Category: Fiction Reviews

Meg Langslow has a hectic summer ahead of her in Murder with Peacocks, and things are just about to get even more wild. Taking the summer off from her job of being a blacksmith, Meg …

The first thing you’ll notice on opening The Tale of Shikanoko: Emperor of the Eight Islands is the long list of characters and character names. It is, at this first glance, intimidating. It need not …

Louisiana Longshot by Jana Deleon starts with a heroine who has a price on her head. Fortune Redding (a nickname short for “Soldier of Fortune”) has a price on her head. $1 million for her …

Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood by Liesl Shurtliff retells “Little Red Riding Hood” as a tale of friendship, mistakes, and accepting imperfection. Red is the granddaughter of the Witch of the Woods; …

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one of those books that every lover of fantasy and science fiction should read, if only for the echoes that continue to sound through both genres. There are other good …

Patricia McKillip has done it again. Kingfisher, her latest novel, is another finely-crafted, multi-layered novel told in the author’s signature poetic style. This time, she turns to the Arthurian legend and, loosely, the story of …

Serpents in Eden is another excellent entry in the British Library Crime Classic series. Collecting short stories from around a fifty year time span, the book demonstrates what a perfect place the country is for …

Charmed is the second book in Jen Calonita’s Fairy Tale Reform School series. Following the events of Flunked, Gilly Cobbler is famous for defeating the Alva, the Wicked One who cursed Sleeping Beauty. Her family’s …

Death on the Riviera by John Bude is a multi-branched mystery that starts out as a search for a counterfeit money maker, extends to the inhabitants of a villa in Riviera, and spawns a murder …

Axelle got into modeling by mistake. She stays because there are mysteries to solve, and she can work best if she is a model undercover. Model Undercover: London finds her in her home territory, London, …