And here we are: the last stretch of Princess Tania’s journey through Faerie in The Charmed Return, the sixth book in the Faerie Path series. As I said before, I’ve pretty much been waiting ten years to find out how this story ended. And since I began this series when I was fourteen, it’s been … Continue reading The Charmed Return (The Faerie Path #6), by Frewin Jones →

I only remembered one thing about the second-to-last book in the Faerie Path series, The Enchanted Quest: the ending. Everything else was a total blur before this re-read. I can kind of, sort of see why. With the plague continuing to devastate Faerie, Tania has to make another quest: this time to the ends of … Continue reading The Enchanted Quest (The Faerie Path #5), by Frewin Jones →

Some books predict what the future might be, and we muse over what that reality would be like. I remember reading The Immortal Realm, the fourth book in the Faerie Path series about ten years ago, and musing over what would happen if a plague spread across the world and there was a race to … Continue reading The Immortal Realm (The Faerie Path #4), by Frewin Jones →

Tania’s adventures in the realm of Faerie continue with The Sorcerer King (or The Seventh Daughter in some countries), the third installment in the Faerie Path series. I was actually pretty excited to reread this one, because I remember exactly where I was when I read this book’s climax the first time. I was at … Continue reading The Sorcerer King (The Faerie Path #3), by Frewin Jones →

You all know about my love of Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and how disappointed I was with the Disney Twisted Tale rendition of the Evil Queen’s story. At the end of that review, however, I did mention a saving grace in Disney villain lore: Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked … Continue reading Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, by Serena Valentino →

I probably would have LOVED Princess of Thorns back when fairy tale retellings required two things: gore and romance. Well, all right, they kind of still do, but I’m just saying that, back when this formula was still kind of fresh, I would have sung its praises till day’s end. But now that that formula … Continue reading Princess of Thorns, by Stacey Jay →

Two years ago, I reviewed Frewin Jones’ The Faerie Path, returning to a world I visited in my teenage years many times. But if I’ve cracked the spine of that book several, several times, I’ve only peeked into the rest of the series once. I did, however, look at the sequel, The Lost Queen, a … Continue reading The Lost Queen (The Faerie Path #2), by Frewin Jones →

Fun fact about me: in high school, I was the book reporter for our school newspaper. I mostly wrote about fantasy books that weren’t always trending on the market, and I’m pretty sure no student took me at my word, but I still enjoyed seeing my reviews printed in black and white. I suppose you … Continue reading The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey, by Lisa Papademetriou →

Although the holiday season has softened my anxiety to an extent, that does not mean that I do not go back every so often to enjoy a nostalgic book. Especially if it was a book that harkens back to my high school years, and I could read in two days. And I know I love … Continue reading If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? →

The Disney Twisted Tales series has been a mixed bag so far. So This is Love pretty much hit it out of the park, and Mirror, Mirror was abysmal for what I was hoping for. And now we have a third volume, Once Upon a Dream, featuring the characters from Sleeping Beauty. Right up front, … Continue reading Once Upon a Dream: A Twisted Tale, by Liz Braswell →