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[Book Review] Misrule by Heather Walter & Fire And Flow Coffee Aurora
Misrule is the second book in the Malice Duology, a morally grey Sleeping Beauty retelling, and takes place a hundred years after Princess Aurora was cursed into a deep sleep. Alyce, once the Dark Grace, is now Mistress of the Dark Court, a haven for dark magic kind, and a new Fae war is in full swing.
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[Book Review] Malice by Heather Walter & Tuturu Rose Vanilla Ground Coffee
Two parts Sleeping Beauty and one part Cinderella, Malice is a richly detailed dark Sleeping Beauty retelling with a heroine who simultaneously manages to also be the villain. As the saying goes, villains are the heroes of their own stories and this is Alyce's villain origin story as told by Alyce.
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[Short Story Review] Doctor Who: The Bog Warrior By Cecelia Ahern & Exotic Earth Coffee Raise The Dead Blend
Doctor Who: The Bog Warrior is a Cinderella retelling with a classic Doctor Who twist.Princess Ash is a displaced royal forced into servitude by her evil stepmother, Queen Xenotime, who gained control of the kingdom after resurrecting the dead from the bog and ordering the former rulers killed. Prince Zircon is the foreign prince who wishes to wed Princess Ash, but the evil Queen stands between them with her own plans – wedding the prince to a royal bog woman as a way to appease the bog people.
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[Book Blitz] Fabled By Vanessa K. Eccles
Rowena thinks the Grimm’s infamous podcasts are simply another teen fad until she finds herself trapped in a land of nightmarish storybook characters. She tries desperately to flee Mezzanine and return home, but Dresdem, Mezzanine’s wicked monarch, plans to use Rowena’s access to her world to bring dark magic and absolute rule into Georgia and beyond.
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[Anthology Review] Grim Edited By Christine Johnson & CoffeeAM Black Forest Cake Flavored Coffee
All of the short stories in Grim are retellings of classic fairy tales – and not the sanitized, Disney versions, oh no, these stories stay true to the essence of the original tales, which are much darker, grittier, and, in some cases, bloodier. There’s a good selection here with some modern retellings, some set in the fairy tale settings of olde (in a kingdom far far away during an indeterminable time), and yet others set in a technologically advanced future with a definite Sci-Fi feeling. To give you an idea of the many different characters encountered throughout this collection, you will find psychics who live in a trailer park, a…
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[Novella Review] The Asylum For Fairy Tale Creatures By Sebastian Gregory & Raven’s Brew Coffee Wicked Wolf
The Asylum For Fairy Tale Creatures takes the already pretty dark Grimms’ fairy tales and twists them even more, making them so horrific it’s no wonder the characters go mad. The main story being told is that of the traumatic experiences of Blood Red Riding Hood and her companions and their subsequent incarceration into an asylum with other fairy tale characters. This journey is used as a thread, weaving together several other tales, those of the asylum’s other fairy tale inmates and employees (though it’s hard to tell which is which at times), making this sort of a short story collection as well.
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