Title: Jaejoong Vampire Sketch Pairings: none Rating: PG-13 Warnings: Not too anatomically accurate TT.TT Genre: Fantasy...? A/N: Jaejoong? not mine. It's twilight mania -- and a request from my good Romanian friend Lelis -- that got me doing this. Aish be gentle...
Title: Blood-Stained Wonderland Genre: Fantasy/Horror Type: Short Story Word Count: 1,530 Rating/Warnings: 12A for Dark Themes and Mild Horror Summary: A short story based on some of the characters... I felt my eyes drawn to the pages of the open book and there before me was a kindly old man with a white beard and a misshapen green hat resting atop his head, looking up at me with a faint smile.
Series: The Brimstone Network Publisher: Aladdin, 2008 Genre: Fantasy Sub-genre: Urban fantasy, YA Read the full (spoiler-free) review here! I have to say, I really enjoyed the story Sniegoski... Odds are pretty good I'll be checking it out, because well, I'm a sucker for gritty supernatural stories and urban fantasy, especially when they stand out from the standard as much as this one did
Series: The Brimstone Network Publisher: Aladdin, 2008 Genre: Fantasy Sub-genre: Urban fantasy, YA Rating: 3 1/2 pints of blood The Brimstone Network looks like a comic book. Which is actually... Odds are pretty good I'll be checking it out, because well, I'm a sucker for gritty supernaturalstories and urban fantasy, especially when they stand out from the standard as much as this one did
Prompt: 110 New Wings, 129 Demons or men, 200 a story of creation, 300 the sorrow of creation Universe: original (Daeron!book) Genre(s): Fantasy, SupernaturalRating: PG Warnings: None Word Count: somewhere...their worship for all eternity, lest the evil return and destroy them utterly. It was in this way that the world prospered and civilisation grew. -Anonymous a retelling of the creation of the gods
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Cathrynne M. Valente 483 pages (trade paperback) Genre: Fiction/Fantasy This book took me SO LONG to finish. I had heard continual buzz throughout the F/SF...I liked Kushner's better than Valente's). Final verdict: so confusing but equally so fascinating. Do give Valente at least half the book to prove herself--the scales tipped at around 1/3 for me
KAMIKAZE KAITOU JEANNE By: Arina Tanemura Spoilers Behind the Cut: Mild Summary: Sixteen-year-old Kusakabe Maron is the reincarnation of Jeanne D'Arc (Joan of Arc). She, with her angel Fin... Rating: 3/3 Final Words: I started the first volume of Full Moon O Sagashite, another work by Tanemura. This mangaka makes shoujo really appealing to the action packed shounen loving likes of me. XD
ALOSHA By: Christopher Pike SpoilersBehind the Cut: Mild Summary: Everyone, at some point in life, dreams that they are secretly a king or queen or wizard of a far-off land. Someday their true... Hopefully that's an even more engaging readable than this! Rating: 2/3 Final Words: I really need to catch up on updating this place. There are many more readables that need to be reviewed!
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 1000 years ago the 'Hero of Ages' was supposed to save the world. Instead, he turned into a Palpatine-esq Evil God Emperor. As a result, the world is a dark and terrible...prestigious writing assignment. I'm looking forward to reading the second book in the trilogy, and if you are in the market for some well written fantasy that doesn't read like a D&D game, check this guy out