It’s always been Elodie’s dream to travel to Two Castles and become a mansioner (actress). But when the master of the troupe turns her away, Elodie is left destitute. The dragon Meenore takes her in, then promptly sends her on dangerous mission inside an ogre’s castle. Disguised as a kitchen maid, Elodie must navigate her…
Category: Reading Challenge
Review: The Girl is Murder
It’s the fall of 1942 in New York City, and Iris Anderson’s life is falling apart. Her Pop has uprooted them from their comfortable place on the Upper East Side to a shabby building on the Lower East Side. And worse still, Iris has to attend public school for the first time in her life….
Review: The Things They Carried
(I read this book as part of the Reading Out of the Box Challenge. This book was in the Another Voice category, in which I read a book written from a different perspective than I normally read.) The Things They Carried is a (potentially?) partially autobiographical work by Tim O’Brien. It reads almost as a…
Review: Eon
For Eon, failure is not an option. His livelihood, and that of his master, depends on Eon’s ability to be chosen as a Dragoneye, an apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons. Being chosen means great prestige; being rejected could mean death. For Eon is actually Eona. Women are forbidden to practice Dragon Magic…
Review: The Descendants
(I read this book as part of the Reading Out of the Box Challenge. This book was in the To the Screen category, in which I read a book that’s been adapted into a film.) The Descendants is told from the perspective of Matthew King, a lawyer in Hawaii who is trying to keep himself…