Julie’s Review: The Purple Haze was an interesting fantasy novel where there are several kingdoms/queendoms and animals can speak. This makes for some hilarious characters, fun banter, and silly rules. Characters: I really liked the characters, both human and animal, because they all had their quirks and their charm. The Latino singing horse might […]
This month, Julie and I actually listened to the same book! We wanted to finish out the GILDED duology! So in celebration, here’s our joint review of the audiobook of CURSED (Gilded #2) by Marissa Meyer. If you want to read our review of GILDED, check it out here! Julie’s Review: I really enjoyed […]
This month, Julie and I actually listened to the same book! So in celebration, here’s our joint review of GILDED by Marissa Meyer. Julie’s Review: AHHHH! Why did this have to end! No I need the next book now! Ok let’s back up. I’m in a solid 4+ rating on this one. The […]
This hardcover version includes two fun fact cards about ASHANTI culture: The Kente Cloth and The Golden Stool. The Ashanti tribe of Ghana is the birthplace of this Anansi Folktale. Julie’s Review: The Spider’s Thin Legs is such a cute book. The story is told in fun rhymes and the illustrations are just […]
Julie’s Review: Retellings are typically hit or miss for me and Curiouser and Curiouser was a hit. It was short, so it didn’t get overwhelming with the crazy worldbuilding that it certainly could have been, as a steampunk retelling of Alice in Wonderland. But, it was just enough to enjoy the characters and enjoy the […]
Julie’s Review: Marissa Meyer is a genius, but we already knew that from her famous Lunar Chronicles series. I love how she takes a story and twists it all up in her adaptation of it. Heartless is a brilliant prequel, a back story for the vengeful and angry Queen of Hearts, who is famously […]
Lynn’s Review: I had all the feels while listening to A Court of Thorns and Roses. I loved everything set in Pythia – the Fae, the magic. Even the Evil Queen. The humans and the human world left me a bit put-off. A Court of Thorns and Roses is a loosely based on Beauty and […]
Lynn’s Review: Reign of Shadows is a loosely based fairy tale retelling of Rapunzel. I say loosely based because the only connection I see is that Luna lives in a tower and is a secret princess. I don’t recall any zombies from reading Rapunzel as a child! Luna has always lived in a tower, […]
Julie and I have decided that since loads of other bloggers have posted reviews of Winter, we’d take a different approach. We totally stole Bookworm Brandee’s Blogger Chick Chat idea, and went with a chat instead. Spoilers, obvs. And following our usual pattern, Julie’s chatting is in purple. My chatting is in blue. Excuse the […]
Lynn’s Review: I’ve read a slew of unremarkable books lately. And UnEnchanted is one of them. UnEnchanted is the first of the Unfortunate Fairy Tales series by Chandra Hahn. In this series, Mina Grime finds out that her actual last name is Grimm. Of Grimm’s fairy tales fame. And her family has been cursed […]