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    Shine Your Icy Crown

    Shine your Icy Crown by Amanda Lovelace My rating: 3 of 5 stars Thank you to the publisher, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of Shine Your Icy Crown in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. The Gist I loved Lovelace’s first poetry series, Women Are Some Kind Of Magic and was excited for Shine Your Icy Crown of her newest series, You Are Your Own Fairy Tale. In fact, I was so excited that I didn’t even notice I had requested the audio version on NetGalley. I’m not the greatest admirer of audiobooks, so I had to find a printed…

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  • Book Reviews,  The 100 stories that shaped the world

    Cinderella

    Cinderella by Jacob Grimm My rating: 5 of 5 stars Part of BBC’s “100 Stories that shaped the World” list, I thought it would be fun to keep track of all the works I have read that are listed.In the summer of 2009 I took a classic children’s literature course, probably the worst course I have ever taken in university. My prof was in charge for both the online version of this course and the in-class version, so in true nature of her lazy personality she used the twice-weekly lecture time, which I had to suffer through, to tell us about her amazing life and her amazing husband, who does…

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    The Mermaid

    The Mermaid by Christina Henry My rating: 1 of 5 stars I have loved Disney’s The Little Mermaid ever since I was a young girl. I loved Henry’s Lost Boys, the first book of hers I have read and I couldn’t wait for her latest one that I thought would take a similar dark and eerie perspective on a classic fairy tale. Little did I know that The Mermaid was less horror and more romance than I had hoped and sadly left me wanting for so much more.The characters were too far removed to make any connections with as a reader. As complex as they at first appeared, their development…