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Book Recommendation: Plain Kate
by Vanessa Di Gregorio ~~~ “A long time ago, in a market town by a looping river, there lived an orphan girl called Plain Kate.” Katerina Svetlana is anything but plain. Though she is thin like a...
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Book Recommendation: FIRELIGHT by Sophie Jordan
“Just surrender to the sizzle.” (Kirkus Reviews ) With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki—the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms....
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Book Recommendation: The Goose Girl
by Vanessa Di Gregorio ~~~ “She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days.” I am a huge fan of fairytales; and an even bigger...
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Book Recommendation: The Wee Free Men
by Jenn Fitzgerald ~~~ I’m already a big Terry Pratchett fan, so I was excited to read his YA work, though this book is pretty much Middle Grade. It’s got a couple of large vocabulary words that might...
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Book Recommendation: StarCrossed
by Vanessa Di Gregorio ~~~ “I couldn’t think. My chest hurt from running, and I wasn’t even sure I was in the right place.” Thieves are awesome. If you’ve read Megan Whalen Turner’s The Thief (which...
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Self-Indulgent Fantasies: Funny, but Not Appropriate
by Susan Dennard ~~ Once upon a time, there was a really beautiful girl with LOTS of money. Her name was Susan, and she was super popular. Everyone wanted to be her, but she was nice, so everyone...
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Book Recommendation: Finnikin of the Rock
by Vanessa Di Gregorio ~~~ “A long time ago, in the spring before the five days of the unspeakable, Finnikin of the Rock dreamed that he was to sacrifice a pound of flesh to save the royal house of...
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Book Recommendation: Blue Fire
by Vanessa Di Gregorio ~~~ “Responsibility was overrated.” Sequels have the ability to both scare and excite me. I suppose on the one hand, I worry that I won’t love the sequel as much as the first...
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Beasts, Monsters and Eldritch Abominations
A lot of fantasy worlds tend to be populated by the same sorts of creatures: dwarfs, trolls, giants, elves, things that look like elves but are called something else to show you that they’re not your...
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Question for Our Readers: Fantasy Going Mainstream
“The Golden Age of Science Fiction is twelve.” -David Hartwell I heard it proposed the other day that therefore the Golden Age of Fantasy is also twelve. However, some have said the Golden Age of...
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