The Cruel Prince by Holly Black Short Review

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a great start to an intriguing story. I hope the rest of the series will hold up to this opener.
I especially liked the lore building that Black has weaved through the plot. I am not familiar with all the traditional lore of the fae but it felt like she drew on it rather than creating a new tradition that made this new tale feel like it was set in a familiar and loved world. Really enjoyed this and will be recommending it to others.

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The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Short Gushing review

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is by far and away the best book I have read this year and possibly last!
I was enthralled from start to finish. This read like a Anderson fairytale with all the horror and resolutions that are not happily but are sort of fair.
I powered through this over the weekend as its so well written.
This will be up there with The Night Circus as a book I will be recommending to everyone because it just so good.

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Fables Vol 22 by Bill Willingham & Mark Buckingham

Fables, Vol. 22: Farewell by Bill Willingham
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

So this was a bit of a mixed bag. I really like the final conclusion of the story line between Snow and Rose Red and some of the Final Story of .... pages but there were just too many of them that I didn't care about. These made it a bit tiresome. Over all quite good but sometimes too much of a good thing is actually too much.

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Snow White By Matt Phelan very short review

Snow White: A Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a re-telling of Snow White set in the 1920's told mostly by the beautiful sketched illustrations. A very quick "read" (There really isn't much to read).

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April Book Photo Challenge Day 5 Favourite Cover

This might seem a little strange but this really is one of my favourite covers and no it's not suposed to be ripped.  The whole ripped thing comes from the fact that a little bit of me feels like I need to rescue books that no else wants. It was on one of those really cheep book sale tables in the middle a shopping center.

The second thing is that this is the book that sparked my love for Gregory Maguire's re-told fairy tales. This was long before the whole Wicked phenomenon (I'm totally not knocking that cos I have been to see it when it came to Burswood.) Thankfully now people actually listen to me when I say  how awsome this book is. 

As far as the cover thing goes though, all of his books have this peek-a-boo thing going on and I love it.