren’t really in any order. And I couldn’t pare it down… Read more »
Beastkeeper by Cat Hellisen Published by Macmillan on February 3rd 2015 Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, MG Books, YA (Young Adult) Pages: 208 Format: eARC Source: the publisher Add to Goodreads Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their… 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 »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I Read in 2014. Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is pretty broad, so I decided to narrow it to just the best fantasy and science fiction novels. Not all… Read more »
Wednesdays in the Tower by Jessica Day George Series: Castle Glower #2 Published by Bloomsbury USA Children’s on 5/07/13 Genres: Children’s Books, Fantasy, MG Books Add to Goodreads Also by this author: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, Princess of the Midnight Ball A castle that is constantly rearranging itself,… Read more »
Description: After the Affair of the Clockwork Scarab, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes are eager to help Princess Alix with a new case. Seventeen-year-old Willa Aston is obsessed with spiritual mediums, convinced she is speaking with her mother from beyond the grave. What seems like a case of spiritualist fraud… Read more »
Kat, Incorrigible Series: Kat Incorrigible #1 Pages: 304 Add to Goodreads Katherine Ann Stephenson has just discovered that she’s inherited her mother’s magical talents, and despite Stepmama’s stern objections, she’s determined to learn how to use them. But with her eldest sister Elissa’s intended fiancé, the sinister Sir Neville, showing… Read more »
