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ARC Review: Coral by Sara Ella
Thank you to the publisher for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own. Oh, how I wanted to enjoy this book. I had been saving this one for a while, waiting until the right mood took me, waiting until I was ready to fully immerse myself in the world of a very special retelling…essentially A Little Mermaid retelling. I love a retelling, but this just fell flat for me and I can’t tell you just how disappointed I am that this was the case. I was grateful that the author/publisher inserted a trigger warning at the front…
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Review: Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro & Cornelia Funke
The magic and wonder of Pan’s Labyrinth somehow escaped me the first time it came out and I have no idea how?! If you think that this is a perfect, child friendly happy ever after fairy tale you are in for a rather nasty shock. I think it’s always a risky business turning film into novel, but this dark fantasy ticks all my gothic needs in one full swoop. Ophelia is a heroine that gives us all the feels, she is a character that we can relate to in one way or another. She has that childhood naivety that we all had only to have it crushed from blow after…
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Stain by A.G Howard
Once upon a nightmare, a princess was born in the kingdom of perpetual daylight-a fine-boned babe who killed her queenly mother upon her entrance to the world A.G. Howard I thought this was a very good take on the regular fairytale story with some dark gothic drama that had you questioning whether everything was as it first seemed. Lyra (the heroine) is a princess whom is named in a prophecy to be married to the Prince Vesper. The Prophecy foretells the two coming together to repair the two broken kingdoms and bringing balance once more to the Day kingdom, Eldoria and the night Kingdom, Nazereth. Lyra, doesnt have the capability…
