Series: Fairytale Retellings

Book Review: Cold Spell

I knew that Cold Spell would be my favorite of Pearce's series so far because The Snow Queen is by far one of my favorite fairy tales. Add in the fact that Kai is a musician and I knew I would simply fall in love with this book. Ginny has never felt welcomed by Kai's grandmother, but when she passes away Kai is left alone. The last thing Kai's grandmother leaves Ginny feeling guilty, asking him not to go with her anywhere. Then there is the stunningly beautiful girl who drives them to the hospital and Kai begins to pull […]

Posted November 15, 2013
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Book View: Fathomless

Short & Sweet: Fathomless is told from two points of view – Celia, who is the third of three triplets and can see the past – and Lo who is an underwater creature who used to be a girl and finds herself torn between Nadia and Lo in the book. Celia finds that for once her power of seeing into the past can help Lo, who helped her save Jude from drowning, a boy who was playing the guitar on the beach. Lo is torn between staying Lo or becoming Nadia and fighting against the thought that drowning the person […]

Posted November 12, 2013
Book Review, Book Views

Book Review: Sweetly

I loved Pearce's first novel in this series – Sisters Red – and could not wait to see what she came up in this one. Also, I love Hansel and Gretal and all the renditions of the tale and so I love to see what the modern tale would look like in a teen novel. I could not put this book down after I started it. I probably enjoyed this one more than Sisters Red and that book was awesome. There's this intrigue right away in the novel. A brother and sister come to town and are warned away […]

Posted March 5, 2012
Book Review

Book Review: Sisters Red

Sisters Red is an interesting blend of a fairy tale and something completely new. While it is not a retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood tale, it has many of the plot details that readers may expect to find: red hooded cape, a grandma, werewolves, and a hatchet. But that is about where the similarities end. The novel is set in a very unique way. The world that the sisters, Scarlett and Rosie, live in is reminiscent of a classic fairy tale, yet on the fringes of that world is our society. In essence, there are two worlds that […]

Posted May 6, 2010
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