Kings, Princes, Sheiks, Chiefs

Review: Winter’s Passage (Iron Fey, Book 1.5) by Julie Kagawa

by Keira 08.09.2011

Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey Series is addicting, delicious, and outstanding. While Winter’s Passage is a short novella it packs a punchy story. It opens with Ash coming to collect on Meghan’s promise from Iron King. She asks to see how Puck is doing before going with him to Tir na Nog and the Winter Court. [...]

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Review: The Iron Daughter (Iron Fey, Book 2) by Julie Kagawa

by Keira 08.07.2011

Kagawa’s storytelling and world-building keeps getting better and better. The Iron Daughter is book two in the Iron Fey series and packs a delicious punch. I can tell you upfront that I can hardly wait for Iron Queen, the third and final installment to the trilogy. I wholeheartedly recommend everybody to read it, the series [...]

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Review: The Iron King (Iron Fey, Book 1) by Julie Kagawa

by Keira 08.02.2011

I am in love with the Iron King by Julie Kagawa. Her novel is full of sumptuousness. Its details and world building are lavish and exciting. Her characters draw you in like Satyr pulls in unsuspecting humans to dance until they collapse from exhaustion, except in Kagawa’s case you come out happy and anticipating the [...]

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Researching the Sheikh – Your Help Wanted!

by Keira 07.16.2011

by Cathy Jean and Trysh Travis, guest bloggers and romance researchers Greetings, romance readers! We are two researchers at the University of Florida and we want to get your opinions about the romances you read—especially if you love sheikh novels. Our research suggests that there are a lot of misconceptions out there about these books [...]

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Review: The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick

by Keira 06.28.2011

The Kingmaking is book one of the Pendragon Banner Trilogy by Helen Hollick. In one sentence this book is about Arthur growing from boyhood to manhood, from untried to experienced, from soldier to king. He is shaped by his times, loving women and drink freely and openly. It gets him into trouble more than once [...]

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Review: Summer’s Crossing (Iron Fey, Book 3.5) by Julie Kagawa

by Keira 06.24.2011

Summary: Summer’s Crossing is the first book in the Iron Fey series to not feature Meghan Chase as the narrator. It is told from Puck’s perspective. The story is a short novella to whet appetites between The Iron Queen and the release of The Iron Knight. Ash must find Grimalkin in order to start his [...]

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Review: Knight’s Fork by Rowena Cherry

by Keira 06.04.2011

Today I am reviewing Knight’s Fork by Rowena Cherry. This is my first ARC (advance review copy; official book release is September 30, 2008) and I eagerly read the whole novel in two days! Knight’s Fork is just one novel in the futuristic set series about the Great Djinn race. Knight’s Fork contains all the [...]

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Review: Of Two Minds by Carol Matas and Perry Nodelman

by Keira 05.23.2011

Of Two Minds is a very deep book for kids. As an adult how it ends leads to quite an interesting train of thought I’m not sure young children will catch. This is my second time reading it. I remembered enjoying it thoroughly when I read it back in middle school. I can’t honestly say [...]