by envisionmg | Apr 21, 2016 | Fantasy, Rachel Reviews
I don’t know how A Darker Shade of Magic got on my radar or really what I was expecting, but it honestly was amazing and had me, like, whipping through chapters.* Schwab – better known for her young adult fiction written under her given name Victoria – weaves early...
by envisionmg | Apr 11, 2016 | Fantasy, Jim Reviews
Brodsky’s Immortals is the first book in her Olympus Bound series, a fantasy of Greek gods and goddesses in present day New York City. It’s a great concept. As people gradually stopped believing in the gods of Olympus they started to weaken. Finally,...
by envisionmg | Apr 21, 2015 | Fantasy, Staff Review
Recommended by Linda The Secret Prince is a story of magic, adventure, surprise, fairytale and deception. As an infant, Thorn, is left by a cave entrance and is cared for by an old man. The old man teaches Thorn survival skills and stories of the mean king who took...
by envisionmg | Feb 18, 2015 | Fantasy, Fiction, Michelle Reviews, Romance, Staff Review
James Hookbridge has been cursed to an eternity of waging war against sharp-toothed boys in the Neverland. Wholly weary of it, he has but one desire left to him, and that is for Death to find and take him at His earliest convenience. For a permanent ceasefire; the...
by envisionmg | Nov 24, 2014 | Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Staff Reading, What I'm Reading Now, YA Fiction
The thing is, I’m knee-deep in Spiders. It’s unthinkable, I know, but the truth is I’ve never been a Peter Parker/Spider-Man fan. Wait, though! Those days may be numbered, thanks to Spider-Verse. The first Spider-Verse specific issue (not taking into...
by envisionmg | Oct 24, 2014 | Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Staff Review
By Jim In Toby Barlow’s second novel, Babayaga, he moves from the werewolves of his first book, Sharp Teeth, to extremely touchy witches, bumbling spies and 1950s Paris. I found the book fascinating for its mixture of qualities; it is humorous with dark...
