Title: Shadows on the Moon Author: Zoë Marriott Genre: Fantasy, Fairytale Retelling, Young Adul Publisher: Walker Books Publication Date: July 7th 2011 Paperback: 464 pages “On my fourteenth birthday when the sakura was in full bloom, the men came…
Retelling
Title: Toads and Diamonds Author: Heather Tomlinson Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Retelling Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. Publication Date: March 2010 Hardcover: 288 Pages Diribani has come to the village well to get water for her family’s…
Title: The Swan Maiden Author: Heather Tomlinson Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tale, Retelling Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. Publication Date: August 2007 Hardcover: 304 Pages In the quiet hour before dawn, anything can happen. A third daughter can…
Title: Abandon Author: Meg Cabot Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary/Urban Fantasy, Retellings, Paranormal Publisher: Scholastic Publication Date: April 2011 Hardcover: 320 Pages She didn’t fall into his world. She was taken. Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we…
Title: Mermaid Author: Carolyn Turgeon Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Broadway (US) / Headline (UK) Publication date: March 2011 Paperback: 352 pages While in hiding at a remote convent, a king’s daughter sees a magical being dragging a shipwrecked man to…
Title: The Folk Keeper Author: Franny Billingsley Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Atheneum (US)/ Bloomsbury (UK) Publication Date First edition: 1999/ New edition: April 2011 Paperback: 176 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone Corinna Stonewall is fifteen years old and…
Title: Bound Author: Donna Jo Napoli Genre: Historical Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Atheneum Publication Date: November 2004 Hardcover: 192 pages YOUNG XING XING IS BOUND. Bound to her father’s second wife and daughter after Xing Xing’s father…
Welcome to Smugglivus 2010: Day 27 Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors, bloggers and publishers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2010, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2011.…
Pajama Party Blog Tour & Novella Review: The Sevenfold Spell by Tia Nevitt
Title: The Sevenfold Spell Author: Tia Nevitt Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Novella Publisher: Carina Press Publication Date: September 2010 Have you ever wondered what happens to the other people in the fairy tale? Things look grim for Talia and her…
Howdy, everyone! Today we review The Sevenfold Spell, the debut novella from Tia Nevitt, a fellow blogger (who runs the awesomely appropriate blog Debuts & Reviews). To promote The Sevenfold Spell, Tia is holding an honest to goodness pajama…