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Roshani Chokshi: In Which I Go Down the Fantasy Genre Action & Philosophy Rabbit Hole

Posted by beckylevine on 3 Sep 2018 in Book Reivew, Uncategorized |No Comments

I was griping on Facebook the other day about needing some new fantasy novels to read, and a FB friend recommended Roshani Chokshi’s The Star-Touched Queen and A Crown of Wishes. I hadn’t realized until I looked up Chokshi that she is also the author of Aru Shah and the End of Time, the first book in her middle-grade […]

Stella Montgomery, Wormwood Mire’s Brave Hero

Posted by beckylevine on 11 Sep 2017 in Book Reivew, Heroes, Quiet Books, Uncategorized |2 Comments

So I just finished reading Judith Rossell’s Wormwood Mire for the second time in a few weeks. Wormwood Mire is the sequel to Rossell’s Withering-by-Sea, and there is apparently a third book–Wakestone Hall–coming soon, maybe at the end of the year. (Yay!) I really enjoyed Withering-by-Sea, but I absolutely loved Wormwood Mire. It is quiet and lovely and sweet and very much the […]

Time Passage in Sarah Ockler’s FIXING DELILAH

Posted by beckylevine on 29 Jan 2011 in Book Reivew |8 Comments

Fixing Delilah is a wonderful book. The bottom line, for me, is that Sarah Ockler’s prose is smooth, tight, and flowing; her characters are strong and sympathetic; and the story moves along with just enough questions and answers to make me happy. I liked her first book, Twenty Boy Summer, a lot, and Fixing Delilah […]

YA Historical Fiction Challenge: BLACK STORM COMIN’

Posted by beckylevine on 4 Jan 2011 in Book Reivew, YA Historical Fiction Challenge |11 Comments

For my first read in the 2011 Historical Fiction challenge, I started off by breaking one of my own specs. In the post where I announced that I’d take part, I said, “I’m going to try and focus my search on books with protagonists who are at least 16 years old, at the older end […]