Living in Flow by Sky Nelson-Isaacs is a book I have been longing for! A book that shows what is commonly regarded as magic or mere ‘wishful thinking’ is indeed science we can strive to replicate. This was all something I’ve tried to articulate to others before, but lacked the wherewithal to explain properly. Nelson-Isaacs […]
Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard, third in the Truthwitch series, continues following Isuelt and Aeduan as they seek Owl’s tribe. A world away, Safi is fulfilling her obligations to Vaness in rooting out the betrayers in her court. In Nubrevna, Vivia has prepped the underground city and is ready to reveal it. And Merik, traveling with […]
Holland’s Just in Case is a collection of flash fiction stories. For those who are unfamiliar with this writing style, flash fiction is snapshot writing. Most of the time, these stories are mere paragraphs long, often way shorter than major news stories, some shorter than minor news stories even! The stories in this collection run […]
Duga’s Glow of the Fireflies is a magical tale of nature’s wonder, and the true connectedness underlying all things. When Briony’s Gran breaks her leg, Briony ends up returning to her childhood home in the quaint Firefly Valley to care for her. It is a place Briony doesn’t remember, thanks to retro-grade amnesia after an […]
Thanku, edited by Miranda Paul, is an enchanting anthology of gratitude poetry accompanied by gorgeous artwork. There are many things we have to be thankful for, and these poems can teach young readers how to be thankful for even the simplest things in life. Each poem is a different style. At the bottom of each […]
In the winter of 2018, Hyun Kyu Seo made an extraordinary trip, into the heart of the infamous Chernobyl disaster, thirty-two years after the fact. This horrific disaster is one of the ‘where were you’ defining global incidents of my early childhood. Following a love for Eastern European culture, Seo visited the Ukraine, and was […]
Draw 62 Magical Creatures/ Animals and Make Them Cute by Heegyum Kim Kim’s Draw 62 Magical Creatures/ Animals and Make Them Cute is a simple little art book with easy to follow directions. There are certainly some creative ideas for making each creature ‘cute’. There is a good deal of variety among the 62, with […]
Stormrise by Jillian Boehme is a magical reweaving of Mulan, twined with Twelfth Night. Rain is her family’s second daughter. She is one half of a set of twins and despite looking eerily alike, Storm is her brother. When a childhood fever attacks both, it stunts Storm’s mental growth. Now, as a teen, he is […]
A Treason of Thorns by Laura E Weymouth is a darkly charming tale about a magical House, a dying land, and bonds that transcend notions of animate/sentient and inanimate/non-sentient. Violet Sterling grew up in the shadow of Burleigh House, one of England’s Great Houses whose magic sustains (or condemns) the land. Her father was Burleigh’s […]
The Necromancer’s Bride is fourth in Ross’ Gaslamp Gothic series. Anne Lawrence has gone in search of Gabriel D’Ange to set things right between them. With her, she brings the cross her brother Alec stole from Gabriel countless moons ago. Anne finds him in Bermuda, and just in time. Gabriel and the Order are about […]