I
loved The Once and Future King, so I was drawn to this book by the title. I loved
the three sisters, who are the main protagonists immediately (even though they
can be a bit prickly).
Reading their three storylines and waiting to see how
they would converge was enjoyable. Juniper reminds me of Granny Weatherwax from
Terry Pratchett’s books. Harrow gives us a feminist adventure story full of
magic, and I’m here for every page of it.
'Glorious . . . a tale that will sweep you away' Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger
'A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women' Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Strange the Dreamer
In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.
I
only picked up this book because I was trying to read all of the Hugo Award
nominees. I didn’t expect much since it’s such a short read. I was pleasantly
surprised once I started reading.
It reads like a dark fairy tale, reminiscent
of the original Brothers Grimm. Our heroine is given three impossible tasks and, through stubborn determination, begins to make her way through them.
What I
liked about this fairy tale is that the princess didn’t wait to be saved by
anyone. She didn’t even want to marry a prince. Instead, she does her best to
kill one.
An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022 An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022 A Goodreads Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee
From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure.
*A very special hardcover edition, featuring gold foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*
This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince. It's the one where she kills him.
Patricia Smith gathered a
collection of antique portraits of African Americans, most from the years near
the end of the Civil War and during Reconstruction. She gives those frozen
subjects a voice and a story to give readers a piece of imagined history.
Her
word choices give the poems a beautiful sound. The first poem of the collection
was a personal favorite, and I expect I will read these poems many more times
just to revisit them.
An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century
Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed a collection of rare nineteenth-century photographs of Black men, women, and children who, in these pages, regard us from the staggering distance of time.
Unshuttered is a vessel for the voices of their incendiary and critical era. Smith's searing stanzas and revelatory language imbue the subjects of the photos with dynamism and revived urgency while she explores how her own past of triumphs and losses is linked inextricably to their long-ago lives:
An ancient parasite thaws from the permafrost, infecting its human hosts and reducing them to mindless husks, attacking any living creature to create new parasitic hosts.
The remnants of humanity flee to the coldest regions of the Earth, where they build walls to protect themselves from the wandering infected—the husks.
Armed with her father's shamanic drum, Bree settles in Tomsk, the largest city in Siberia, where she uses the beats of the drum to draw these husks to her; the steady beats mirroring the heartbeats of their hosts.
Arrested by the city's patrol guards, she and her neighbour, Tyler, who is working on a cure, must convince the council that his serum can neutralise the parasites, eradicating the threat on humanity.
But the council isn't ready to listen.
It's one of my favorite books because it incorporates multiple figures from history, and some of the figures are very cool. And Blackbeard somehow even seemed to be better than anticipated. That's why I liked this story. This story had a lot of action and ended up being a great read.
"Magnificent."-Kirkus Reviews, STARRED Review Story Thieves meets Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library in this wacky, hilarious, and fast-paced middle-grade series starter, with the perfect combination of magic, imagination, and adventure. Javi Santiago is trying his best not to fail sixth grade. So, when the annual "invite any three people to dinner" homework assignment rolls around, Javi enlists his best friend, Wiki, and his sister, Brady, to help him knock it out of the park. But the dinner party is a lot more than they bargained for. The family's mysterious antique table actually brings the historical guests to the meal...and Blackbeard…
This was a great book because it incorporated lots of fictional characters. These characters made the story really great and entertaining. It modified the storyline of the first book by adding new landmarks to the town and changing the inside and outside of the school. And it added new rooms and new people.
"Magnificent." -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED Review on Time Villains
Story Thieves meets Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library in the second book of this wacky, hilarious, and fast-paced middle-grade series. Can Javi and his friends stop Count Dracula from taking over the school?
With Blackbeard banished from their present time, life has gone somewhat back to normal for Javi, his sister Brady, and his best friend Wiki. And Javi can now focus on his favorite thing in the world: crafting extreme sandwiches. Except their beloved Principal Gale has to make an unexpected trip back to Oz, leaving the excessively strict and downright…
