The most infamous- though maybe not truest- hallmark of great literature is the ease with which it displaces biology textbooks and math worksheets as the overachieving highschooler’s pocketed tome of choice. Flash cards are crumpled from ...read more
The Fairytale Trilogy was an amazing set of stories. Marianne and Robin had many disputes and challenges, but they managed to get past them all. I love the idea of a paperweight that could turn into a dragon. I thought it was unusual that the fairies ...read more
The author has spun a clever retelling of favorite classics, incorporating three generations of traditional characters at times (Geppetto, Pinocchio, and Crescenzo). But while the clever renaming of certain characters helps the reader see them in a ...read more
Welcome to the wonder-filled world of the Fairytale Trilogy, where magic is far more than smoke and mirrors . . . The three novels in this book -- Fairytale, The Emperor's Realm, and The Three Crowns -- chronicle the adventures of Marianne and her ...read more
The first 487 pages of this book were great and, at a nocturnal hour far too late to admit, I still lay ensnared in its laugh-out-loud prose. This is no accomplishment to be taken lightly; I am a high schooler, against my better judgment, enrolled in ...read more
This book was so good. With a great undercurrent of danger and suspense and romance this book was a perfect historical fiction novel in my opinion. Using two small town girls from Ohio as some of the main characters was such a glorious way to write ...read more
