The Blist

Addie Laroux was born in the 1690's in France. Paradoxically, her very normal life led her to the most abnormal of circumstances. Facing...

If you aren't familiar with this series, it begins with Every Heart a Doorway, a novella about Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Child...

I must have felt like I needed a book hug, since I chose this one, which was described as a cozy read. I've heard of cozy mysteries and ...

This review is a bit reflective of my experience with this book - fragmented and maybe incomplete. I started Poison Study years ago on audio...

This is the backstory on Dorothy after she spent her first time in Oz wanting nothing more than to return to Kansas and then spent her time ...

I gotta tell you, this book seems more like a vehicle to get from book 2 to book 4. I don't really remember much about it except that Am...

This is the fourth and final installment of the Dorothy Must Die series. The first three books are dark in their own right, but this book fe...

This is an example of where the second installment is better than the first. If you aren't familiar with the Dorothy Must Die series of ...

"[My mother] told me that, whatever anyone at school said, a trailer was where I lived, not who I was. She told me that it was the best...

These are short, easy to read fantasy novels for children about a brother and sister who can travel anywhere a book is set via their magic ...

This was a book that my third grade teacher read to our class every day after we got in from lunch. I remember how we listened to my teach...

According to wikipedia, Anne Rice is an author of "gothic fiction, christian literature, and erotica." One of these things i...

In the words of the great John Cleese, "and now, for something completely different..." I don't know what I was expectin...

Part fantasy, part historical fiction, Shadow of Night is the second book in the All Soul's trilogy (and you really need to have read ...

Finally, a story about a circus that is cool. There aren't creepy clowns or abused animals in this circus. All of the food sold at thi...

If you're into Twilight or other angsty teenage supernatural type books, then you'll probably dig Beautiful Creatures. Now that I...

I'd seen the Disney cartoon, the Johnny Depp version, and a creepier version on TV back when I was younger...so I thought it appropriate...

Fairy tales are everywhere. I just got back from Disneyworld where Cinderella Castle stands prominently at center stage. And of course the...

This is the second book of the Song of Fire and Ice series written by Martin. You really can't just jump into these books without start...

With the recent popularity of HBO's new series A Game of Thrones, based on Martin's books, it came as a surprise to me that Martin...