Fantasy

Review: The Hobbit // J.R.R Tolkien

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Genre: Fantasy, Adventure

Goodreads: The Hobbit

Author: J.R.R Tolkien

My Rating: 3.5                          3.5/5
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep to whisk him away on a journey “there and back again”. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.

“In a hole in the ground there once lived a hobbit.”

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Review: Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children #3) // Seanan McGuire

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Beneath the sugar sky

Genre: Fantasy, Adventure

Goodreads: Beneath the Sugar Sky

Author: Seanan McGuire

My Rating:

4

Beneath the Sugar Sky brings us back to Miss Eleanor’s Home for the Wayward Children where our characters, Kade, Christopher, Cora and Nadya come across a strange naked girl in their pond who claims to be looking for her mother, Onishi Sumi. How could it be that they were looking at the daughter of their dead friend who’s as old as she was when they buried her.

“There is kindness in the world, if we know how to look for it. If we never start denying it the door.”

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Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2) // Seanan McGuire

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xGenre: Urban/High Fantasy

Goodreads: Down Among The Sticks and Bones

Author: Seanan McGuire

My rating: 4

The heartwarming tale of Jack and Jill’s adventures in the Moors that exist in eternal twilight, in the pause between the lightning strike and the resurrection. They are a place of endless scientific experimentation, of monstrous beauty, and of terrible consequences.

“Time is the alchemy that turns compassion into love”

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Review: Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) // Seanan McGuire

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Genre: Urban Fantasy

Goodreads: Every Heart a Doorway

Author: Seanan McGuire

My Rating: 3.5

Nancy once opened the right door at the right time which led her to the Halls of Dead, a world of pomegranate groves and cool, eternal twilight. She’s now back into the real world, struggling to adjust to the reality of it all, she’s sent into a boarding school for ‘The Wayward Children’, surrounded by people who have had similar experiences as her, all trying to cope with the harsh reality.

“Hope means you keep on holding to things that won’t ever be so again, and so you bleed an inch at a time until there’s nothing left.”

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