A steampunk retelling of Cinderella as an artificer. I was kind of surprised by how . . . young this felt. It's marketed as YA, but seemed rather better suited to a younger audience. The plotting is fairly straight forward, the deviations from the popular version of the story line, while interesting...
[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley and Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.]An interesting retelling of "Cinderella", in that it veers away from the traditional Happy Ever After being brough by Finding True Love. Not that love isn't nice, but I've always found it a bit... lack...
First of all, let me start by reiterating something that all the other reviewers have been saying ad infinitum... This has nothing to do with Cinder, people! More than a mechanic, Nicolette is actually an inventor. Also, she has all her limbs... Yes, in this story our main character lives a ver...
You lost me at Cassandra Clare
On the whole a decent read.
Soon-to-be college student Noah Gallagher expects a boring summer with his sister and grandmother and working a marine biology internship. Then he meets Mara, who’s beautiful, mysterious and shares a chemistry like never before, only to find out she’s a selkie like those in his grandmother’s tales. ...
Kind of unsure as to how to review this one. It was really dark and heavy in some places, but also seemed like it was written for middle readers in others. I'll have to think on this one a bit more.
*** 3.5 stars ***
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