Genre: Fantasy

Mini Reviews! The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Graveyard Book, & Anne of Green Gables

Time for another round of mini reviews! The following three books are all books I’ve read before and have reviewed before on the blog, but they’re still good books and deserve a little time in the spotlight. These reviews are short and sweet, with a handful thoughts and impressions but nothing too deep. So, these are a little more spread out than the last time I did a mini review bundle. Both The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The Graveyard Book were actually read in October. I’ve been putting the bits about the books I’m reading in this post as I read […]

Posted December 24, 2019 in Reviews // 2 Comments //

Ever by Gail Carson Levine

This book was deliciously unexpected. I’ve had mixed experience with Gail Carson Levine – growing up, I remembered reading Ella Enchanted and disliking it (although an adult reread inspired me to reform my opinion) and as such, I didn’t really seek out her books the way may others did. Somehow, I never put together that one of my childhood favorites – The Two Princesses of Bamarre – was also written by her. So by all rights, Ever is a book I should have read many years ago, because I would have loved it. And as an adult, I did love it. The writing […]

Posted December 16, 2019 in Reviews // 2 Comments //

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Watership Down is one of those books that was required reading in high school, and thus has a bit of stigma attached to it for that reason alone. I’ve been thinking about rereading it for a time – for me, this was Freshman English in 2003, half my lifetime ago! I didn’t remember much about it other than a lot of discussions about allegory and metaphors, and Richard Adam’s supposed conversations about politics and society within the rabbit communities. All that made me chuckle, because re-reading it, it opened with a note from Adams about how Watership Down came about, and […]

Posted December 13, 2019 in Reviews // 2 Comments //

Antigoddess by Kendare Blake

I had a lot of hopes for this book, especially with the way it started out. I really liked the atmosphere at the beginning, and I remember feeling similarly about Anna Dressed in Blood at the beginning as well, but like her other novel, Antigoddess is a lot of conversation and cheesy love story, and less excellent aesthetics. The beginning, like I said, is great. We start in a desert with Athena and Hermes, searching for Demeter. We know that the gods are dying, each in their own way. It’s creative and the atmosphere is spot on. It’s slow moving, […]

Posted December 12, 2019 in Reviews // 2 Comments //

Half Bad by Sally Green

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Half Bad and Sally Green’s writing in general, but if I’m being perfectly honest, this novel was a bit of a struggle for me. The world she was building, and Nathan’s story itself – all that was fine and lovely and well built and fascinating. It’s not the story I struggle with, but the speed of the story. The format of this story is steady, but slow. It started well, in the. Idle of Nathan’s captivity, but then we go full stop and rewind to Nathan’s early childhood and work our […]

Posted December 10, 2019 in Reviews // 0 Comments //

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Starless Sea was a book worth waiting for. The beautiful worldbuilding made me fall in love with The Night Circus despite the slow pacing because it was a world I wanted to be pulled into, to exist within the book’s pages because it is a beautiful place, if somewhat tragic at times. The Starless Sea has that same magical aesthetic. Even after having read it, I feel as though there are so many mor doors to open, so many more paths to walk. It is ripe for a retread, because the Harbor is not a place that can […]

Posted December 9, 2019 in Reviews // 2 Comments //