Each installment in the Untouched serial series is more taut and exciting than the last! Breaking Triviality  was a fun adventure.  Sifting ...

Another great addition to the Games of Greed and Ruin series!  Of Pastries and Vengeance  focuses on one character from the first book, One ...

Not only do I write fairy tale retellings, I love to read them!  And I have reviewed quite a few of them over the years.  So here is a list ...

This is EXACTLY the level of romanceyness that I like in a book.  We did not spend several sentences every chapter or two rhapsodizing over ...

Book three in the Games of Greed and Ruin series does not disappoint! Of Masquerades and Fame  picks up the story of two contestants from O...

This is the second book in the Games of Greed and Ruin series -- the first was One Must Die , which Sarah Everest co-wrote with five other a...

My reread of the Inheritance series stalled out for a while with this book, I'm afraid.  I think it could have been about 200 pages shor...

My husband got me this book for my birthday, and it is a visual treat!  Oodles and oodles of drawings and paintings by Tolkien, mainly relat...

Prepare yourself for something very shocking. I like this retelling of Les Miserables  better than the original book by Victor Hugo. Don...

This book is an absolute hoot!  Also, it made me hungry, particularly for cheese.  Repeatedly.  I already eat a lot of cheese, but I definit...

All three of my teens got into the Inheritance Cycle last year, and they really want to read Murtagh , but I said I had to read it first (be...

Awwww, this was exactly what I wanted to read during the week between Christmas and New Year's.  Sweet, funny, upbeat, and cozy.  And wi...

I spent the whole of this book terribly worried for all my favorite characters that I'd grown to love dearly during Balefire ... and the...

I'm not sure I've ever read a novel co-written by six people before.  Not an anthology, but a single novel!  It's quite the ambi...

My dad died three weeks ago yesterday.  While traveling to Iowa for his funeral, I read Summon the Light  by Tor Thibeaux, a retelling of Sh...

This is a fun anthology!  I haven't really read loads of books involving mermaids or other undersea fantasy creatures, which made this c...

This book felt like what you'd get if Neil Gaiman and C. S. Lewis co-wrote a novel.  It's sometimes eerie and dark, sometimes just w...

This is such a fun book!  A fantasy version of the 1920s, with magical beings, speakeasies, jazz music, and so on.  AND it's a retelling...

Another excellent book in the Classic Retold series!  In fact, please don't throw things at me for this, but I actually liked Steal the ...

As you may have heard, I will be releasing an Ugly Duckling retelling called A Noble Companion  this fall as part of the Cornerstone Series ...