Nothing about Karou is normal — from the top of her blue-haired head to her tattoos and fantastic sketches of monsters that may or may not be real. Her friends wonder at her imagination, but the truth is it’s all truth. Issa and Brimstone, baby teeth and wishes and locked doors. A child raised by…
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Review: A Breath of Eyre
Life is not easy for Emma. She feels out of place at the exclusive prep school she attends, there’s a boy she can’t decide whether or not she likes (or if he likes her), and her stepmother doesn’t come close to filling the void left by her mother’s death. The only time Emma’s life feels…
Review: Seraphina
The peace between the dragons and humans of Goredd, however tenuous, has lasted for almost 40 years. Major conflicts have ceased, and the dragons lend their rational and mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. But with the anniversary of the treaty fast approaching, the tension is palpable. Into this looming danger enters Seraphina,…
Review: Grave Mercy
Ismae is a daughter of Mortain, one of death’s handmaidens trained since childhood to visit retribution on those her father has marked as traitors. And since it’s England in 1485, business is booming. But when Ismae is sent to the high court of Brittany to spy on Gavriel Duval, she is surprised to discover that…
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,…