Tag: Fairytale Retelling Challenge

Review: Scarlet

Posted March 4, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #2
Publisher: Square Fish (2013)
Paperback (454 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Cinder, Cress, Fairest
Also in this series: Cinder, Cress, Fairest
Reading Challenges: 2015 Color Coded, 2015 Fairytale Retelling, 2015 What's In A Name?, Read 2015

Synopsis

Cinder is back and trying to break out of prison—even though she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive if she does—in this second installment from Marissa Meyer.
Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother, or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana.

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Tagged as 5 star, Color Coded Challenge, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Read 2015, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge

February 2015 in Review

Posted February 28, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 2 Comments

It is so hard to believe it is the end of February already. This has been a crazy month.

Things that Happened in February

Lent started with Ash Wednesday the beginning of the month.
I got the nasty cold thing going around the school. I have to remember to thank my students for that one.
We had this really great false spring with temperatures in the 60s (Farenheit) and then we were down to the negatives again.
I left town twice this month! This is pretty big when the closest other places are 2+ hours away and there is a lot of snow on the ground.
I spent a great deal of time with my head in a book and I am perfectly okay with that.

Books I Read in February

The Holy Trinity in the Life of the Church

Tagged as Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Apostolic Exhortation, Birthday Month Reading Challenge, Catholic, Catholic Book, Color Coded Challenge, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Lent, Monthly Wrap-Up, Pope Francis, Read 2015, Rereading Challenge, School, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge

Review: Cinder

Posted February 23, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #1
Publisher: Square Fish (2012)
Paperback (390 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Scarlet, Cress, Fairest
Also in this series: Scarlet, Cress, Fairest
Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, 2015 Fairytale Retelling, Read 2015

Synopsis

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

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Tagged as 5 star, All Time Favorites, Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge

Review: Water Song

Posted February 17, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Water Song by Suzanne Weyn
Series: Once Upon A Time
Publisher: Simon Pulse (2006)
Paperback (189 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: The Night Dance
Also in this series: Snow, Sunlight and Shadow, The Night Dance
Reading Challenges: 2015 Fairytale Retelling, 2015 Re-Reading, Read 2015

Synopsis

Young, beautiful, and wealthy, Emma Pennington is accustomed to a very comfortable life. Although war rages abroad, she hardly feels its effect. She and her mother travel from their home in Britain to the family estate in Belgium, never imagining that the war could reach them there. But it does.
Soon Emma finds herself stranded in a war-torn country, utterly alone. Enemy troops fight to take over her estate, leaving her with no way to reach her family, and no way out.
With all of her attention focused on survival and escape, Emma hardly expects to find love. But the war will teach her that life is unpredictable, people aren’t always what they seem, and magic is lurking everywhere.

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Tagged as 4 star, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Read 2015, Rereading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge

Review: The Kiss That Saved Her

Posted February 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

The Kiss That Saved Her by E M McCarthy
(2015)
eARC (280 pages)
Via: Author
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, 2015 Fairytale Retelling, Read 2015

Synopsis

Princess Joanna is expected to marry to protect her kingdom from the threat of war but she loves David, a common man. She will only marry if she loves her husband. Her dearest friend, Prince Samuel, has loved her since he met her. Rumors swirl about Prince Samuel’s relationship with a princess whose country has had a major discovery of gold. Will there be a change of heart? Is there really such a thing as love at first sight?

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Tagged as 4 star, Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge