Roshani Chokshi’s debut YA novel is bloodthirsty, strange, fragile, wonderful, and complex, integrating Indian folklore alongside fantastical elements in a thrilling read.
Book review: The Star-Touched Queen, Roshani Chokshi
Tag: retellings
Book review: The Steep and Thorny Way, Cat Winters
Disclosure: This review is based upon a copy provided by the publisher. No other consideration was offered. Hamlet is probably one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays, though it’s not in strict point of fact my favourite — I’m a fan of The Tempest and Much Ado if I have my druthers. But Hamlet has become an extremely important part of the Western […]
Book Review: The Forbidden Wish, Jessica Khoury
Disclosure: This review is based upon a copy provided by the publisher. No other consideration was offered. The story of Aladdin and his lamp is perhaps one of the most well-known myths attributed to the 1,001 Nights, although in fact the story doesn’t appear in original Middle Eastern versions of the story collection, and it […]
Book review: A Song for Ella Grey, David Almond
Disclosure: This review is based upon a copy of the book provided by the publisher. No other consideration was offered, although it (the book, not the publisher) did give me a vicious paper cut. Just when I think we’re done with retellings, another one gleefully crops up, and I’m not really complaining — all stories […]
Book review: About A Girl, by Sarah McCarry
The conclusion to Sarah McCarry’s fantastic Metamorphoses Trilogy came out in July, and while I am bitter that I won’t get to play with these characters again, I’m really excited to see what she comes out with next, so it’s really more of a bittersweet sensation. Appropriate for this series, which has a very bittersweet […]
Book review: Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, April Genevieve Tucholke, Ed.
Disclosure: This review is based upon a copy provided by the publisher. No other consideration was offered. When I pulled Slasher Girls & Monster Boys out of my mailbox, I gave an involuntary squeak of excitement. It features some of my favourite YA authors, spanning those who work in a variety of genres including, of course, horror, […]
Book review: The Wrath & the Dawn, Reneé Ahdieh
Disclosure: This review is based on a copy provided by the publisher. Someone at Penguin clearly reads my thoughts because their office kindly sent this book along at precisely the moment I was wanting to read it, thanks to the buzz building up around the title. I was promised a fascinating and compelling retelling of an […]
Book review: Sparrow Hill Road, Seanan McGuire
We all know that I have a fascination for dead things that some people think borders on the inordinate. I also love fiction featuring death-related subjects. And I particularly adore dark humour. Which would be why I love books like Six Feet Over It, and television series like Dead Like Me. They’re funny. They’re also about death and dying, but […]
Book Review: Stitching Snow, by R. C. Lewis
As we know, I adore fairytale retellings, and I’m pretty stoked that they’re becoming a bigger and bigger thing right now, especially in the YA world. There’s much to explore in these tales, passed down and tweaked and expanded and shrunk over generations as our tastes, tolerances, and beliefs change. I love it when writers […]
Seeing Home Through the Lens of Pop Culture
Last year, I started watching, and greatly enjoying, Gracepoint, the US remake of Broadchurch. Usually I don’t much fancy remakes, as the original is often much better, and it just seems kind of pointless to water a show down to make it fit into the US television box. However, in this case, I found myself making an exception, for […]