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269 items found for "shadow and herbs I gather"

  • Book Review: Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood

    Although nothing can save Leto from her fate, she magically survives her ordeal and finds herself transformed Underwood is not attempting to retell a mythic tale, but she is asking her readers to consider a key book falls short of transforming the content of her source material. Her plot also lacks convincing details about the daily life and customs in Ancient Greece. You can find the book here.

  • Review by Kelly Jarvis: The Witches of Bone Hill by Ava Morgyn

    She has been left by her cheating husband and is in debt due to his nefarious business dealings when a call from her sister Eustace, who she has not seen for five years, informs her that the siblings have reveal the truth of the Bone Hill family and leave Cordelia seeking revenge on those who have wronged her You can find it here. Her work has appeared in Eternal Haunted Summer, Blue Heron Review, Forget-Me-Not Press, Mermaids Monthly

  • Review by Madeline Mertz: Conversations with the Tarot

    DeBlassie describes how she spent seventy-eight weeks writing a seventy-eight word description of her Her practice of writing a word for every card for seventy eight weeks straight deepened her respect and understanding of the tarot and she takes the reader right along on a journey with her. insights on the card and how its representation applies to her life. You can find a copy HERE.

  • Review by Kelly Jarvis: What Monstrous Gods by Rosamund Hodge

    Lia succeeds in her task early on in the novel and is surprised when the newly awakened queen betroths her to Prince Arauun in recompense for her service to the kingdom. Lia has pledged herself to the convent that raised her, hoping to become a nun, but a little known rule that those born with magic power must marry into the royal family or die thwarts her life plan. You can find it here.

  • Review by Kelly Jarvis: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

    Effy Sayre is a young woman who has suffered trauma in her life. She is a voracious reader with a vivid imagination, and her real life visions of the Fairy King she reads about earn her the label of being mentally unstable. She is given pills to keep the visions away and help her sleep, and because women in her world are not You can find the book here.

  • Review by Lissa Sloan: Not a Princess, (But) Yes, There Was a Pea & Other Tales to Foment Revolution by Rebecca Buchanan

    But Rebecca Buchanan takes reversal to a whole new level in her searing poetry collection Not a Princess Like her titular poem, Buchanan’s other chosen tales will be familiar to most readers, making her pointed Her voice is sharp, authentic, and filled with hope, and her words never miss their mark. You can find it here. Her fairy tale poems and short stories appear in The Fairy Tale Magazine, Niteblade Magazine, Corvid

  • A Review: A Poetry Collection that Casts a Spell

    Often, as is the case with her series of poems on Jorinda and Joringel, Parent presents fairy tale plots Using words and images that both burn and soothe, Parent leads her readers to confront the beauty and The writing in Parent’s collection will cast a spell over readers as they revel in her poetic potions You can find Every Poem a Potion, Every Spell a Song HERE. She lives, happily ever after, with her husband and three sons in a house filled with fairy tale books

  • Review by Kelly Jarvis: The Witch is Back by Sophie H. Morgan

    low-ranking witch with plant magic, left the witch community of New Orleans after being abandoned by her When Bastian returns after several years and tells Emma he needs her to marry him to prevent a negative You can learn more about the book here. Her work has appeared in Eternal Haunted Summer, Blue Heron Review, Forget-Me-Not Press, Mermaids Monthly

  • Book Review: The Briars by Stephanie Parent

    fascinating narrative that blends mystery, ghost legends, folk lore, fairy tale, poetry, and sexuality in her The book follows the experiences of Claire and her friends who are submissives and dominatrixes in a Parent artfully reveals the backgrounds of her characters, illustrating how their tumultuous pasts have She gives her readers a touching queer love story alongside a riveting, ghostly mystery. You can find the book here.

  • Book Review: American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

    Penelope takes a leave from teaching and moves to Los Angeles to help adapt her book into an action film Found by an infertile couple who pay to have her tail split into legs so she can be raised as a human , Sylvia has endured a lifetime of pain due to her environment. American mermaid starts on land and journeys to find her power in the sea. You can order American Mermaid here.

  • Book Review: Chinese Cinderella, Fairy Godfathers & Beastly Beauty - by Melissa Yuan-Innes

    This collection is the second work in her series Spellbinding Speculative Fiction, and it will bring Yuan-Innes’ humor and medical knowledge shine through her narratives, but my favorite pieces, first published “Death and the Mother”, a retelling of “Snow White”, contemplates the depth of a mother’s love for her You can find a copy of the book HERE. She lives, happily ever after, with her husband and three sons in a house filled with fairy tale books

  • Throwback Thursday: Seamus by E.K. Lekman

    The two of them had been right here all those years ago, beneath this very canopy of leaves. Lekman lives in Celebration, Florida with her two young daughters.

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