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{Review} The Selection Stories – The Prince & The Guard

Posted November 2, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} The Selection Stories – The Prince & The GuardThe Selection Stores: The Prince & The Guard by Kiera Cass
Series: The Selection #1.5
Publisher: HarperTeen (2014)
Audiobook
{4 hours and 35 minutes} (227 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: The Elite, The One, The Heir
Also in this series: The Elite, The One, The Heir
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Two novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass’s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series are now available in print for the first time.
The Prince and The Guard both offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer’s love.
Before America arrived at the palace to compete in the Selection, there was another girl in Prince Maxon’s life. The Prince opens the week before the Selection begins and follows Maxon through the first day of the competition.
Raised as a Six, Aspen Leger never dreamed that he would find himself living in the palace as a member of the royal guard. In The Guard, readers get an inside look at Aspen’s life within the palace walls—and the truth about a guard’s world that America will never know.

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{Review} A Thousand Nights – Demons, Smallgods and Storytelling

Posted October 1, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} A Thousand Nights – Demons, Smallgods and StorytellingA Thousand Nights by E K Johnston
Publisher: Disney Hyperion (2015)
eARC (336 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling, Read 2015

Synopsis

Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next.
And so she is taken in her sister’s place, and she believes death will soon follow. Lo-Melkhiin’s court is a dangerous palace filled with pretty things: intricate statues with wretched eyes, exquisite threads to weave the most beautiful garments. She sees everything as if for the last time.But the first sun rises and sets, and she is not dead. Night after night, Lo-Melkhiin comes to her and listens to the stories she tells, and day after day she is awoken by the sunrise. Exploring the palace, she begins to unlock years of fear that have tormented and silenced a kingdom. Lo-Melkhiin was not always a cruel ruler. Something went wrong.
Far away, in their village, her sister is mourning. Through her pain, she calls upon the desert winds, conjuring a subtle unseen magic, and something besides death stirs the air.
Back at the palace, the words she speaks to Lo-Melkhiin every night are given a strange life of their own. Little things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. With each tale she spins, her power grows. Soon she dreams of bigger, more terrible magic: power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to the rule of a monster.

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Review: A Whole New World – A Retelling of Aladdin

Posted August 31, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

Review: A Whole New World – A Retelling of AladdinA Whole New World by Liz Braswell
Series: Twisted Tales #1
Publisher: Disney Press (2015)
eARC (336 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Also by this author: Once Upon A Dream
Also in this series: Once Upon A Dream
Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling, Read 2015

Synopsis

This dark and daring version of Aladdin twists the original story with the question: What if Jafar was the first one to summon the Genie?
When Jafar steals the Genie’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish.To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed Princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war.
What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. A princess becomes a revolutionary. And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again.

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Review: Spelled – Sarcastic Emerald Princess and a Chimera

Posted June 1, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Spelled – Sarcastic Emerald Princess and a ChimeraSpelled by Betsy Schow
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire (2015)
eARC (352 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling, Read 2015

Synopsis

Fairy Tale Survival Rule #32: If you find yourself at the mercy of a wicked witch, sing a romantic ballad and wait for your Prince Charming to save the day.
Yeah, no thanks. Dorthea is completely princed out. Sure being the crown princess of Emerald has its perks—like Glenda Original ball gowns and Hans Christian Louboutin heels. But a forced marriage to the brooding prince Kato is so not what Dorthea had in mind for her enchanted future.
Talk about unhappily ever after.
Trying to fix her prince problem by wishing on a (cursed) star royally backfires, leaving the kingdom in chaos and her parents stuck in some place called “Kansas.” Now it’s up to Dorthea and her pixed off prince to find the mysterious Wizard of Oz and undo the curse…before it releases the wickedest witch of all and spells The End for the world of Story.

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Review: Unhinged & Ensnared – A Bit Dissapointing

Posted April 8, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Unhinged & Ensnared – A Bit DissapointingUnhinged by A G Howard
Series: Splintered #2
Publisher: Amulet Books (2013)
eBook (387 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Splintered
Also in this series: Splintered
Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling, 2015 Finishing the Series, Read 2015

Synopsis

Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly seductive Morpheus and the vindictive Queen Red. Now all she has to do is graduate high school and make it through prom so she can attend the prestigious art school in London she’s always dreamed of.
That would be easier without her mother, freshly released from an asylum, acting overly protective and suspicious. And it would be much simpler if the mysterious Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland—where she (partly) belongs.
As prom and graduation creep closer, Alyssa juggles Morpheus’s unsettling presence in her real world with trying to tell Jeb the truth about a past he’s forgotten. Glimpses of Wonderland start to bleed through her art and into her world in very disturbing ways, and Morpheus warns that Queen Red won’t be far behind.
If Alyssa stays in the human realm, she could endanger Jeb, her parents, and everyone she loves. But if she steps through the rabbit hole again, she’ll face a deadly battle that could cost more than just her head.

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