Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Challenge. Eddi McCandry is a musician in Minneapolis, playing in band with her boyfriend, Stuart. Neither the band or the relationship are going anywhere, and she breaks off her connection to both after a particularly bad night. Against her friend Carla’s (the band’s drummer) advice, she walks […]
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Read for the 2010 YA and the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenges. Every person that’s read Graceling, every blog that I follow that’s reviewed it, has had nothing but the best things to say about Graceling, so I started this book with high expectations. I’m very happy to say it didn’t disappoint. In
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Read for the YA 2010 Reading Challenge. Life at Obernewtyn has gained a bit of normalcy. Since they’re so far from the Council’s lands to the south, the Misfits are protected by their remoteness, and they believe they have time to gather their forces before the Council comes to investigate them. They’ve divided themselves into
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Miranda is a pretty typical teenager living with her adoptive parents in a small college town in western Massachusetts. She was born in Romania, but has little memory of life there before Rachel and Stanley saw her and took her away. What she doesn’t know
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Peri has lost both her parents to the Sea – her father when he left one morning in his fishing boat, and her mother, because she has never stopped waiting for Peri’s father to come home, and no longer lives in quite the same world
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV and 2010 YA Reading Challenges. Enna Burning is the second book in Shannon Hale’s Bayern series, picking up after the events of The Goose Girl. The Goose Girl is based on the fairy tale, but the books after it continue with the stories of some of the
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Evie Scelan is a bike messenger in Boston who also happens to have a supernatural nose that makes her very handy at finding things. Just a few weeks earlier (as chronicled in the first book of this series, Spiral Hunt), she played a large roll
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Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. Niviene is of the Fey, and unlike most of those mysterious people, lives with her family: her mother Nimway, the Lady of the Lake, and her brother Lugh, on the magical island of Avalon. The mage Merlin is a frequent visitor to the island, where
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Read for the YA 2010 and Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenges. Abdullah is a carpet merchant in the Zanzib bazaar, leading a fairly humble life, until the day a stranger sells him a magic carpet. It’s a rather threadbare, unattractive carpet, but it transports him to a beautiful garden where he meets the
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Blood Bank is technically the last book of the Blood Ties series by Tanya Huff, and the introduction begins with this rather depressing statement: “Because the Blood books were as much about the relationship between the three protagonists as they were about the metaphysical or the mystery, and because in Blood Debt I had wrapped
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