I received a copy of this title from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
Page Count 378
Publication date May 2019/ Publisher Accent Press
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ARC Review; How To Fracture A Fairytale- Jane Yolen
28 Fairy tales, but not as you know them…
I received this ARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
Page Count 320
Publication date Nov 2018/ Publisher Tachyon Publications
Synopsis
Fantasy legend Jane Yolen presents a wide-ranging offering of fractured fairy tales. Yolen fractures the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets, holding them to the light and presenting them entirely transformed; where a spinner of straw into gold becomes a money-changer and the big bad wolf retires to a nursing home. Rediscover the tales you once knew, rewritten and refined for the world we now live in―or a much better version of it.
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This week I’m talking Anthologies.
In my determination to fix my 20% Netgalley score I read two collections this month and have one more to fight through. As mentioned in my previous post I’m not generally a fan of anthologies, here’s how I got on with my fantasy choice:
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Book Review; The Boneless Mercies – April Genevieve Tucholke
Page Count 352
Publication date October 2018/ Publisher Simon & Schuster
Price £3.99 Purchased From: Amazon Kindle (25/12/18)
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They called us the Mercies, or sometimes the Boneless Mercies. They said we were shadows, ghosts, and if you touched our skin we dissolved into smoke …
Frey, Ovie, Juniper, and Runa are Boneless Mercies – death-traders, hired to kill quickly, quietly and mercifully. It is a job for women, and women only. Men will not do this sad, dark work.
Frey has no family, no home, no fortune, and yet her blood sings a song of glory. So when she hears of a monster slaughtering men, women, and children in a northern jarldom, she decides this the Mercies’ one chance to change their fate.
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5 Fantasy Book Series That Need Film Adaptations
Featuring dinosaurs, supernatural powers, gunslingers and corruption. Which titles would you add?
I’ve been watching favourites over the past few weeks. Hunger Games, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter.. my partner refuses to watch Twilight and I can’t say I’d put myself through the mess that is Divergent so it got me thinking- which fantasy series would I want to see adapted? Here’s what I landed on… Continue reading “5 Fantasy Book Series That Need Film Adaptations”
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Mini Review – Caraval- Stephanie Garber
Welcome to Caraval, where nothing is quite what it seems . . .
Page Count 416/ POV First person
Publication date Jan 18/ Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Price £4.99/ Purchased From: Amazon Kindle (10/08/18)
Welcome to Caraval, where nothing is quite what it seems . . .
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