Category Archives: 5/5
What kind of person could ever truly love a monstrous beauty?
Title: Fire Author: Kristin Cashore Genre: fantasy Pages: 461 Days to read it: ONE NIGHT Synopsis: Fire is a monster. Her beauty and supernatural powers of attraction are so mesmerizing and craze-inducing to man and beast that she must spend … Continue reading →
Filed under 5/5, of Books, Stories and Novels
Tagged as book review, fantasy, Fire, graceling, kristin cashore, Monsea, Romance, the Dells, YA, Young Adult
Leave the window to your library open so the book thief can come in….
Title: The Book Thief Author: Markus Zusak Genre: Historical Fiction/Fantasy Time to read it: 4 days! Synopsis: There is a special room in her house, a room filled with joy, pain, wonder, fear. In that room, the warm bellows of … Continue reading →
Filed under 5/5, of Books, Stories and Novels
Tagged as book review, fantasy, Historical Fiction, hitler youth, Markus Zusak, nazi, The Book Thief, WWII, Young Adult
It’s hard not to just lay down in the sand and let the dunes absorb you when the story’s so good!!
Title: Dune Author: Frank Herbert Pages: 535 Days to read it: Less than five! Genre: Science-fiction (but I would say sci-fi/fantasy, because, though Mr. Herbert uses scientific concepts to explain phenomena happening on the planet, there is enough of an … Continue reading →
Filed under 5/5, of Books, Stories and Novels
Tagged as book review, Butlerian Jihad, Dune, Frank Herbert, novel, science fiction, series
What does it mean to walk the dreams of dragons?
Title: Cold Magic, the first book of the Spiritwalker Trilogy Author: Kate Elliott Pages: 502 Days to read it: I read half the book at the bookstore before I couldn’t resist anymore and had to buy it. After that, I … Continue reading →
Filed under 5/5, of Books, Stories and Novels
Tagged as book review, Cold Magic, fantasy, Kate Elliott
See that shadowed form in the night mists? Could it be…a good story?
I just finished reading a most amazing book: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson (using Caribousmon’s Random Reading Challenge to attack my bookshelf). Get ready for a long review of it… Days to read it: So, I started off slow, reading on … Continue reading →
Filed under 5/5, of Books, Stories and Novels
Tagged as allomancy, book review, Brandon Sanderson, fantasy, Mistborn, mistings, mistwraiths, novel, The final empire
Book of a Thousand Days – read in one day!
I’ve read other Shannon Hale novels before such as, Goose Girl and Princess Academy. I really enjoyed her re-telling of the goose girl fairytale with Princess Anidori-Kiladra. I’ve always found Shannon Hale’s style of writing to be very fluid and … Continue reading →
Filed under 5/5, of Books, Stories and Novels
Tagged as Book of a Thousand Days, books, fairytale, fantasy, Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
