Tag: Fantasy


Crewel by Gennifer Albin – Review

Crewel by Gennifer Albin (web | facebook | twitter) Book I  Crewel World  Genre: YA, Dystopian, Fantasy Expected publication: October 16th 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Copy from publisher Get your own: amazon | BookDepository Rating: Crewel by Gennifer Albin  on goodreads:  Incapable. Awkward. Artless. That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen […]

Posted 18 September, 2012 by Danny in Blog, Danny, Danny's Book Review, Featured / 34 Comments
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Review: The Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson and John Paterson

The Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson and John Paterson (website, Facebook Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Publication: September 27th by Candlewick Press Audiobook borrowed from library Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: A robust and wildly entertaining fairy tale, freely abridged from Eden Phillpotts’s 1910 fantasy and wryly retold by […]

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Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff – Review

Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff (web | Book 1 in the The Lotus War  Genre: YA, Fantasy, Steampunk Expected publication: September 18th 2012 by Thomas Dunne Books Copy from publisher Get your own: amazon | BookDepository Rating: Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff  on goodreads:  A DYING LAND  The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse; an island nation once rich […]

Posted 30 August, 2012 by Danny in Blog, Danny, Danny's Book Review / 23 Comments
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Review – The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads  Website  Blog Facebook Twitter) Hardcover, 408 pages Expected publication: September 18th 2012 by Scholastic Press ISBN 0545424925 (ISBN13: 9780545424929) Synopsis by Goodreads Rating: “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”It is […]

Posted 16 July, 2012 by Danny in Blog, Book Review, Kristen / 35 Comments
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Defiance by C.J. Redwine – Review

Defiance by C.J. Redwine (blog , facebook, twitter) Book I in the Defiance Series Genre: YA, Dystopian, Fantasy publication: August 28th 2012 by Balzer + Bray copy received from publisher Get your own: amazon | Book Depository  format: Hardcover, eBook  Rating: Defiance by C.J. Redwine (synopsis from goodreads): Within the walls of Baalboden, beneath the shadow of the city’s brutal leader, Rachel […]

Posted 16 July, 2012 by Danny in Blog, Danny, Danny's Book Review / 55 Comments
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Review and Give-Away: Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal

Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal (website, Facebook | Twitter) Genre: Historical Fantasy Publication: April 10th, 2012 by Tor Books Finished copy received from publisher in exchange for an honest review Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades […]

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Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas – Review

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (web, facebook, twitter ) Book I in the Throne of Glass series Genre; YA, Fantasy publication: August 7th 2012 by Bloomsbury USA Children’s copy received from publisher via NetGalley Get your own: amazon | Book Depository Synopsis from goodreads Rating: After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of […]

Posted 2 July, 2012 by Danny in Blog, Danny, Danny's Book Review / 40 Comments
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Review: Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (website, Facebook | Twitter) Genre: Historical Paranormal Publication: August 3rd, 2010 by Tor Books Borrowed from library Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating:   Shades of Milk and Honey is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman ahead of […]

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Review: Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner

Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner (website, Facebook) Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Publication: September 28th 2010 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers Audiobook borrowed from library Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: Welcome to the tyrannical city of Jewel, where impatience is a sin and boldness is a crime. […]

Posted 19 June, 2012 by Pushy in Pushy, Pushy Book Review / 20 Comments
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