by motifink
If you are a new follower, I do a cover love post throughout the year. Here I display different books that will be released between 1-3 months. You can check out January here and June here. Which are your favorites? And what books coming out this year that I should be looking for?
Categories: Young Adult • Tags: Adult Fiction, cover love, fantasy, graphic novel, magic, pretty covers, retellings, young adult
by motifink
All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family’s inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns. But when her sister Käthe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm […]
Categories: Fantasy, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Romance, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, fantasy, NetGalley, retellings, S. Jae-Jones, Thomas Dunne Books, Wintersong, ya
by motifink
Categories: Adult Ficiton, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Pretty Covers, what tanya wants • Tags: adult, Diversity, fantasy, glbt, harry potter, historical fiction, manga, new book releases, retellings, what tanya wants, ya
by motifink
Categories: Adult Ficiton, Manga, Mythology, Pretty Covers, Retellings, Romance, what tanya wants, Young Adult • Tags: adult, ebooks, fantasy, fiction, Friend Request, kindle, manga, mystery, new release, Queen's Quality, retellings, September 2017, The Dollmarker of Krakow, ya
by motifink
This is the third novel to the Villains series staring Ursula and her perspective from the Little Mermaid. I love reading the viewpoint of the villain. It makes them human to me. But in this particular story, there wasn’t enough for me to have an opinion about Ursula, other than the girl is evil. There wasn’t enough detail into Ursula. The book showed a little bit of her past. I would say about 10 pages total and everything else focused […]
Categories: Magic, Retellings, Young Adult • Tags: (Villains), A Tale of the Sea Witch, book review, disney, fairy tales, fantasy, Poor Unfortunate Soul, retellings, serena valentino, Ursula
by motifink
Rhea is a miller’s daughter set to marry a high-ranking man she has never met. Although uncommon, what is mysterious is the man himself. With a house full of women and unknown magical powers, Rhea has no idea what her soon to be husband is up to. *Short Review* This book had gotten a high rating on Goodreads, so when I saw it on NetGalley I had to request it. The summary it self didn’t really draw me but I […]
Categories: Fantasy, Magic, NetGalley, NetGalley Review, Retellings, Young Adult • Tags: Arc, book review, fantasy, magic, NetGalley Review, retellings, T. Kingfisher, The Seventh Bride, young adult
by motifink
George Duncan is a lonely 48 year old divorced American living in London and owns a small print shop. One night a Crane appears in his backyard with an arrow in its wing. Capture by its beauty, George takes the arrow out ultimately saving the Crane’s life and watches it fly away. The next day he meets the most beautiful woman he has ever met named Kumiko, who asks George to help her with her artwork. Dumbfounded he agrees and […]
Categories: Adult Ficiton, Retellings • Tags: book review, Japanese folklore, patrick ness, retellings, The Crane Wife
by motifink
Ever After High is an enchanted high school in which students are trained to take over the stories their parents were once in such as Snow White, Cinderella, Evil Queen, etc. There is little choice for these students; so each year they have to sign their name in the Storybook of Legends and begin living the life they are trained to live. Raven is destined to be the Evil Queen in the Snow White story but Raven isn’t nor doesn’t […]
Categories: Children, Retellings • Tags: book review, Ever after high, fairy tale, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, middle school, retellings, shannon hale, the storybook of legends
