BOOK REVIEW : MYTHOPEDIA – AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHICAL BEASTS AND THEIR MAGICAL TALES BY GOOD WIVES AND WARRIORS
Mythopedia is a brilliantly illustrated encyclopedia of mythical beasts and fantastical creatures from around the world. The beautiful cover pulled me in from the moment I laid my eyes on it. The book is well researched and filled with enlightening information regarding various beasts and creatures often heard in lores. It was an absolute delight to read this book and a visual feast as well. I was awed by the vivid details added to the beautiful art in this book. The bright colors, the imagery this book presents is breathtaking!!
- ADVENTURE, BOOK BLITZ, BOOK EXCERPT, BOOK PROMOTIONS, BOOK TOUR, CHILDREN'S, FANTASY, FICTION, MIDDLE GRADE, MYTHOLOGY, YA
ROCKSTAR BOOK TOURS – BOOK EXCERPT : ARU SHAH AND THE TREE OF WISHES (PANDAVA QUARTET #3) BY ROSHANI CHOKSHI
War between the devas and the demons is imminent, and the Otherworld is on high alert. When intelligence from the human world reveals that the Sleeper is holding a powerful clairvoyant and her sister captive, 14-year-old Aru and her friends launch a search-and-rescue mission. The captives, a pair of twins, turn out to be the newest Pandava sisters, though, according to a prophecy, one sister is not true.
BOOK REVIEW : WICKED SAINTS (SOMETHING DARK AND HOLY #1) BY EMILY.A.DUNCAN
We’re all monsters, Nadya, some of us just hide it better than others. -WICKED SAINTS TITLE : Wicked Saints (Something Dark & Holy #1) AUTHOR : Emily.A.Duncan GENRE : YA, Fantasy FBRC RATING : 5 Stars BLURB : A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself. A prince in danger must decide who to trust. A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war. In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to…
BOOK REVIEW : SPIN THE DAWN ( THE BLOOD OF STARS #1) BY ELIZABETH LIM
“Seize the wind,” I whispered. “Don’t become the kite that never flies.” -SPIN THE DAWN TITLE : SPIN THE DAWN (THE BLOOD OF STARS #1) AUTHOR : Elizabeth Lim GENRE : YA/ Fantasy/ Romance FBRC RATING : 4.25 Stars BLURB: Project Runway meets Mulan in this sweeping YA fantasy about a young girl who poses as a boy to compete for the role of imperial tailor and embarks on an impossible journey to sew three magic dresses, from the sun, the moon, and the stars. Maia Tamarin dreams of becoming the greatest tailor in the land, but as a girl, the best she can hope for is to marry well. When a royal…
BOOK REVIEW : THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS : MIDNIGHT MAGIC AND DANGEROUS TALES
I know who I am without anyone there to tell me. -THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS : MIDNIGHT TALES AND DANGEROUS MAGIC, LEIGH BARDUGO TITLE : The language of thorns : Midnight tales and dangerous magic AUTHOR : Leigh Bardugo GENRE : YA, Fantasy, Myth, Fairy Tale and Folklore FBRC RATING : 4.5 Stars BLURB: Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems, where a young mermaid’s voice can summon deadly storms and where a river might do a lovestruck boy’s bidding but only for a terrible price. Inspired by…
- ADULT, ARCS, BOOK REVIEWS, COMEDY / SATIRE / HUMOR, CONTEMPORARY, EDELWEISS+, FICTION, HISTORICAL FICTION, HUMOR, MYTHOLOGY, WOMEN'S FICTION
BOOK REVIEW : THE ORACLE OF CUMAE BY MELISSA HARDY
TITLE : AUTHOR : GENRE : Fiction, Historical, Humor FBRC RATING : 3.5 Stars PUBLISHING DATE : 8 Oct 2019 BLURB: On the day she turns ninety-nine, Mariuccia Umbellino calls for a priest so that she might finally confess to someone the secrets she has been living with for seventy-five years. When she was a girl, a band of men appeared at her family’s farm in the wild Sibylline Mountains with orders from the pope to destroy the nearby shrine of the Oracle of Cumae and to thereby end forever the practice of the Old Religion that had persisted in that region since Roman times. Set in early nineteenth-century Italy,…
BOOK REVIEW : WICKED FOX BY KAT CHO
“Maybe it’s wrong for us to hold any one person as our whole world. Maybe…” Jihoon trailed off with an odd expression. “Maybe it’s wrong of us to owe all of our happiness or sadness to one person. – KAT CHO (WICKED FOX) TITLE : Wicked fox AUTHOR : Kat Cho GENRE : YA, Fantasy, Mythology, Romance FBRC RATING : 4 stars BLURB: A fresh and addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret–she’s a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few believe in the old tales anymore, and with so many evil men no…
