Book Review: Shadow Weaver

This is my second Marcy Kate Conolly book and I enjoyed this more than the other one.  The story is what the premise promised. We have Emmeline who is gifted with shadow weaving.  She excels at it. She loves it. She acknowledges it. Only that her parents and the people surrounding her have grown wary about her power as the years went by. Then the day came when her parents couldn’t take it any longer and desired to send her away to get cured. So Emmeline ran and took refuge in the woods wherein she met a lovely family whose…

Book Review: Monstrous

Monstrous has all the ingredients to be an amazing book but sadly, the result was less than delicious.  We have an amnesiac heroine, Kymera, who basically came back from the dead and found herself only functional due to the fact that she’s a patchwork of different animal parts put together.  This fact didn’t bother her, however, for she is naïve and pure at heart. All she ever wanted is to put her new capabilities to good use.  Good use means saving the kingdom of Bryre and its young girls from an evil wizard, Barnabas.  As I’ve said, Monstrous knew where…