Category: Fantasy
-
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
This #1 New York Times Bestseller by Ransom Riggs is absolutely enchanting. The back-cover synopsis didn’t prepare me for the lovely story that unfolds during the first half of this novel. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is the first installment of a 7-book series. For years, teenage Jacob Portman…
-
Eleanor by Jason Gurley
Eleanor was self-published by Jason Gurley in summer 2014 and picked up by Crown Publishing later that year. Eleanor is a haunting story about twins who have been separated. Eleanor is six years old when her twin sister Esmerelda is thrown from the car and killed in a violent accident.…
-
Chosen by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Chosen is book #3 in the House of Night vampyre series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. If you’re reading this review, you’ve probably already read books #1 and #2 and I don’t have to offer too much backstory! Chosen picks up shortly after the ending of Betrayed. It’s Christmas…
-
Betrayed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Betrayed is book #2 in the House of Night series by P.C. Cast and her daughter Kristin. This is a great series so far, and I’m already excited to read the next one. Betrayed picks up just weeks later from the ending of Marked. By this point, vampyre fledgling Zoey…
-
Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Marked is the first novel in the House of Night series by P.C. Cast and her daughter, Kristin Cast. As a die-hard, lifelong fan of The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith (the original series), I’ve never really enjoyed other teen vampire series. But I found the first few books in…
-
Pork by Cris Freddi
My copy of Pork, featured below, was released in 1983. The artwork is fun, I’m glad I was able to find a copy at my local used bookstore. I learned about Pork after looking up “humorous fantasy novels,” and I found this recommendation on a Goodreads list. This book features…
-
Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
“If you loved The Vampire Diaries, you should read Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods.” That’s what this Buzzfeed article says, so I got Blue Bloods to see what all the fuss was about. My final verdict? It reads more like Gossip Girl, if you ask me. The star of…
-
The Book of Common Dread by Brent Monahan
The early 1990s were a lovely era for vampire fiction. Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles were going strong, Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series was just starting out, and L.J. Smith’s Vampire Diaries was rocking the teen scene. Considering how great those years were, I wasn’t surprised to see…
-
One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
One Foot in the Grave is the 2nd book in the Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost. One Foot in the Grave picks up about 4 years after the ending of the first book, Halfway to the Grave. Now, Cat Crawfield is a Special Agent for the government, in charge…