General Blog Admin Note for Coming Year. 2017 Focus is the theme of 2017, and that is how things will be: a little more regimented, a little more symmetrical, making things more reliably updated in terms of content. That should hopefully appease those who may have been thinking rather this blog was perhaps a vanishing…
Tag: magic
Dani Hoots’ Review of Urban Allies Anthology edited by Joseph Nassise
Urban Allies edited by Joseph Nassise Amazon/Barnes&Noble/Goodreads Published by: Harper Voyager Edited by: Joe Nassise Review by: Dani Hoots From the Back Cover In this impressive anthology, twenty of today’s hottest urban fantasy authors pair up to write ten new and original stories featuring beloved characters from their own bestselling series Urban Allies unites two beloved characters…
Dani Hoots’ review of The Neverland Wars by Audrey Greathouse
The Neverland Wars by Audrey Greathouse Amazon/Barnes&Noble/Goodreads Published by: Clean Teen Publishing Review by: Dani Hoots Magic can do a lot―give you flight, show you mermaids, help you taste the stars, and… solve the budget crisis? That’s what the grown-ups will do with it if they ever make it to Neverland to steal its magic and…
Review of “Until We Meet Again,” by: Renee Collins
Indiebound/Amazon/Barnes & Nobles Synopsis (Taken from Indiebound): Country clubs and garden parties. The last thing Cassandra wants is to spend the summer before her senior year marooned in a snooty Massachusetts shore town. Cass craves drama and adventure, which is hard when she just feels stuck. But when a dreamy stranger shows up on her…
Bibliophile’s Reverie Book Club: “Discovery of Witches” Discussion Post #2-Chapters 14-23
Be sure, if you haven’t already, to obtain a copy of Discovery of Witches from either Indiebound (independent book stores), Kobo, Barnes and Nobles, Amazon, or at your local library. Today, we’ll be mostly focusing our discussion on the philosophical/thematic nature of alchemy in of itself, and the components that interact and fuse together to have…
Review of Uprooted by: Naomi Novik
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Indiebound Synopsis of book, Taken from Amazon Product Detail Page: “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s…
Siren’s Fury Feature Part 1: Jessica C’s Review of Siren’s Fury by Mary Weber
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/Goodreads Note from Blog Admin: This will serve as the first of two reviews of the second installment of this epic YA fantasy trilogy, written by the talented Mary Weber. The second part, consisting of a second review, will be published this Friday (as myself and Jessica are big…
Review of “Shadow Study” by Maria V. Snyder: Maria V. Snyder Wednesday
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Goodreads As promised to fans of Maria V. Snyder’s books (who also happen to be devoted readers of this blog), here is my review of the highly anticipated start of a new series in the worlds of both Ixia and its neighboring country of magic Sitia. But this time around, Maria V….
Review of Greer Macallister’s “The Magician’s Lie” & Tea Recipe
Amazon/Barnes & Nobles/ Kobo/Author’s Website/ Goodreads SONG RECOMMENDATION FOR BOOK: Emilie Autumn’s empowering anthem, Fight Like a Girl, the lead single for her most recent album, boasting the same title as the song., fits perfectly with the predominant theme and struggle for Ada, the main character in this story, who later adopts the stage moniker of “The…
Review of “The Magician’s Land,” by Lev Grossman & Giveaway Details
Custom Crowdsourced “Magician’s Land,” trailer, produced and filmed by Viking Books Giveaway Details: Below this blurb of text, you’ll be able to follow a link (acessed by clicking one of two relevant, magic-themed images below), which should take you directly to a separate page, where you will be prompted to accomplishing different activities to earn…
Countdown to “The Magician’s Land:” Review of Lev Grossman “The Magician King”
Custom Crowdsourced “Magician’s Land,” trailer, produced and filmed by Viking Books trong>Giveaway Details: Below this blurb of text, you’ll be able to follow a link (acessed by clicking relevant, magic-themed image below), which should take you directly to a separate page, where you will be prompted to accomplishing different activities to earn entries for this…
Countdown to “The Magician’s Land:” Review of The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Custom Crowdsourced “Magician’s Land,” trailer, produced and filmed by Viking Books For the next two consecutive Saturdays, preceding the August 5th release of the concluding installment of Lev Grossman’s Magicians Trilogy, I will be featuring reviews here of the two prior installments of the series: The Magicians & The Magician’s King. Giveaway Details: Below this blurb of text, you’ll…
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