Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Eff is a twin, and her younger brother is the seventh son of a seventh son, making him a natural born magician with strong powers. Problem is, because of the number of sisters they have, that makes her the thirteenth child, and even some of […]
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Jena is the second of five sisters. They live with their merchant father in the mountains of Transylvania, and they have a secret. On the night of the full moon, as long as they are together, they can open a portal to the Fairy Realm,
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Well here’s an interesting combination – an Arthurian post apocalyptic tale. And it’s from the 80s, so it predates the current post-apocalyptic YA trend. The story is set in a boarding school in what used to be called Wales. It’s about 500 years past a
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Susanne Whitestone had lived all her life in her father’s Yorkshire manor house. And while she had a happy childhood, it did not involve her father. Susanne’s mother had died in childbirth, and Richard Whitestone had withdrawn into his second floor rooms in grief. Raised
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. This ended up being a fortuitous pick for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge, as this tale owes a great deal to tales from Russian folklore. Ferus is the king of Serre, and is a cruel man. His only son and heir, Ronan, has
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. This story takes place in the same world as The Curse of Chalion, and Paladin of Souls, two books I adored. While those books are about one family – the royal family of the kingdom of Chalion, this book is set in another country, which
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Read for the Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge. Thomas the Rhymer is an old tale, based on a real man in medieval Scotland. In the old ballads, Thomas meets the Queen of Elfland, and is taken away by her to her realm, where he lives for seven years. After that, he returns to
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Jared is a pleasure slave, one who turned on his owner, and killed her. So he’s now at the slave market, sure he’ll be sent to the Salt Mines, when what he at first thinks is an even worse fate finds him. The Grey Lady, Queen of the neighboring land of Dena Nehele, has come
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After my slight disappointment with Shiver, I’ll admit I was a little leery of picking up another Maggie Stiefvater book, but I’ve heard such great things about her (hi, Jenn!), I gave her another go when The Scorpio Races came up as an Amazon Kindle special. I’m definitely glad I did – I liked this
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Lady Truthful Newington is turning eighteen, and her father has decided to mark the occasion with a viewing of the Newington Emerald. The Emerald has been in the family for centuries, and is a powerful magical tool for the women of the family. It’ll be Truthful’s when she’s twenty one. The viewing happens during a
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