Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
★★★☆☆ At a cursory glance, it has always seemed like there were multiple Salman Rushdies. First and foremost, there’s the genius behind novels like The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children, the...
View ArticleEmperor of the Eight Islands (The Tale of Shikanoko Book 1) by Lian Hearn
★★☆☆☆ The first installment of Lian Hearn’s four-volume Tale of Shikanoko series (all of which will be published this summer by FSG), Emperor of the Eight Islands is an ambitious introduction that...
View ArticleA Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
★★★★☆ Michael Cunningham’s tiny take on ten fairy tales is filled with wondrous things. Equal to his prose in these re-imagined stories are superb drawings by Yuko Shimizu: reminiscent of Aubrey...
View ArticleBeren and Lúthien by J.R.R. Tolkien
★★★★☆ Beren and Lúthien. These two names are engraved on the tombstone beneath the names of John Ronald Ruel Tolkien and Edith Bratt Tolkien. They met when he was 16 and she 19. His... The post Beren...
View ArticleSea Witch by Sarah Henning
★★★★☆ Sea Witch by Sarah Henning is the story of how a young girl, desperate to protect those she loves and find a place in her society, becomes the villain in “The Little Mermaid”... The post Sea...
View ArticleShip of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
★★★★☆ Ship of Smoke and Steel follows eighteen-year-old magic-wielder Isoka as she fights to save the lives of the handful of people she loves. She uses her magic, the power of Melos from the... The...
View ArticleThe Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
★★★★★ The disappearances started small. A certain type of candy, let’s say, was one morning gone — not gone from the stores but wiped from existence. Every resident of the unnamed island of The... The...
View ArticleSea Witch Rising by Sarah Henning
★★★★☆ Sea Witch Rising is the sequel to Sarah Henning’s fabulous Sea Witch. This time two mermaids seek to become human, and the sea king is irate when Evie, the sea witch, helps them... The post Sea...
View ArticleThe Wickerlight by Mary Watson
★★★★☆ YA fantasy, murder mystery, and romance, The Wickerlight by Mary Watson follows Zara as she desperately seeks answers to her sister’s death and final days and David as he searches for his role......
View ArticleHavenfall by Sara Holland
★★★☆☆ Maddie wants nothing more than to be named the successor to Havenfall: the inn connecting our world to hundreds more. But when her beloved uncle falls ill, she’s thrust into the role too... The...
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