Peter Pan was quintessential in my childhood. I watched the Disney cartoon so many times that I was Peter Pan for Halloween in kindergarten. When the 2003 live-action movie came out, the "I do believe in fairies!" sequence just pumped my sisters and me up. I'd heard that, of all the retellings and unofficial sequels … Continue reading Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson →

I was sorely tempted to compare Playlist for the Dead to another famous story of teen suicide and its repercussions. Let’s see: a troubled teen kills themselves, check. They leave behind a series of technological files to cryptically explain something to the living, check. The people left behind have to piece together why the suicide … Continue reading Playlist for the Dead, by Michelle Falkoff →

With a lot of personal stuff going on recently, I’ve tried starting a few other books, but they just weren’t keeping my interest. So, I healed my rut by returning to Half-Price Books to sell my latest failure reads. It was there that I found Much Ado About You by Samantha Young. Just from that … Continue reading Much Ado About You, by Samantha Young →

I’ve developed a tentative relationship with the Disney Twisted Tales series. Because characters or authors do not connect these books, each book is so different that you really don’t know what you’re going to get. Although the previous entries I reviewed were not that great, I still held out hope that As Old as Time, … Continue reading As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale, by Liz Braswell →

I first read Water for Elephants during a period I can remember clearly. It was the summer of 2014, when I was floundering in the dark deciding what I was going to do about grad school. Caught in an ever-swirling maelstrom of expectations, uncertainty, and deadlines, the only thing I could hold firmly onto were … Continue reading Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen →

Cold Spell is not the first Jackson Pearce book I’ve reviewed on this blog. As a matter of fact, it is the final book in the series that began with Sisters Red, where Ms. Pearce retells fairy tales in modern times. This time around, she retells the story of The Snow Queen, the same story … Continue reading Cold Spell, by Jackson Pearce →

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 →