magickware | January 11, 2012
Young Roo is an expert hider. In fact, she prefers to be hidden and listening to the whispers of the earth around her. When her parents are killed in a drug deal gone bad Roo is taking into foster care soon to be sent on to an uncle she didn’t know she had. This uncle [...]
magickware | August 26, 2011
(for ages 12 and up) Twelve-year-old Malora is one of a small tribe of people. In the far future, humans are nearly extinct. Yet they eke a meager living from the brutal plains where they live. Much of their heritage becomes forgotten or lost in the struggle to survive. Though they live a rough life [...]
magickware | February 2, 2011
Think Sleeping Beauty on steroids. I enjoyed this book, although I was tempted at times to put it down because of overwritten prose. There was so much back story explaining the upcoming action that I often found myself thinking enough already – get to the action. In spite of the slow spots, the author weaves [...]
magickware | January 10, 2011
MG Book Review: The Unicorn’s Tale (Nathaniel Fludd: Beastologist, Book 4) by R. L. LaFevers (Author), Kelly Murphy (Illustrator) This book will be released in April 2011. I received an electronic copy from the publisher for review. I have not read the first three books of the series so I’m coming into the story in [...]
magickware | January 10, 2011
I received an ARC of this book as a prize. The subject matter is not one I’d search out on my own. I am just not that into werewolves, vampires and other creepy soulless things. That aside, this book kept me up late reading it. Scarlett and Rosie March are sisters, Scarlett being the elder [...]
magickware | January 3, 2011
Zara is afraid. Not in the sense that she is worried about whether the people at her new school will like her, but in the how many phobias can she name and add to her list of fears, afraid. Emotionally numb after the death of her beloved stepfather, she finds herself sent off to live [...]
magickware | November 26, 2009
If you are a fan of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, you’ll fall in love with this book. Even readers who are not fans of old Bill’s works will be drawn into he improbable world where Titania and Oberon are real beings. As the days draw close to Samhain, the door between the world of [...]
magickware | October 29, 2009
The story opens with an image of 3 ladies. The accompanying text says “Ladies of light and Ladies of darkness…” Both the text and imagery are things that a Pagan child can identify with. The end of the opening page has the line “this is a prayer for a blueberry girl.” While Pagans don’t specifically [...]
magickware | February 19, 2008
Priestess of the Forest: A Druid Journey by Ellen Evert Hopman $18.95 US $21.95 CAN ISBN13 978-0-7387-1262-8 360 pages Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. www.llewellyn.com A masterful written, fictional, love story based in third-century Ireland, this book animates the basic life style of the ancient Celts. Penned along the same lines as The Mists of Avalon by [...]
magickware | September 20, 2006
Book Of Doom by John Peel; Llewellyn Worldwide Book Ten of Diadem Worlds of Magic got off to a slow and rocky start. Since this was the first time I had read a book from this series, I was at a bit of a loss as to who the good guys and who the bad [...]