The Iron King (2010) is just plain fun. Julie Kagawa takes sixteen-year-old Meghan Chase on a heroic journey through the lands of Faerie, where she meets a host of vivid characters and crosses unearthly landscapes in search of her missing kid brother. Along the way, she learns a dangerous secret about her parentage, gets caught up in a Faerie political struggle, and finds herself torn between two very different fey boys.
There’s an element of pastiche to The Iron King;
April 16th, 2010. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Julie Kagawa | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | no comments |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry has had a miserable summer. None of his friends have written to him and he wonders whether Hogwarts and the world of wizardry that he discovered the year before is just a dream. Four weeks before he is due to return to school he has a visit from Dobby the House Elf who warns him not to return to Hogwarts. And so we embark on another year at Hogwarts and another mystery — this time involving the Chamber of Secrets.
I enjoyed Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
April 16th, 2010. Amanda Rutter (guest), Terry Weyna, Kat Hooper and Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 3.5, 4, 5 | J.K. Rowling | Children | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |
Elizabeth Hand, who famously dealt with the Mother Goddess myth in Waking the Moon and the cult of Dionysus in Black Light, here tackles the subject of the fatal muse: the White Goddess, the lhiannan-sidhe, the Belle Dame Sans Merci.
Mortal Lovedrifts back and forth between several periods of history, between men throughout the years who have fallen under her seductive spell. Along the way there are Hand’s usual lush fruit-metaphors and insect-metaphors and jewel-metaphors,
April 16th, 2010. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Elizabeth Hand | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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