Le Cirque du Rêves arrives without warning, its black and white tents blowing in the breeze. The sign on the gate reads, “Opens at nightfall, closes at dawn.” Visitors to this circus are treated to sights beyond their wildest imaginings: contortionists, illusionists, and impossible feats of engineering. But behind the scenes there is a battle…
Tag: fantasy
DNF: The Mists of Avalon
I’ve read pieces of modern interpretations of Le Morte d’Arthur and seen both the “Merlin” mini-series and “The Sword in the Stone” about six thousand times each, but my knowledge of the Arthurian legend is pretty weak. My sister-in-law loves the whole genre, though, and was kind enough to lend me her copy of Marion…
Thoughts on Bitterblue
For those of you who aren’t aware, I don’t very often review every book of a series, mainly because it’s too hard to do so without slinging spoilers left and right. And in the case of Bitterblue, the third book in Kristin Cashore’s Graceling Realm series, one has to be careful about revealing spoilers from…
Review: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Cimorene is a princess, but she’s anything but proper. She’s sick of embroidery, fairy godmothers, and that infernal thing known as “tradition.” So when she has the chance to run away and become a dragon’s princess—a respectable situation for a princess, if not the traditional way of ending up there—she takes it. Living with dragons,…
Review: Redwall
It is the Summer of the Late Rose, and every citizen of Mossflower is celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the Abbot of Redwall. The abbey and its surrounding wood has known only peace for centuries, since the great mouse Martin the Warrior lay down his sword. But as the Golden Jubilee celebrations begin, something…someone terrible…