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March 4, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: A Wicked Thing

It’s such a wicked thing that I spent most of my time cursing this book instead of appreciating it. A Wicked Thing is not exactly a retelling of Sleeping Beauty but more of a sequel telling us the ‘what-could-have-been’ after Princess Aurora woke up and decided that the Prince is not hot enough to be her true love. With A Wicked Thing, Thomas proved that there are really many ways on how to spin a yarn and what she did with this well-worn tale is definitely inventive and refreshing. I liked that the author didn’t the follow the usual fairy…

February 14, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

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…

February 1, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: The Serpent’s Curse

Forbidden Stone was amazing. I wish I could say the same thing for The Serpent’s Curse. Though it did not suffer the second book syndrome, I cannot say that it lived up to the stellar performance of its predecessor. True, there are still the globe-trotting adventures, codes to be deciphered, and a parent to be saved; everything was not just the same. The story felt long winded and I just couldn’t establish a connection to the story. Maybe it’s because some of the twists were predictable or that they were revealed in the wrong time or maybe the important reveals…

January 17, 2016July 14, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Mini-Reviews: The Wacky Families

I’m going to bonk anyone in the head who says that MG books are boring. My Uncle Gus, The Garden Gnome is a heartwarming tale about a boy, Leo, who has a crush on a ghost named Fra. And he’s really trying his best to make Fra’s ghostly life interesting. But the trouble is, Grizella, a beautiful witch and Leo’s classmate, is sort of crazy about him. So when Leo turned down her dance invitation, Leo’s life has suddenly gone to the dogs. See? Middle grade books are even crazier than YA and Adult books. So with Leo’s life going…