Dark Lord of Derkholm: parody and performance
If you haven’t read Diana Wynne Jones’s Tough Guide to Fantasyland, my advise is to get thee to a bookstore and read it as in now why are you still reading this […]
Category Archives: High fantasy
Farah Mendlesohn at Green College, March 11, 2016
The Rhetorics of Fantasy and the Rhetorics of Social Justice That is the title of the talk Farah Mendlesohn, Professor and Head of Department in the Department of English, Communication, Film […]
Discussion Post: The Naming (Books of Pellinor #1) – Alison Croggon
Hardcover, 492 pages Published May 10th 2005 by Candlewick Press Maerad is a slave in a desperate and unforgiving settlement, taken there as a child when her family is destroyed […]
Series Review: Widdershins Adventures by Ari Marmell
Published by Pyr Synopsis of first book: Once she was Adrienne Satti. An orphan of Davillon, she had somehow escaped destitution and climbed to the ranks of the city’s aristocracy […]
Review: Hidden Sea Tales #1-2 by A. M. Dellamonica
Published Tor Books I have many thoughts about this series but first, the premise: One minute, twenty-four-year-old Sophie Hansa is in a San Francisco alley trying to save the life […]
A Pocket Full of Murder (Uncommon Magic #1) by R.J. Anderson
Hardcover, 352 pages Published September 8th 2015 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers Source: Publisher After you are done staring at the cover–oh you aren’t? Okay, look at it some […]
Review: The Sign of the Cat by Lynne Jonell
Hardcover, 368 pages Published June 16th 2015 by Henry Holt and Co. Source: Raincoast Books The Sign of the Cat focuses on Duncan who is super-smart and super-athletic, not that any […]
Review: Court of Fives by Kate Elliott
Hardcover, 448 pages Published: August 18th 2015 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Source: Hachette Books When I first read on Twitter that Kate was writing a YA novel, […]
Snapshot: The Seven Realms Quartet by Cinda Williams Chima
The series was released by Hyperion. The series follows the adventures of Han Alister, former street gang leader and current wicked wizard in training and Raisa ana’Marianna, kickass princess and […]
Review: Shadow Scale (Seraphina #2) by Rachel Hartman
Hardcover, 608 pages Published March 10th 2015 by Random House Children’s Books Source: Publisher Shadow Scale is a sequel to Seraphina and will most probably contain spoilers for the first book in this […]
The Book Wars 