I can't write books so I review them instead
Thank you to Edelweiss and the publishers for this eARC in exchange for my honest review. I am such a fan of retellings of classic fairy tales and stories. I’ve read quite a few that have featured Cinderella but I’m always searching for a new take on this classic and I was really excited to…
No fairy godmother. No magic pumpkin. Just one grumpy girl and a glass slipper. Title: Happily Author: Chauncey Rogers Pages: 299 Publication Date: April 3, 2018 Genre: YA (MG-friendly) Fantasy/Fairy-Tale Retelling Links: Amazon Link GoodReads Link Author Website Summary (Goodreads): If the shoe fits, wear it. If it doesn’t, make it. Laure is a teenage…
The first book I ever read by Gregory Maguire was Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and it was fantastic. It was a different take on the classic Cinderella story and it was the first time I ever read a retelling. You could say that this is what got me into this genre in the first…
Merry Christmas! To celebrate this festive holiday, here is a novel that is all about the Christmas spirit! Here is my review: 5 years ago on Christmas Eve, Holly was visited by 3 ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she was to try to get her to mend her ways. She didn’t. And…
Yes!!!!!!!!! A new Neil Gaiman that I haven’t read!!!! I was so excited when I heard about this book’s release, but I waited to read it at a time when I knew I could afford to do no work and just focus on the book – because Neil Gaiman deserves it! Anyways, here is my…
The Tempest is one of my favorite plays by Shakespeare. Something about the story and the magic always captured my interest, and I relish any chance to get back into that world. It’s one of the reasons that I love reading retellings of it, and so I was glad to hear of this one. Here…
This novel is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project, where bestselling novelists take one of Shakespeare’s works and retell it in their own way. I recently read Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (see link here: https://veereading.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/hag-seed-by-margaret-atwood) and was floored by the retold version. This made me more eager to get into this Hogarth Shakespeare project and read other…
I received this novel as an advanced copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Everyone knows Robert Louis Stevenson – his novels and stories are famous all over the world. I love The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. So when I got the chance to read a novel about this topic,…
There are two things that immediately appealed to me about this novel: it had the most awesome cover design EVER (in my opinion, at least) and it was based on a classic novel, Jane Eyre. I love classics but Jane Eyre has always been one of my favorite novels and I have read it countless times. The…
I don’t usually read books about India or books written by Indian authors. I was asked to read this book by my mother; she wanted me to try it out first and see if it was any good before she read it. I was a bit skeptical about it because I didn’t know too much…