Fairy tales must be hard to write: so few people ever manage to produce a good one. There are many retellings, of course, particularly popular in YA, but few new ones. Snyder does an excellent job of getting the tone right: close enough to respect the conventions, but with enough of modern sensibili...
For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleI am rather conflicted about this one.I picked up this audiobook from the library because the cover looked interesting. Once I started listening to it, I was instantly hooked. Nine children growing up on an island and a mysterious green boat that bring...
The boat would come view, the horn would blow and the children would line up on the beach just waiting for the boat to come ashore. It happened every year, or so they thought. They didn’t know it if was exactly a year, they didn’t count the days but they figured it was a year. A male or female child...
Jinny and eight other children live on Orphan Island, as nine children always have. They have roofs over their heads, they have books to read and they have jobs to do. The weather is never more than they can handle and even the animals and the wind seem to go out of their way to help them.Of course,...
Sweet and fun. It's the kind of book I would have loved when I was a child, full of references to other books, with a bit of trouble and a lot of humor. The characters are quirky without being scary, there's enough backstory but not too much, and it's, well, wholesome. Sweet is the proper word, I th...
While this has a bit of magic in it, it's essentially a real-life, coming-of-age story. I really liked how Rebecca evolved in this story, particularly when it came to her perspectives about her parents and little brother. Her experience and reaction to her parents' separation seemed really true to l...
This was a nice idea, but I personally was very bothered by the lack of system for the magic in the story. The rules didn't quite seem to make sense to me, and I couldn't help wondering why Rebecca didn't have more questions earlier. She doesn't seem to be in the realm of kid raised on classic fanta...
(Original review posted on my livejournal account: http://intoyourlungs.livejournal.com/36031.html)Why I Read It: So this section here will be a disclaimer because I actually read an ARC of this. As I've mentioned many times on this blog I work at a bookstore. For the past two years every October re...
One Wednesday morning Rebecca wakes up, walks down the stairs and sees her mother, packing. Her father is watching, sad and silent, and then Rebecca, her baby brother Lew, and her mother get in the car and leave. They drive all the way to Atlanta, to live with Gran, and Rebecca's doesn't talk to h...
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