The Seven Towers by Patricia C. Wrede I was strangely dissatisfied by The Seven Towers but really couldn’t figure out what exactly was the problem until I sat down to write the review. I normally start with a plot summary, and I couldn’t figure out how to summarize the story. A lot of stuff happens, […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 2.5 | Patricia C. Wrede | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede Princess Cimorene is tired of embroidery, etiquette, dancing, and protocol classes. She wants to take Latin, fencing, magic, and cooking lessons instead. But, that’s just “not done.” Princesses are supposed to be beautiful, submissive and, preferably, in distress. They’re supposed to wait for a handsome prince to rescue […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 5 | Patricia C. Wrede | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Searching for Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede It’s been more than 5 years since I read Dealing with Dragons, the first book in Patricia C. Wrede’s ENCHANTED FOREST CHRONICLES. I loved the way the story, written in 1990, ridiculed and subverted the princess stereotype. It stars Cimorene, a teenage princess who runs away to avoid […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Patricia C. Wrede | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Calling on Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede Warning: Contains spoilers for previous books in this series: Dealing with Dragons and Searching for Dragons. Calling on Dragons is the third book in Patricia C. Wrede’s ENCHANTED FOREST CHRONICLES series for young readers. I loved the first book, Dealing with Dragons, for its fun quirky plot, but […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 2 | Patricia C. Wrede | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | | 4 comments |
Talking to Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede Talking to Dragons is the fourth and final book in Patricia C. Wrede’s ENCHANTED FOREST CHRONICLES, though it was actually the first book in the series to be published (1985). Wrede wrote the later three books (Dealing with Dragons, Searching for Dragons, Calling on Dragons) as prequels and […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 2.5 | Patricia C. Wrede | Audio, Children | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Sorcery and Cecelia (The Enchanted Chocolate Pot) by Patricia C. Wrede To best understand Sorcery and Cecelia one has to first flick to the back of the book in order to read the authors’ afterword in which they explain the format and history of their story. After hearing of a game called “The Letter Game,” […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher and Tadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Caroline Stevermer, Patricia C. Wrede | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The Grand Tour by Patricia C. Wrede We last saw the cousins Cecelia and Kate at the conclusion of Sorcery and Cecelia:The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, in which they had foiled a devious plot and found true love with their new husbands, Thomas Schofield and James Tartleton. The story was unique because it was told in […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Caroline Stevermer, Patricia C. Wrede | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede Imagine what the settling of the West would have been like if, along with hunger, drought, and malaria, the settlers also had to deal with dragons. Patricia Wrede’s Thirteenth Child is a sort of a magical version of Little House on the Prairie. Eff is the titular thirteenth child, […]
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Across the Great Barrier by Patricia C. Wrede Eff is back in this alternative magical history of the settling of the West. After the encounter with the mirror bugs that almost destroyed most of the settlements across the Great Barrier and came close to killing Eff’s brother and father, Eff gets hired on to a […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 4.5 | Patricia C. Wrede | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Issue 44 of Apex Magazine leads off with “Trixie and the Pandas of Dread” by Eugie Foster. It would take a hard heart to resist a story that starts like this: “Trixie got out of her cherry-red godmobile and waved away the flitting cherubim waiting to bear her to her sedan chair.” In the world […]
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Black Thorn, White Rose edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling Black Thorn, White Rose is the second in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling‘s series of adult fairy-tale anthologies. I’d have to say that this is my favorite of the bunch; most of the volumes are good, but this one has so many wonderful stories that […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 5 | Ellen Datlow, Midori Snyder, Patricia C. Wrede, Peter Straub, Roger Zelazny, Terri Windling | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Lyra — (1982-1997) Young adult. Publisher: In Alkyra, children’s tales are told of a time long past when humankind shared the land with folk who had magic in their blood and bones: the small, fierce Wyrd of the forests; the proud Shee in their mountains citadel carved of ice-white rock; and the shimmering Neira of […]
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