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Which witch is which?

The Orphan Witch by Paige Crutcher

January 11, 2025 by NatalieH Leave a Comment

The Orphan Witch by Paige Crutcher is another book that I’ve owned for quite some time and don’t initially remember why I picked it up. It does have a very pretty cover, so I recently decided to read it. The book tells the story of Persephone May, a woman who, when she looks anyone in the eye, causes strange things to happen. After the latest incident, where she caused a man that she’d been flirting with to walk directly into traffic, caused a public scene, […]

A lovely, much-needed escape

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson

January 11, 2025 by MamaOrca 7 Comments

When I began this book, I was not sold on the first few chapters. The style was a little too – overly smarmy asides, self-satisfied attempts at humor – I was annoyed by the cliched characters and benign but still smug silliness. And then my hometown, Los Angeles, caught fire, and my family evacuated early one morning, and my entire feeling toward it changed. I read this book over three days while waiting for my phone to tell me which of my friends had lost […]

What kind of pastry are you?

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

January 11, 2025 by finnyfinfinn 3 Comments

It’s cold outside my friends. Let’s snuggle up under the covers with a cup of something warm and this lovely cozy fantasy. I think I’d be a simple chocolate brownie, super sweet and delightfully squishy. Tao is a traveling fortune teller, drifting from village to village in a wagon pulled by her trusty mule Laohu. It’s a solitary life made less lonely when a small fortune causes a former thief and an ex-mercenary to join her in her travels as they search for a lost […]

Magic!!! (jazz hands)

Pacheco and the Witch of the Mountain: A Graphic Novel by Juan E. Zambrano

January 10, 2025 by BlackRaven 1 Comment

We have seen this story before: Boys cannot do magic. They cannot be witches. The non witches also think witches are evil and bad. Witches think non witches are beneath them and if they have any trace of magic it is not pure and therefore not worthy of paying attention to. But in Pacheco and the Witch of the Mountain: A Graphic Novel by Juan E. Zambrano (due June 2025) this story is told with a bit of fun and humor, plus a few twists […]

The Myth, the Magic, The Woman

Medea by Blandine Le Callet

January 10, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

In Medea by Blandine Le Callet, Nancy Peña (Illustrator), Montana Kane (Translator) the question you must first ask yourself is can you trust this narrator or not? Then, are you seeing the true story or not? Has she been villainized to take blame away from the real culprits? Or is she the monster history says? Those questions and more, will come alive in this adaptation of Medea’s story. The afterwards show how the historical, myth and magic all came together, along with the creators adaptations, […]

My Life is Weird and so are these books (in a good way)

My Life is Weird My Mom Is a Mermaid! by Bill Canterbury

My Life is Weird My Dad Is a Unicorn! by Bill Canterbury

My Life is Weird My Teacher Is a Dinosaur! by Bill Canterbury

January 8, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Online reader looking included three new titles from the My Life is Weird by Bill Canterbury series that are due in April and June 2025. I almost did not read them, as they looked too easy for what I was looking for. However, while they were easy, they had a little something about them that made me think about reading them. It was only until I saw that if you liked the How to Catch series by Adam Wallace that sealed the deal. I enjoy […]

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Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
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Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.

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