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Book Review: Entwined

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Entwined
Entwined by Heather Dixon

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Oh my goodness, I love this book so much! Based on the cover, I thought it was going to be this sweety cutesy teen romance, but it was so much more and had so many levels to the story. Blew me away! Plus, I always love fairytale retellings, and this one is the ‘Twelve Dancing Princesses’.

Azalea is the eldest of the princesses, who have just lost their mother. Since their grieving father is so distant and cold, the girls turn to dancing to remind them of their mother and comfort them in their grief. But the strict rules of Mourning won’t allow dancing, and the girls have to search the castle for a secret place to dance. Continue reading →

Book Review: Juliet Dove, Queen of Love

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Juliet Dove, Queen of Love
Juliet Dove, Queen of Love by Bruce Coville

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I listened to this on audiobook, and I think that really made a difference to the story, hearing an entire cast of characters reading the dialogue. There was so much acting and expression put into every sentence that it made the story really come alive!

This is the tale of Juliet, who is a shy young teen with a literary and artistic family. When a mysterious woman gives her an enchanted amulet, every boy in town starts to fall in love with her. It’s up to Juliet and her new rodent friends from the Magic Shop to unravel the mystery of the amulet, and get Juliet out of the ancient love story she is doomed to relive.

First of all, I love stories that bring in the old Greek gods into modern settings (because of Percy Jackson). Secondly, I love stories with wise-cracking rats or mice. And thirdly, I love stories with strong family relationships with both a mother and father present and involved and actually parenting (instead of dead, divorced, or absent). Continue reading →

Princess Bride Book Tag

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Book Review: The Wise Man’s Fear

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The Wise Man's Fear
The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view- a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man’s Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time. – GoodReads

There are no words to describe my experience with this book. There were parts that I hated, but there were far many more parts that I fell in love with! The writing is so brilliant that I forgot that it was writing. The story is so engrossing that I forgot it was only a story. The characters are so near to my heart that I forgot they are just characters. It became real for me, and that is probably why I hated and loved it and was fascinated with every page. Every word in each sentence spoke to me in some way, whether good or bad, pleasant or upsetting. Continue reading →

Five Favorite Wizards

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Fantastic February Reading

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These are the 16 books I read in February! Please please leave a comment, and let’s talk about these books! Have you read any of these?

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Ann Radcliffe
So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
The Boys’ Book of How to be the Best at Everything
Pollyanna’s Castle in Mexico by Elizabeth Borton
The Mad Scientists’ Club by Bertrand R. Brinley
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
Death of a Glutton by M.C. Beaton
The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan
The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
When I Crossed No-Bob by Margaret McMullan
The Littles Take a Trip by John Lawrence
Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy
Dead Men Tell No Tales by E.W. Hornung
Selkie Girl by Laurie Brooks