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What do readers say about Spinning Silver?
fairy-tale style magical & imaginative mankind’s battle with winter an old-fashioned taleWith the Nebula Award-winning Uprooted, Naomi Novik opened a brilliant new chapter in an already acclaimed career, delving into the magic of fairy tales to craft a love story that was both timeless and utterly of the now. Spinning Silver draws reader... More details on Spinning Silver
The real story is, the miller’s daughter with her long golden hair wants to catch a lord, a prince, a rich man’s son, so she goes to the moneylender and borrows for a ring and a necklace and decks her...
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What do readers say about Cinder?
her character was good suspenseful, engaging, and emotional a cutsie tale futuristic fairy taleThe first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer like you've never seen it before, now with new cover art! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyb... More details on Cinder
THE SCREW THROUGH CINDER’S ANKLE HAD RUSTED, THE engraved cross marks worn to a mangled circle. Her knuckles ached from forcing the screwdriver into the joint as she struggled to loosen the screw one ...
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What do readers say about Beauty?
short & sweet friendship and love deeper and more complex thoughtful, and elegantBeauty has never liked her nickname. She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in appearance, she can perhaps make up for in courage.
When her father comes home with a tale of an enchanted castle... More details on Beauty
I was the youngest of three daughters. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour, but few people except perhaps the minister who had baptized all three of us remembered my given name....
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What do readers say about Uprooted?
dark fairy tale coming of age story engaging and clever first person narrativeAgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.
Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known ... More details on Uprooted
Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrific...
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What do readers say about The Bear and the Nightingale?
evocative and atmospheric a russian folktale evocative and beautiful dark, lyrical, mysticKatherine Arden's bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.
"A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up."-Naomi Novik,... More details on The Bear and the Nightingale
It was late winter in northern Rus’, the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow. The brilliant February landscape had given way to the dreary gray of March, and the household of Pyotr Vlad...
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What do readers say about The Bloody Chamber?
beautiful, detailed description beautiful, elaborate, highly perfumed dark and sensual classic carter styleAngela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber-which inc... More details on The Bloody Chamber
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What do readers say about Daughter of the Forest?
flowery and ornate an irish version award winnig novel very wordy and repetitiousDaughter of the Forest, the first book in Juliet Marillier's award-winning Sevenwaters Trilogy.
Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is comforted by her six brothers who love and ... More details on Daughter of the Forest
Three children lay on the rocks at the water’s edge. A dark-haired little girl. Two boys, slightly older. This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber. Myse...
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What do readers say about Snow, Glass, Apples?
snow white fairy-tale excellent short story short story/graphic novel inventive but also shallowA chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran.
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world w... More details on Snow, Glass, Apples
They call me wise, but I am far from wise, for all that I foresaw fragments of it, frozen moments caught in pools of water or in the cold glass of my mirror. If I were wise I would not have tried to c...
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What do readers say about Ella Enchanted?
complex and witty fresh, clear, utterly charming injection of humour post modern styleThat fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nos... More details on Ella Enchanted
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head s...
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What do readers say about A Court of Thorns and Roses?
epic romance intrigue and magic epic story new adult/fantasyWith bits of Buffy, Game Of Thrones and Outlander, this is a glorious series of total joy - Stylist
The tantalising start to a seductive fantasy series from global #1 bestselling author Sarah J. Maas
Feyre is a huntress. And when she sees a deer in t... More details on A Court of Thorns and Roses
I’d been monitoring the parameters of the thicket for an hour, and my vantage point in the crook of a tree branch had turned useless. The gusting wind blew thick flurries to sweep away my tracks, but ...
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