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January Book Club Read: Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

Posted on January 1, 2014 Leave a Comment

The LeVar’s Rainbow Book Club has been on hiatus for the past two months due to NaNoWriMo and the craziness of Christmas. For the new year, we’ll be getting back into it with a book selected from this list of fairy tales for grown ups. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen Ever since she was a […]

Graphic Novel Review: Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm by Bill Willingham

Posted on December 12, 2013 Leave a Comment

Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm by Bill WillinghamGenre: Urban Fantasy, Fairy tales Publisher: Vertigo Date of Publication: August 1, 2003 Author Information: Website | Twitter Tiara’s Rating: 3 of 5 stars – This volumes adds another important struggle to the fables’ life (conformity versus nonconformity), one that I hope will be touched on continuously throughout the series and not promptly […]

Review Bites: Fairy Tales

Posted on November 16, 2013 Leave a Comment

Disney and the hit series, Once Upon A Time, keep fairy tales at the forefront of current pop culture, yet these stories have been around since forever and many other storytellers have had their fun with them along the way. Fearie Tales returns fairy tales to their roots, reminding us that these stories were originally not […]

Review Bites

Posted on July 11, 2013 2 Comments

Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian Scottie Winston’s wife, sister-in-law, and daughter are all dowsers or “water witches,” meaning they can divine the location of water sources. He finds himself at odds with his family when he lobbies for a ski resort that wants to move into the drought stricken town and use the river to […]

Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Posted on March 8, 2013 3 Comments

Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson Genre: Fantasy, Magical Realism Publisher: HarperCollins Author Information: Twitter Tiara’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars First, I should say if you want a sweet, innocent Peter Pan story, this story isn’t for you. This is nowhere near as dark as Brom’s The Child Thief, but while Brom’s book focuses […]

Book Review: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Posted on September 15, 2011 Leave a Comment

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman As a sequel of sorts to American Gods and based on word of mouth that told me that this was very much unlike the much darker predecessor, I wasn’t sure what to expect, although, anything centred around Anansi promised to be charming. The book started rather slowly with an intentionally boring character, Fat Charlie Nancy, who’s […]

Book Review: The Child Thief by Brom

Posted on July 15, 2011 3 Comments

The Child Thief by Brom While I think from just reading the summary, most people know they are not walking into a completely black and white, good vs evil, story. You know that it will be somewhere in between, that there is a lot of gray area in this story. And boy was it ever. […]