Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Books-A-Million/GoodReads Welcome to another edition of Maria V. Snyder Wednesdays! These weekly features will henceforth continue for the next six weeks, as I plan on covering many more Maria V. Snyder books beyond the Study Trilogy. As such, you will see new reviews of titles from the Glass Trilogy and Inside Out Trilogy. The reason for the continuation…
Tag: fantasy
Maria V. Snyder Author Highlight Wednesdays: Poison Study Retrospective
Amazon/Barnes and Nobles/ Books-A-Million/ Goodreads/Author Website From my older version, more outdated looking Blogspot blog, this is the 2009 version of my Poison Study review, dredged up for comparison’s sake! When finding the exact link for my previous, nearly five-year old review of Maria V. Snyder’s Poison Study, I forbade myself from reading it over, as I wanted the…
Dani Hoots’ Review of Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien De Castell with a Q&A with the author
Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien De Castell Amazon/Barnes & Noble Published by: Quercus Available: July 15, 2014 Review Written by: Dani Hoots A mix of The Princess Bride, Three Musketeers, and Brother’s Grimm, Sebastien De Castell’s Traitor’s Blade has everything you want in an epic fantasy. From swashbuckling action, to magic, to romance, and with Brasti’s crazy archery…
Female Magic Wielder Month: Author Highlight: Maria V. Snyder
Duties in Life include- adept wordsmith (linguistic wizard), and part-time military strategist, as exemplified through the character of Avry from the Healer Series (not really, but it will prove to be an indispensable skill, when the zombie apocalypse rolls around.) Some of her noteworthy titles, featuring dynamic, powerful female magic wielder include: Click on…
Review of Emily Croy Barker’s “The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic”
Amazon.com (Kindle edition)/ Barnes & Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo/Books-A-Million *Review part of Female Magic Wielder’s Month-End of June-End of July* While reading this enchanting book, the main musical theme from Miyazaki’s “Howl’s Moving Castle,” kept waltzing around my mind,both merrily and excitedly,indicative of my main mood while reading “The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic.”…
Female Magic Wielder Month/ Diana Bishop Commonplace Book Giveaway Details
Addendum: This contest is open only to those living in the US, due to cost of international postage. If you are someone living outside of the US that has entered this contest, please know that I am not being discriminatory, in exempting you from winning. It is purely a pragmatic reason for doing this. Here…
Special Lev Grossman “Magician’s Kit” Giveaway!!
Become like Prospero from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and train yourself to become a literary wizard, utilizing things from the enviable, enigmatic “Magician’s Kit!” ****Contest only open to those living the USA! Thanks!**** I have never had the opportunity yet to read Lev Grossman’s Magician trilogy, but I have heard some rather excellent things about it. First off,…
Review of Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Review of Red Rising by Pierce Brown Published January 28th 2014 by Del Rey (Random House) Reviewed by Anastacia Zittel My rating: 3 of 5 stars Amazon.com (Kindle Edition)/Barnes and Nobles (Nook Edition)/Kobo/ Goodreads (all other formats) Darrow is a Helldiver, one of thousands of men and women who live beneath the surface of Mars….
BEA 2014-Google Hangout with Writers- New Feature on my blog Launched
**Information about Google Hangout Chats and how to make inquiries about potentially making use of this exiting new feature on my blog, check out my blog’s appropriate sub-page “Google Hangouts with Writers”** Excitingly, I launched my first Google Hangout on Air chat, with bountiful support from both Atria Books (of Simon &Schuster) and author Ronlyn…
Announcement about Forthcoming Google Hangout with Bestselling Writer-Ronlyn Domingue
I am very, very excited to announce that my blog will be proudly featuring Ronlyn Domingue, right around the time the second book of The Keeper of Tales series- entitled The Chronicles of Secret Riven-will be released, which will be May 20, 2014 (only a handful of weeks from…
A Bibliophile's Reverie 