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Book Tour: The Dark Lord Clementine by Sarah Jean Horwitz

October 23, 2019 by motifink

Dastardly deeds aren’t exactly the first things that come to mind when one hears the name “Clementine,” but as the sole heir of the infamous Dark Lord Elithor, twelve-year-old Clementine Morcerous has been groomed since birth to be the best (worst?) Evil Overlord she can be. But everything changes the day the Dark Lord Elithor is cursed by a mysterious rival. Now, Clementine must not only search for a way to break the curse, but also take on the full […]

Categories: Algonquin Young Readers, Fantasy • Tags: Arc, book review, book tour, fantasy, magic, middle school readers, Sarah Jean Horwitz, The Dark Lord Clementine

Manga Review: Wonderland by Yugo Ishikawa

October 7, 2019 by motifink

Teenage girl Yukko awakens to find that she has shrunken in size–but this is no rabbit hole or fairy tale–this is real life! In a desperate and bloody struggle to stay alive, while fleeing giant predators and other twisted dangers, Yukko learns that she is not the only person who has turned tiny. Can she survive long enough to learn the truth behind her curious transformation?- Goodreads This is a Alice in Wonderland retelling. But it is no where near […]

Categories: Fantasy, Manga • Tags: alice in wonderland, book review, manga, Manga Monday, Manga Review, retelling, seven seas, wonderland, Yugo Ishikawa

Book Tour Book Review: The Gilded King by Josie Jaffrey

October 4, 2019 by motifink

In the Blue, the world’s last city, all is not well. Julia is stuck within its walls. She serves the nobility from a distance until she meets Lucas, a boy who believes in fairytales that Julia’s world can’t accommodate. The Blue is her prison, not her castle, and she’d escape into the trees if she didn’t know that contamination and death awaited humanity outside. But not everyone in the Blue is human, and not everyone can be contained. Beyond the […]

Categories: Fantasy, kindle, Paranormal, Young Adult • Tags: book review, book tour, Fantasty, Josie Jaffrey, kindle unlimited, Sovereign #1, The Gilded King, The Write Reads, vampires, young adult

Book Review: Whispers of Shadow & Flame by L. Penelope

October 2, 2019 by motifink

The Mantle that separates the kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar is about to fall. And life will drastically change for both kingdoms. Born with a deadly magic she cannot control, Kyara is forced to become an assassin. Known as the Poison Flame in the kingdom of Lagrimar, she is notorious and lethal, but secretly seeks freedom from both her untamed power and the blood spell that commands her. She is tasked with capturing the legendary rebel called the Shadowfox, but […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Pretty Covers • Tags: Arc, book review, fantasy, L. Penelope, New Adult, Whispers of Shadow & Flame, young adult

Book Review: Saving Fable by Scott Reintgen

September 20, 2019 by motifink

Indira has been a character-in-waiting her entire life. So she can’t believe her luck when she’s finally chosen to travel to Fable and study at the renowned Protagonist Preparatory, a school known for producing the best heroes. But Indira’s dreams of achieving hero status don’t exactly go as planned. A failed audition lands her in the school’s side-character track, and her best efforts to prove advisors–famous characters like Alice from Wonderland and Professor Darcy–wrong are constantly sabotaged. Indira is starting […]

Categories: Children, children's, Crown Books for Young Readers, Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review • Tags: Arc, book review, Crown Books for Young Readers, fantasy, middle school readers, NetGalley, Saving Fable, Scott Reintgen

Book Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

July 30, 2019 by motifink

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it—and accidentally frees the spirit of […]

Categories: Adult Ficiton, Fantasy, Mythology, NetGalley, NetGalley Review • Tags: Arc, book review, fantasy, Gods of Jade and Shadow, mythology, NetGalley, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Book Review: Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

July 24, 2019 by motifink

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. […]

Categories: Fantasy, Paranormal, Pretty Covers, Young Adult • Tags: book review, fantasy, Margaret K. McElderry Books, Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns, young adult

Book Review: Shadow Frost by Coco Ma

July 18, 2019 by motifink

When Asterin Faelenhart, Princess of Axaria and heir to the throne, discovers that she may hold the key to defeating the mysterious demon terrorizing her kingdom, she vows not to rest until the beast is slain. With the help of her friends and the powers she wields—though has yet to fully understand—Asterin sets out to complete a single task. The task that countless, trained soldiers have failed. To kill it. But as they hunt for the demon, they unearth a […]

Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, Coco Ma, fantasy, NetGalley, Shadow Frost, ya

Book Review: Changeling by William Ritter

July 10, 2019 by motifink

Magic is fading from the Wild Wood. To renew it, goblins must perform an ancient ritual involving the rarest of their kind—a newborn changeling. But when the fateful night arrives to trade a human baby for a goblin one, something goes terribly wrong. After laying the changeling in a human infant’s crib, the goblin Kull is briefly distracted from his task. By the time he turns back, the changeling has already perfectly mimicked the human child. Too perfectly: Kull cannot […]

Categories: Algonquin Young Readers, Children, children's, Fantasy • Tags: Algonquin Young Readers, Arc, Changeling, fantasy, middler schoolers, NetGalley, The Oddmire #1, William Ritter

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