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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 14, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: Villain Keeper

Villain Keeper is one of those books that I really wanted to shove down people’s faces and rave about. But sadly, it didn’t just reach that I-am-gonna-build-a-hype-train-around-this-book status. Villain Keeper is about a young eighth-born prince, Prince Caden, of the magical Kingdom of Razzon who got transported to modern day America (North Carolina) due to some mysterious circumstance. He has two sidekicks, a prodigy sorceress who’s also a childhood friend and a boy whom Caden met after arriving in modern day America. These two sidekicks are called Brynne and Tito, respectively. Villain Keeper’s story starts rolling upon Caden’s and Brynne’s…

January 13, 2016July 13, 2024Snoozly KitsuneLeave a Comment

Book Review: The Rogue Knight

I am not sure if I am outgrowing Middle Grade books or Brandon Mull is losing his touch. I can still remember how the Fablehaven series (my first Brandon Mull series) hooked me to the point that I sacrificed many a good night’s sleep just to finish the five books as soon as possible. And after that, find myself rereading the whole series after two months. That didn’t happen to me with the Five Kingdoms series. Sky Raiders, the first book of Five Kingdoms, was just OKAY. Not good, not bad either. There were interesting stuff—like the shaping abilities and…