Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron Published by: Bloomsbury YA Pub Date: July 7, 2020 Pages: 389 Format: e-arc; owned | Source: NetGalley Genres: young adult, fantasy, LGBTQ+, retelling Rating: It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where … Continue reading ARC August Mini Review: Cinderella Is Dead
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Review: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall Published by: Candlewick Press Pub Date: May 5, 2020 Pages: 368 Format: e-arc | Source: NetGalley Genres: young adult, fantasy, LGBTQ+ Rating: A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high seas in a world divided by colonialism and … Continue reading Review: The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
Mini Review: Wicked As You Wish
Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco Series: A Hundred Names For Magic #1 Published by: Sourcebooks Fire Pub Date: March 3, 2020 Pages: 432 Format: e-arc | Source: NetGalley Genres: young adult, contemporary, fantasy, LGBTQ+ Rating: When a hidden prince, a girl with secrets, a ragtag group of unlikely heroes, and a legendary firebird … Continue reading Mini Review: Wicked As You Wish
Review: The Ninth Sorceress
The Ninth Sorceress by Bonnie Wynne Published by: Talem Press Pub Date: February 13, 2020 Pages: 462 Format: e-arc | Source: publisher Genres: young adult, fantasy Rating: In the blackest dungeon of the Clockwork City, a prisoner lies bound in silver shackles. Who is she? And why are the wizards so afraid of her? Seventeen-year-old Gwyn has no family … Continue reading Review: The Ninth Sorceress
Mini Review Monday: House of Salt and Sorrows
House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig Published by: Delacorte Pub Date: August 6, 2019 Pages: 416 Format: e-arc | Source: NetGalley Genres: young adult, fantasy, retelling Rating: In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were … Continue reading Mini Review Monday: House of Salt and Sorrows
Blog Tour: Sorcery of Thorns
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson Published by: Margaret K. McElderry Books Pub Date: June 4th 2019 Pages: 464 Format: arc | Source: publisher Genres: young adult, fantasy Rating (So Far): All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of … Continue reading Blog Tour: Sorcery of Thorns
Mini Review Monday: Fairytale Remix
Hunted by Meagan Spooner Published by: Harper Teen Pub Date: March 14, 2007 Pages: 374 Format: ebook | Source: library Genres: young adult, fantasy, retelling Rating: Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the … Continue reading Mini Review Monday: Fairytale Remix
Mini Review Monday: The Long Title Edition
An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason by Virginia Boecker Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pub Date: October 23, 2018 Pages: 374 Format: arc | Source: borrowed Genres: young adult, historical fiction Rating: When Lady Katherine's father is killed for being an illegally practicing Catholic, she discovers treason wasn't the only secret he's been hiding: he was also involved in a … Continue reading Mini Review Monday: The Long Title Edition
Mini Review Monday: Mask of Shadows and The Tomb
Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller Series: Mask of Shadows #1 Published by: Sourcebooks Fire Pub Date: August 29, 2017 Pages: 352 Format: e-arc | Source: NetGalley Genres: young adult, fantasy Rating: I Needed to Win. They Needed to Die. Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life … Continue reading Mini Review Monday: Mask of Shadows and The Tomb
Review: Ash Princess
Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian Series: Ash Princess Trilogy #1 Published by: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pub Date: April 24, 2018 Pages: 432 Format: arc | Source: publisher Genres: young adult, fantasy Rating: Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Queen of Flame and Fury, was murdered before her eyes. Ten years later, Theo has learned to … Continue reading Review: Ash Princess
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