Genre: Fiction, Fairy TaleRating: TV-PG 14 (death, love, darker themes) Villain backstories are a somewhat new demand in the entertainment world, especially for Disney villains that we have all grown up loving to hate. The Beast Within is a Disney Villains backstory that sheds some light on why the Prince from Beauty & the BeastContinue reading “The Beast Within”
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Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros – 3.5/5 Stars – Violet Sorrengail has no choice but to enter the most dangerous school available where students are taught to fly dragons, or die trying.
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen
4/5 Stars – by Alison Weir – A fictionalized telling of Katherine of Aragon’s life as the first of Henry VIII’s wives.
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn – 5/5 Stars – Charlie St. Claire enlists the aid of drunken ex-WWI spy Eve Gardiner to track down what happened to her cousin, Rose, during WWII.
A Deadly Gilded Free Fall
by Cecelia Tichi – 4.5/5 Stars – The DeVere’s are back to solving crime when Roddy’s future business partner reveals he is under investigation for the suspicious death of his wife.
The Song of Achilles
Wow. Just…wow. This book had jumped out to me several times at various book stores before I finally convinced myself to take a copy home with me. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect to find within the pages. Most of us have heard the story of Achilles – how his mother Thetis dipped himContinue reading “The Song of Achilles”
My Plain Jane
by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows – 5/5 Stars – Charlotte Brontë assists Mr. Blackwood in recruiting her friend, Jane Eyre, to the Society responsible for relocating ghosts. Unfortunately, Jane is in love with Mr. Rochester, a nefarious individual with a sketchy past.
As Old As Time
by Liz Braswell – 3.5/5 Stars – Disney’s Beauty and the Beast with a dark and haunting twist.
First Born
by Will Dean – 5/5 Stars – Mollie Raven travels to NYC to apprehend her twin sister’s murderer.
The Alcoholic Mercenary
by Phil Hughes – 4/5 stars – Nicolo Di Cuma starts life fresh from the military as a mercenary for the Italian mafia in order to protect his brother from their wrath.
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