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Book Review: Games Wizards Play

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Games Wizards Play by Diane Duane

Games Wizards Play (Young Wizards, #10)
by Diane Duane 

4 out of 5 stars

Kit and Nita are invited to be mentors to a young wizard presenting a new spell design at the Wizards Invitational Competition. But their mentee, Penn, is a flamboyant jerk and they find it difficult to be patient with him.
Dairine is mentoring a shy Indian wizard, Mehrnaz, who has a brilliant design for a spell to stop earthquakes, but Mehrnaz has very low self-esteem due to her overbearing family. Dairine encourages her to have self-confidence, but Dairine is distracted with her own problems trying to locate her missing friend, Roshaun.

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Book Review: Reignited

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Reignited by Colleen Houck

Reignited (Reawakened, #0.5)
by Colleen Houck

The Egyptian gods have many rules that bind their powers, but the most important one is that none of the gods are allowed to marry each other, because any resulting child would drain the magic from the cosmos. And yet, Isis and Osiris fall in love with such a passion that they are willing to rewrite the stars to create a way to be together. Seth, the evil god of chaos, desires Isis for himself, and as he gradually gains more power, he tests his ability to unmake even a god.

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Book Review: Bella at Midnight

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Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley

Bella at Midnight
by Diane Stanley, Bagram Ibatoulline (Illustrator)

4 out of 5 stars

Bella has grown up with a poor but kind family, befriending the young prince Julian who visits his old nanny. When Bella discovers that she is actually the daughter of a nobleman, she is sent to live with her cold and haughty father and his new wife. Bella is torn from all her former friends, including her childhood friend, the prince. Three years later, a terrible plot against the kingdom forces Bella to seek out Prince Julian once more, hoping to avert a disastrous war.

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Book Review: The Princess and the Bear

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The Princess and the Bear by Mette Ivie Harrison

The Princess and the Bear (Hound Saga #2)
by Mette Ivie Harrison

Chala is a hound who was magically turned into a human princess for a time. Now back in her hound form, she befriends Richon, a human prince who is under a curse as a bear. As a hound and bear, they survive together in the wild forest, until they see evidence of a terrible “unmagic” spreading through the land, sucking the life out of all animals and plants it encounters. They must go back in time in human form to fight against the unmagic in the past before it can gain strength.

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Book Review: Recreated (Reawakened #2)

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Recreated by Colleen Houck

Recreated (Reawakened, #2)
by Colleen Houck (Goodreads Author)

4 out of 5 stars

In this second book of the series, Lily must venture into the underworld to save her beloved Amon. She begs the ancient gods to help her, knowing they will use her strength for their own purposes to keep the god of chaos at bay. But Lily is willing to sacrifice anything to help Amon, even her own sanity.

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Book Review: Reawakened

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Reawakened by Colleen Houck

Reawakened (Reawakened, #1)
by  Colleen Houck 

Lily is swept away in an adventure when she meets an ancient Egyptian prince, Amon, who has slumbered for a thousand years. His life energy is very weak, so he must rely on Lily to survive. They are magically bonded so that he can siphon a little of her energy and stay alive long enough to find his two brothers and resurrect them. They are in a race against time to complete an ancient ceremony before the evil god Seth can wreak chaos on the world.

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Book Review: Princess of the Midnight Ball

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Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

Princess of the Midnight Ball (The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy, #1)
by  Jessica Day George

Galen comes home from the war and gets a job as gardener in the royal palace gardens. There he meets the twelve princesses and hears rumors that they wear out their dancing slippers every third night. Noble princes come and go, each trying to solve the mystery, but they all fail. The king agrees to give Galen special permission to investigate the mystery, and Galen discovers that the princesses are held under a strong enchantment, forced to dance for the King Under Stone and his twelve sons.

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Book Review: The Perilous Gard

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The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

The Perilous Gard
by Elizabeth Marie Pope

5 out of 5 stars

Kate Sutton is banished from the Queen’s court and forced into house-arrest at a remote castle with Sir Geoffrey Heron as her guardian. There Kate hears wild rumors about fairy folk and dark magic in the forest and caves surrounding the castle. There is a holy well that seems to grant healing and good fortune to those who drop money into it, but a child was lost down the well and Sir Geoffrey and his brother Christopher warn Kate to stay away from the area. Despite their warnings, Kate begins to suspect that something evil is lurking about the castle and she starts to ask questions about the mysterious fairy folk. She learns of their terrible tradition to commit a human sacrifice in order to gather the power of a human life to sustain their spells.

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Book Review: Supernova

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Supernova by Marissa Meyer

Supernova (Renegades, #3)
by Marissa Meyer

3.5 out of 5 stars
Nova is a spy for the Anarchists. She has infiltrated the Renegade headquarters, pretending to be one of them so that she can plot against them. But Nova’s loyalties are divided as she finds herself more and more involved with Adrian, a young superhero whose two dads are the leaders of the Renegades. In this final book of the trilogy, Nova is starting to really feel the pressure of her double life as the violence in the city escalates. The Renegades definitely suspect her, and her secret identity is seriously compromised.

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Book Review: The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

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The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio by Lloyd Alexander

The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
by  Lloyd Alexander

3 out of 5 stars

Carlo finds an ancient map to a long-forgotten treasure and sets out on a journey into faraway lands to search for the fortune. Baksheesh offers to work as his servant and guide him from the coast into the inland city and beyond through the desert. They are also joined by Shira, a girl running away from slavers, trying to return to her home in the mountains. Their caravan is attacked by bandits, and they get lost in the desert. Carlo is mistaken for a foreign prince and held for ransom. Through all their adventures, Carlo wonders if the treasure is even real or worth all this trouble.

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