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What do readers say about The Child Thief?
subtle dark humour peter pan’s adventures engrossing and disturbing atypical fairy taleThe acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief-a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faer... More details on The Child Thief
In a small corner of Prospect Park, in the borough of Brooklyn, New York, a thief lay hidden in the trees. This thief wasn’t searching for an unattended purse, cell phone, or camera. This thief was lo...
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What do readers say about The Bloody Chamber?
beautiful, detailed description beautiful, elaborate, highly perfumed dark and sensual classic carter styleAngela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber-which inc... More details on The Bloody Chamber
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What do readers say about Lost Boy?
the ending was unexpected boring and predictable 4. 5/5 flow wonderfully written! engaging. spell-bindingFrom the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook-a tale about Peter Pan and the friend who became his nemesis, a nemesis who may not be the blackhearted villain Peter says he is…
There is one version of my story t... More details on Lost Boy
Sometimes I dreamed of blood. The blood on my hands and the empty eyes in a white-and-grey face. It wasn’t my blood, or blood I’d spilled—though there was plenty of that to go around. It was her blood...
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What do readers say about The Call?
smooth sharp writing stand alone work first in a series fantastic cover artThousands of years ago, humans banished the Sidhe fairy race to another dimension. The beautiful, terrible Sidhe have stewed in a land of horrors ever since, plotting their revenge... and now their day has come.
Fourteen year-old Nessa lives in a wor... More details on The Call
On her tenth birthday Nessa overhears an argument in her parents’ bedroom. She knows nothing about the Three Minutes yet. How could she? The whole of society is working to keep its children innocent. ...
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What do readers say about The Seventh Bride?
fantasy novel/fairy tale an original fairytale fairy tale style quite compulsive readingYoung Rhea is a miller's daughter of low birth, so she is understandably surprised when a mysterious nobleman, Lord Crevan, shows up on her doorstep and proposes marriage. Since commoners don't turn down lords-no matter how sinister they may seem-Rhe... More details on The Seventh Bride
Her father said that she had been named after a great and powerful goddess of the old days, the queen of all the gods, but in that country at that time, there weren’t many books about gods. There were...
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What do readers say about The Ocean at the End of the Lane?
love, sacrifice, and magic how visual it is fairy tale horror straightforward but never boringLocus Award
A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman's first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.
This bewit... More details on The Ocean at the End of the Lane
There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the centre of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. ...
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What do readers say about The Book of Lost Things?
adult dark fantasy strange little book lovely and flowing simple, yet eloquentHigh in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imaginat... More details on The Book of Lost Things
He had, in truth, been losing her for a very long time. The disease that was killing her was a creeping, cowardly thing, a sickness that ate away at her from the inside, slowly consuming the light wit...
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What do readers say about The Hazel Wood?
dark and atmospheric atmospheric and detailed polished and picture-perfect moist forest horror novelsWelcome to Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood-the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about!
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biti... More details on The Hazel Wood
Althea Proserpine is raising her daughter on fairy tales. Once upon a time she was a girl named Anna Parks, one of the legion of midcentury dreamers who came to Manhattan with their hopes tucked into ...
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What do readers say about Heart's Blood?
cold gothic atmosphere a great read young adult fantasy warm and believable charactersNational bestselling author Juliet Marillier revisits the classic fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast in this "engaging Gaelic fantasy romance staring two fascinating reluctant souls"(Genre Go Round Reviews).
Whistling Tor is a place of secrets, a my... More details on Heart's Blood
Dusk was falling, and mist was closing in over a landscape curiously devoid of features. Apart from low clumps of grass, all I could see nearby was an ancient marker stone whose inscription was obscur...
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What do readers say about The Buried Giant?
slow and overwritten clear and beautiful high arthurian fantasy old english quest book*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*
The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin.
The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain ... More details on The Buried Giant
You would have searched a long time for the sort of winding lane or tranquil meadow for which England later became celebrated. There were instead miles of desolate, uncultivated land; here and there r...
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