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{Review} Winter’s Child – A Retelling of the Snow Queen

Posted February 20, 2016 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

{Review} Winter’s Child – A Retelling of the Snow QueenWinter's Child by Cameron Dokey
Series: Once Upon A Time
Publisher: Simon Pulse (2009)
Paperback (173 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Sunlight and Shadow, Wild Orchid
Also in this series: Snow, Water Song, Sunlight and Shadow
Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books, 2016 Re-Reading, 2016 Retelling Challenge, 2016 Royal Challenge, Read 2016

Synopsis

Free-spirited Grace and serious Kai are the best of friends. They grew up together listening to magical tales spun by Kai's grandmother and sharing in each other's secrets. But when they turn sixteen and Kai declares his love for Grace, everything changes. Grace yearns for freedom and slowly begins to push Kai - and their friendship - away.
Dejected Kai dreams of a dazzling Snow Queen, who entices him to leave home and wander to faraway lands. When Grace discovers Kai is gone, she learns how much she has lost and sets out on a mystical journey to find Kai...and discover herself.

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{Review} The Battle of the Labyrinth – Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson Head Underground

Posted February 18, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} The Battle of the Labyrinth – Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson Head UndergroundThe Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4
Publisher: Disney Hyperion (2008)
Paperback (361 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse
Also in this series: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse
Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books, 2016 Retelling Challenge, 2016 Royal Challenge, Read 2016

Synopsis

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.
In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth - a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.

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{Review} Princess in the Spotlight – Mia’s Problems and Obsession with Boyfriends

Posted February 15, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Princess in the Spotlight – Mia’s Problems and Obsession with BoyfriendsPrincess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot
Series: The Princess Diaries #2
Publisher: Listening Library (2001)
Audiobook
{4 hours and 47 minutes} (257 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Victoria and the Rogue, The Princess Diaries
Also in this series: The Princess Diaries
Reading Challenges: 2016 Backlist Books, 2016 Re-Reading, 2016 Royal Challenge, Read 2016

Synopsis

No one ever said being a princess was easy.
Just when Mia thought she had the whole princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast. First there's an unexpected announcement from her mother. Then Grandmère arranges a national primetime interview for the brand-new crown princess of Genovia. On top of that, intriguing, exasperating letters from a secret admirer begin to arrive.
Before she even has the chance to wonder who those letters are from, Mia is swept up in a whirlwind of royal intrigue the likes of which hasn't been seen since volume I of The Princess Diaries.

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{Review} Miriam – The Plagues, the Exodus from Egypt, and My Three Favorite Characters

Posted February 13, 2016 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Miriam – The Plagues, the Exodus from Egypt, and My Three Favorite CharactersMiriam by Mesu Andrews
Series: Treasures of the Nile #2
Publisher: WaterBrook Press (2016 - March 15)
Paperback ARC (369 pages)
Via: Blogging for Books
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Also by this author: The Pharaoh's Daughter, Isaiah's Daughter, Isaiah's Legacy
Also in this series: The Pharaoh's Daughter
Reading Challenges: 2016 Royal Challenge, Read 2016

Synopsis

The Hebrews call me prophetess, the Egyptians a seer. But I am neither. I am simply a watcher of Israel and the messenger of El Shaddai. When He speaks to me in dreams, I interpret. When He whispers a melody, I sing.
At eighty-six, Miriam had devoted her entire life to loving El Shaddai and serving His people as both midwife and messenger. Yet when her brother Moses returns to Egypt from exile, he brings a disruptive message. God has a new name – Yahweh – and has declared a radical deliverance for the Israelites.
Miriam and her beloved family face an impossible choice: cling to familiar bondage or embrace uncharted freedom at an unimaginable cost. Even if the Hebrews survive the plagues set to turn the Nile to blood and unleash a maelstrom of frogs and locusts, can they weather the resulting fury of the Pharaoh?
Enter an exotic land where a cruel Pharaoh reigns, pagan priests wield black arts, and the Israelites cry out to a God they only think they understand.

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{Review} Not If I See You First – Uniquely Narrated by a Blind Character

Posted February 11, 2016 in Reading, Review / 4 Comments

{Review} Not If I See You First – Uniquely Narrated by a Blind CharacterNot If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom
Publisher: Poppy (2015)
Hardcover (310 pages)
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2016

Synopsis

The Rules:
Don’t deceive me. Ever. Especially using my blindness. Especially in public.
Don’t help me unless I ask. Otherwise you're just getting in my way or bothering me.
Don’t be weird. Seriously, other than having my eyes closed all the time, I’m just like you only smarter.
Parker Grant doesn’t need 20/20 vision to see right through you. That’s why she created the Rules: Don’t treat her any differently just because she’s blind, and never take advantage. There will be no second chances. Just ask Scott Kilpatrick, the boy who broke her heart.
When Scott suddenly reappears in her life after being gone for years, Parker knows there’s only one way to react—shun him so hard it hurts. She has enough on her mind already, like trying out for the track team (that’s right, her eyes don’t work but her legs still do), doling out tough-love advice to her painfully naive classmates, and giving herself gold stars for every day she hasn’t cried since her dad’s death three months ago. But avoiding her past quickly proves impossible, and the more Parker learns about what really happened—both with Scott, and her dad—the more she starts to question if things are always as they seem. Maybe, just maybe, some Rules are meant to be broken.
Combining a fiercely engaging voice with true heart, debut author Erid Lindstrom’s
Not If I See You First illuminates those blind spots that we all have in life, whether visually impaired or not.

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