I love Guy Gavriel Kay’s writing. I loved the way TIGANA started with such a moving & provocative prologue, which segued into a day in the life of a talented 19-year-old singer, […]
The story of a disappeared state (TIGANA by Guy Gavriel Kay)
Juliet Marillier’s CYBELE’S SECRET (WILDWOOD #2)
The sequel to WILDWOOD DANCING, this novel is in a very different key. The supernatural elements present in WILDWOOD DANCING are contained in CYBELE’S SECRET. WILDWOOD retells fairy tales, CYBELE’S SECRET is […]
Juliet Marillier’s WILDWOOD DANCING (WILDWOOD #1)
This is such a charming story, for both young folk and adult alike. Taking the well-known fairy tales of THE FROG PRINCE and THE TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, author Juliet Marilier puts her […]
Juliet Marillier’s HEART’S BLOOD
HEARTS BLOOD by Juliet Marillier is her retelling of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, but she makes this story so much her own, I actually didn’t recognize the original tale, only learning that […]
EMPRESS by Shan Sa
This fictionalized biography of the Empress Wu (17 February 624 to 16 December 705 CE) aka Wu Zetian, Wu Zhao, Wu Hou (Empress Wu) or Tian Hou (Empress Tian) shows the unbelievable […]
FLAME OF SEVENWATERS (SEVENWATERS #6) by Juliet Marillier
I loved FLAME OF SEVENWATERS. Author Juliet Marillier did a wonderfully sensitive job with disability. If one is a differently-abled person it is more difficult to find the things in life that […]
HEIR TO SEVENWATERS (SEVENWATERS #4) by Juliet Marillier
HEIR TO SEVENWATERS is the fourth volume in what was originally meant to be the Sevenwaters Trilogy. But author Juliet Marillier created such an evocative landscape with such interesting characters that readers […]
Juliet Marillier’s CHILD OF THE PROPHECY (SEVENWATERS #3)
CHILD OF THE PROPHECY is the third book in the Sevenwaters Trilogy. Told from the point of view of Fainne, daughter of Niamh and Ciaran, it tells of a sad tale of […]
Juliet Marillier’s SON OF THE SHADOWS (SEVENWATERS #2)
I didn’t think it possible that Juliet Marillier could top her achievement of DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST, the first of the Sevenwaters Trilogy, which is also a re-telling of the Grimm’s Fairy […]
Juliet Marillier’s DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST (SEVENWATERS #1)
It takes eight pages for conflict to erupt in DAUGHTER OF THE FOREST, for the first plot point to be anchored to the story, when Finbur quietly defies his father’s anger and […]
