Title: A Curse Dark As Gold Author: Elizabeth C Bunce Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books Release Date: 1 November 2010 (first published 1st March 2008) Genre: YA, historical fantasy, fairytale retelling Format: Audiobook (unabridged) Page Count: 396 (paperback) Source: Library Rating: A Curse Dark as Gold takes its inspiration from the Rumpelstilskin Grimm fairy tale, though […]
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Audio Book Review: Adorkable by Sarra Manning
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks Publishing Date: 1 Jun 2012 Genre: Contemporary Format: Audio Book (unabridged) My rating: Jeane Smith has half a million followers on Twitter, runs her own lifestyle brand based on being dorky, but lives on her own and has no real-life friends. Michael Lee is handsome, athletic, has good grades, and doesn’t see the point in […]
Audio Book Review: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Publisher: Buzzy Multimedia Publishing Publishing Date: February 2 2003 Genre: Urban Fantasy Format: Audio Book (unabridged) My rating: Storm Front did not seem like my kind of book. A family member has been pestering me to read them, and I have resisted, only because it does not sound like ‘my’ kind of thing. I mean sure, urban fantasy, a […]
Mini Review: Sailor Twain: or The Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel
Publisher: First Second Publishing Date: October 2 2012 Genre: Graphic Novel Format: e-ARC Page count: 400 My rating: Mark Siegel’s wonderfully imagined and beautifully drawn graphic novel Sailor Twain tells the story of the Mermaid in the Hudson (which is also its alternate title). Captain Twain stumbles upon an injured mermaid, and in nursing her back to health develops an […]
Mini Review: Angel & Faith: Live Through This by Christos Gage
Publisher: Dark Horse Publishing Date: June 20 2012 Genre: Graphic Novel Format: Paperback Page count: 136 My rating: Live Through This is the tale of retribution and atonement after Angel, Whedon’s popular vampire with a soul, commits a horrific act in the previous novel. Faith, the rogue vampire Slayer with a tumultuous past is the only character that will stick […]