What Tanya Wants: October 2018
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Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: african american authors, fantasy, new book releases, sleepy hollow, Someday, training school for negro girls
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The Minis
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These Precious Scars by Emily Suvada is the background information you didn’t know you needed until you read it. Listed as the 0.5 to the This Mortal Coil series it provides a quick story about how the kids came to be who we know and love. Does it add to the overall story? Not really. But it fills the time; not only the “I need a quick read in between reads” but the time in between books. Because This Cruel […]
Categories: Adult Ficiton, Minis, Pretty Covers, Young Adult • Tags: A Curious Tale of the In-Between, adult, Capture, City of Ghosts, fantasy, historical fiction, middle schoolers, paranormal, pretty covers, The Legacy, Those precious scars, ya
Book Review: Kill the Queen (Crown of Shards #1) by Jennifer Estep
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In a realm where one’s magical power determines one’s worth, Lady Everleigh’s lack of obvious ability relegates her to the shadows of the royal court of Bellona, a kingdom steeped in gladiator tradition. Seventeenth in line for the throne, Evie is nothing more than a ceremonial fixture, overlooked and mostly forgotten. But dark forces are at work inside the palace. When her cousin Vasilia, the crown princess, assassinates her mother the queen and takes the throne by force, Evie is […]
Categories: Adult Ficiton, Fantasy, Harper Voyager • Tags: adult, Arc, book review, book tour, Crown of Shards #1, fantasy, Harper Voyager, Jennifer Estep, Kill the Queen
Book Review: A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney
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The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she’s trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn’t always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But when Alice’s handsome and mysterious mentor […]
Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Retellings, Young Adult • Tags: african american author, alice in wonderland, Arc, book review, fantasy, Imprint, NetGalley Review, retelling, young adult
Book Review: The Golden Fountain by Zuheb Alep
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The Golden Fountain is the story of a twelve-year old Benjamin, a rebellious boy whose fierce desire to become a leader is threatened by the children disappearing around his city. The citizens of the city has long suffered their children’s disappearance, but the fact that they were never discovered leads Benjamin to finally decide one thing; he would creep on-board a ship carrying eight thousands soldiers to rescue them around the world. This story is set parallel in a world […]
Categories: Children, children's, NetGalley, NetGalley Review • Tags: Arc, book review, fantasy, The Golden Fountain, Troubador Publishing Ltd, Zuheb Alep
The List© Fantasy Edition
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POC protagonist are on a rise but it isn’t exactly in the most original way. Almost all best selling books by a POC involves timeliness and a struggle within the Black community or Latin, Indian or Asian community. This is not to say that the books that are getting attention are not amazing and need (looking at THUG (tbr) ) because they are. It just takes the light off other stories that are important to tell. Like Caribbean mythologies or […]
Categories: Adult Ficiton, Fantasy, Young Adult • Tags: african american authors, fantasy, mythology, the list
Quick Five© Roshani Chokshi Star-Touched Stories Blog Tour Edition
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Name: Roshani Chokshi Twitter: @Roshani_Chokshi Website: http://www.roshanichokshi.com Genre: Fantasy Books: The Star-Touched Queen series, The Glided Wolves, The Star-Touched Stories, Where to Buy: Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, and other online and brick and mortar stores I have had the pleasure of participating in the Blog Tour for Roshani Chokshi new collection of short stories: Star-Touched Stories. The Star-Touched Stories are part of the world of the Star-Touched Queen universe, so you do not need to read the original series, to get into these short stories. However, […]
Categories: blog tour, Quick Five • Tags: fantasy, interview, quick five, Roshani Chokshi, short stories, Star-Touched Stories, the star-touched queen, ya
What Tanya Wants: July 2018
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Categories: Adult Ficiton, Children, Pretty Covers, Thriller, what tanya wants, Young Adult • Tags: Adult Fiction, fantasy, July wants, Little Mermaid, magic, romance, science fiction, thriller, what tanya wants, ya
