This book was so much fun! Serafina and the Black Cloak was a delightful little paranormal/adventure mystery. It walked that perfect edge of spooky and creepy yet still able to be a delight for middle grade readers. Serafina lives in the basement of Biltmore with her father the mechanic. He keeps her… Read more »
Isle of the Lost gave me that same feeling of watching those campy kids live action Disney movies from my childhood. The characters were over dramatized and situations a bit silly at times but it was all in good fun. I think this rag tag group of wannabe teen villains… Read more »
Pip Bartlett’s Guide to Magical Creatures by Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pierce obviously caught my eye the second I saw the cover. It has everything I love: illustrations, magical creatures, adorable middle grade plot (just sadly missing dragons, but I have hope!). When I saw it sitting on Tabitha’s shelf,… Read more »
I could say The Forbidden Library was a delight but that might give you the wrong idea – That you were in for fluffy unicorns, rainbows and things like happy endings and that my friends is most certainly not what you are in for. But a wonderful read? Yes, you can… Read more »
Do you know someone that everyone thinks is sugar and spice and everything nice but you know is really the wickedest person alive? The Thickety: A Path Begins has just such a beautiful nasty girl, Grace, pitted against the heroine Kara. This book was much more grim then I originally… Read more »
It all makes sense now, I must be a changeling! Have you ever felt NOT normal? Like you don’t belong? I know I have and so does Hawthorn aka Thomas Rood in The Boy Who Lost Fairyland. Because he knows there simply must be more to life and all everyday objects… Read more »
Beastkeeper is a dark fairytale of a young girl and her cursed family. It’s not only a coming of age story but one that forces young readers to examine and deal with some really harsh realities like abandonment, neglect, and maybe a bit of abuse. I know all of that… Read more »
Doll Bones is a somewhat coming of age middle grade story of three 12 year olds on a quest mixed with light paranormal elements. These three pre-teens have been playing together since they were little kids making up very elaborate adventure type storylines for their toys until one day Zach tells… Read more »
I have rather torn feelings about Monstrous. At first I started out loving it. Kym and her just being born back into life and having to adjust to her body which is made up of the various different parts of different girls and animals. She has both human and cat… Read more »
Good concepts with a light execution Inked introduces a fantasy world where people are supposed to be tattooed with magic ink on the day they come of age. The tattoo they get locks them into a certain job and path in life. Caenum however doesn’t want to be inked because he worries… Read more »
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