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Title: Wendy Darling: Stars
Author: Colleen Oakes
Series: Wendy Darling #1
Publication: October 13th 2015 by SparkPress
Genre: Young Adult ~ Retelling ~ Fantasy
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Rating: 3/5
From the Best-Selling Author of Queen of Hearts comes a dark and mesmerizing twist on the beloved Children's Classic, Peter Pan.
Wendy Darling has a perfectly agreeable life with her parents and brothers in wealthy London, as well as a budding romance with Booth, the neighborhood bookseller’s son. But while their parents are at a ball, the charmingly beautiful Peter Pan comes to the Darling children’s nursery and—dazzled by this flying boy with god-like powers—they follow him out of the window and straight on to morning, to Neverland, a intoxicating island of feral freedom.
As time passes in Neverland, Wendy realizes that this Lost Boy’s paradise of turquoise seas, mermaids, and pirates holds terrible secrets rooted in blood and greed. As Peter’s grasp on her heart tightens, she struggles to remember where she came from—and begins to suspect that this island of dreams, and the boy who desires her—have the potential to transform into an everlasting nightmare.
Wendy Darling took me by surprise. I had a hard time rating this book because it felt somewhere between three and four stars. It was quite good but it took me a while to start getting into the book and really liking it. It actually wasn't until the last couple of chapters that I really started getting invested with the story and Wendy.
I've read and seen lots of retellings around Peter Pan and Neverland. Most retellings don't really portrait her as a nice person so that's one way this book makes it unique. The story starts out pretty much the same as the classic tale of Peter Pan we all know with small changes here and there but also some bigger ones that make it a true retelling.
Like I said before, for most of the book I wasn't liking it all that much at first. It had a very strong prologue but it went a little downhill from there. I guess there wasn't much happening and I was getting a wee bit bored. Also, at that point I wasn't liking Wendy all that much. She's nice and all but that's where it stopped for me.
But then the story started getting quite chilling when Peter shows his true colors to Wendy. I thought this was actually a really great turn of events, even though it felt all pretty dark. But it was there that I started caring much more for Wendy and realizing how she truly is a great heroine.
Wendy's brother Michael was adorable but John annoyed the hell out of me. I get that being in Neverland changes people, but he was so disrespectful towards his sister. The Lost Boys were something else. I really liked some of them very much. Especially Abbott. He was a character I wanted to learn more about. And there was Tink. I'm not sure what to say about her except that I really felt sorry for what Peter made her go through and how he treated her.
The writing was absolutely wonderful. I really have nothing negative to say about that. It was at times really beautiful and even lyrical. Basically perfect for a Neverland story. And that ending! Holy crap, I need the sequel right now! So, yeah, be prepared for a cliffhanger!
About the Author:
Colleen Oakes is the author of the Elly in Bloom Series and the upcoming YA fantasy Queen of Hearts Saga (Harper Collins Summer 2016.) She lives in North Denver with her husband and son. When not writing, Colleen enjoys swimming, traveling, and immersing herself in nerdy pop culture. She is currently at work on the final Elly novel and another YA fantasy series called Wendy Darling (Sparkpress, October 2015.)
Title: A Whole New World
Author: Liz Braswell
Series: A Twisted Tale #1
Publication: September 1st 2015 by Disney Press
Genre: Young Adult ~ Fantasy ~ Retelling
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Rating: 1/5
Review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.
Welcome to a new YA series that reimagines classic Disney stories in surprising new ways. Each book asks the question: What if one key moment from a familiar Disney film was changed? This dark and daring version of Aladdin twists the original story with the question: What if Jafar was the first one to summon the Genie?
When Jafar steals the Genie’s lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish.To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed Princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war.
What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. A princess becomes a revolutionary. And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again.
I didn't like A Whole New World at all. I'll even go so far as to say that it's one of the worst books I have read this year so far. It really pains me to say so but this book was really a disappointment.
A huge part of this book was just like the movie. Maybe that isn't so bad but I was just so bored by it. Once the author started twisting the story it was less predictable but equally boring to me. The thing I disliked the most was the writing. It wasn't good at all. It was way too colorless and lacked some kind of depth.
The characters were colorless as well. Especially Aladdin and Jasmine. The conversations between them didn't feel natural and I felt myself not wanting to read about them at all. At this point I was more interested in reading about Jafar, to be honest. At least there was a little bit of excitement with him because he's so evil. Really, I didn't enjoy reading about any of the characters.
I guess it's a good concept, reimagining classic Disney stories but it could've been written better, I think, and without making the characters so flat and uninteresting. So yeah, this book wasn't the right one for me, per se. I do hope others will enjoy it more than I did but I wouldn't recommend it.
About the Author:
Full time author, under the name Tracy Lynn. And Celia Thomson. And J. B. Stephens. And E.J. Braswell. But mainly Tracy Lynn.
Her series "The Nine Lives of Chloe King" has been adapted into a TV show by ABC Family.
Title: Trapped by a Song
Author: Nicole Pouchet
Publication: March 24th 2015 by Decadent Publishing Company, LLC
Genre: Adult ~ Paranormal Romance
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Rating: 3/5
If Detective Jori Anzoli has to do one more telepathic reading for the Las Vegas Police Department, her para-capabilities may fry out. That doesn’t matter when she’s called in to help find eight men who mysteriously went missing. The case escalates quickly. Clairvoyants in the department are scared to touch it, her brother becomes the ninth missing man, and the Paranormal Investigative Agency (PIA) sends a distractingly handsome agent who hassles her every step of the way.
Agent Del Moore is on a mission to find the PIA’s missing biomedical weapons engineer. A retro-cognizant, Del is used to avoiding human contact unless the job demands it. The less intrusive knowledge he has about others, the better. But a brush with the aloof Detective Jori may change his mind. He can’t ignore her warm essence, especially when she impossibly summons him into her dream.
As mounting clues lead Jori and Del to go deep undercover into a Nevada brothel, an ancient succubus preys on every living soul within, placing Jori and Del on separate hallucinogenic paths of destruction. Will they learn the truth behind the brothel and their mission before succumbing to an ulterior plan neither of them wishes to see?
First of all a huge thank you to Nicole Pouchet for kindle giving me the ARC of Trapped by a Song to read and review it. It was a quick, interesting and steamy story that I enjoyed!
To be fair, I actually feel like this book is better than 3 stars but not quite 4 stars, if you know what I mean. I would give it 3.5 stars although I don't usually work with halves. But anyway...
So Trapped by a Song is a novella about paras (people born with paranormal abilities) that are basically forced to serve as officers. I've always been a fan of stories like this and I've read a couple like it before and I must say that I really liked this one because it's also a retelling of the fairy tale Jorinda and Jorindel by the Brothers Grimm. I actually read the fairy tale after I finished reading Trapped by a Song just to see what it was like and it's a pretty great retelling of it, in my opnion.
Main characters Jori and Del had great chemistry. I guess I would've liked a bit more character building to be able to connect with them more but then again this is still a novella of only 81 pages so it's kind of hard when there's not much time for it. But other than that they were great. I loved how Jori was a a bit indifferent at times but that eventually she couldn't deny her attraction to Del.
I really liked the twist of the original Brothers Grimm story where Nicole Pouchet changed the old fairy into a succubus. Pretty brilliant if you ask me. I also liked how the succubus used a drug called Song to lure men and to make them keep coming back. I just love a good story with an evil succubus.
All in all, Trapped by a Song was a likable paranormal story that I read very fast. It might not be the best novella I've ever read but it was quick, very hot and I loved the twist on the fairy tale.
About the Author:
Still amazed to be an adult, Nicole co-owns a marketing agency and writes paranormal romance novels. She has managed to center her life around raising her two small sons and being true to her family (including husband and friends), and is happiest near the water.
Nicole wrote a weekly column about life’s mysterious and mundane moments called “A Discerning Eye” for her local branch of AOL’s news website, Patch. Her poetry and articles have been published in journals including Executive Pie, Sacramento Poetry Corner, Mother Earth Journal, Lummox Journal, Poetry Now, Poetry Motel, and The Duke University Archives.
Nicole holds an English degree from Duke University where she studied poetry under Lucille Clifton and Debbie Pope.
As a former theater hand, Nicole assistant directed Broadway’s Little Women and Broadway’s A Thousand Clowns; served as prop master’s assistant for Broadway’s Birdy; and directed and stage managed a host of regional plays in Durham, North Carolina and Charles Town, West Virginia.
Nicole is a partner at marketing agency BlueTreeDigital, an outsourced marketing department for small-to-medium sized businesses. She lives in Leesburg, Virginia with her husband and two small sons.
Title: Beauty's Beast
Author: Amanda Ashley
Publication: September 2nd 2014 by Zebra
Genre: Adult ~ Fantasy
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Cover Rating: 4/5
Overall Rating: 1/5
Review copy provided in exchange for an honest review.
Beauty
Fair of face and figure, Kristine is young, innocent, pure. Yet she has been condemned to the gallows for killing a man. The only one who can save her is a lord so infamous that some say he is the son of the Devil himself...
And the Beast
Erik Trevayne is called the Demon Lord of Hawksbridge Castle, but few know of the curse he lives under. Or the terrifying changes slowly gnawing away at his humanity. When he weds her, all he wants of Kristine is a son. But when he beds her, a wild hope is born—that love that can tame even the most monstrous of beasts...
Honestly, I didn't like Beauty's Beast at all. The description and cover were pretty amazing sounding and looking but in the end I felt a little deceived by them. I couldn't like anything about this book. I wish I had liked it more but I just didn't unfortunately.
I love retellings, especiallye fairy tales retellings so much. I really thought this book was going to be fantastic but it disappointed me. The first thing that put me off was the writing. I really didn't like it. It was a little choppy and the conversations felt awkward.
The characters were another thing that put me off. Kristine was kinda... weak. I like female characters that are fierce and independend but she was anything but. All in all, Erik wasn't the worst to read about but I still didn't really like him all that much. He was just meh. The romance between them was just the worst. I didn't like the way they started and how the story went for them. There was no world and character building whatsoever.
And another thing... are there supposed to be winks to The Phantom of the Opera in this book? I'm not sure but there's a mask involved and two characters that are named Erik and Kristine? If this is so, then it's pretty nicely done. But that's the only possitive thing I could say about this book and I'm not even sure if the author meant for this to be so.
So overall, Beauty's Beast by Amanda Ashley is definitely not a favorite book of mine. I was extremely bored and frustrated throughout reading this story. The characters, the writing and the story in general was pretty disappointing, cheap even and just awful in my opnion.
Title: The Fall
Author: Bethany Griffin
Publication: October 7th 2014 by Greenwillow Books
Genre: Young Adult ~ Horror ~ Retelling
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Cover Rating: 5/5
Overall Rating: 5/5
Review copy provided in exchange for an honest review.
Madeline Usher is doomed.
She has spent her life fighting fate, and she thought she was succeeding. Until she woke up in a coffin.
Ushers die young. Ushers are cursed. Ushers can never leave their house, a house that haunts and is haunted, a house that almost seems to have a mind of its own. Madeline’s life—revealed through short bursts of memory—has hinged around her desperate plan to escape, to save herself and her brother. Her only chance lies in destroying the house.
In the end, can Madeline keep her own sanity and bring the house down? The Fall is a literary psychological thriller, reimagining Edgar Allan Poe’s classic The Fall of the House of Usher.
Nothing here is just anything. This is not just a house. We have never been simply children. We are Ushers.
The Fall of the House of Usher is one of my favorite stories by Edgar Allan Poe so when I had the chance to read and review a retelling of it, I was pretty excited and didn't wait too long to jump into it. It's my first Bethany Griffin book and it was so freaking good! I can't wait to read more books by her!
First of all I should mention that this is not a typical story. The chapters are really short (which I love) and they jump between Madeline's age, between nine and nineteen. At first it was a bit confusing as I didn't really understood it all yet. But soon I really came into it and came to genuinely like how this book was written. It was just so original!
I liked reading about Madeline in every age. I loved learning more about the house, about everything going on in there and how it affected her and the other characters throughout the years. There were also some twists I hadn't seen coming, which made my jaw drop all the time and the horror factor was a pretty big part. Some scenes really creeped me out. And I usually don't get creeped out easily. I would not recommend reading it at night like I did most of the time. I had to stop a few times because I was freaking myself out too much. But oh how I loved that.
The ending really took me aback. I literally had to read that last chapter three times to really get what had happened. It was surprising and also shocking. I hadn't seen it coming at all. But those in my opinion are the best story endings, the ones you don't see coming.
Overall, The Fall by Bethany Griffin is one of the best retellings I ever read. The writing was excellent. It was beautiful, creepy, superb and it, together with the amazingly dark story and omnious yet interesting characters just pulled me in. I loved it!
Favorite Quotes:
Mother told me once that no matter how brave you think you are, how sure you are of your faith or your convictions or of the rules of science and nature, you can barely glance at the House of Usher. Your eyes won't let you take it in.
I want my own memories, my own stories.
"The spirit of the house—the conciousness of it—gets inside our heads. It sees through our eyes and feels what we feel, especially moments of extreme emotion, moments of passion. Or grief. It loves grief."
About the Author:
Bethany Griffin is a high school English teacher who prides herself on attracting creative misfits to elective classes like Young Adult Literature, Creative Writing, and Speculative Literature. She is the author of Handcuffs & MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (April 2012). She lives with her family in Kentucky.
Title: The Gospel of Loki
Author: Joanne M. Harris
Publication: February 25th 2014 by Hachette Australia
Genre: Adult ~ Fantasy
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Cover Rating: 5/5
Overall Rating: 5/5
With his notorious reputation for trickery and deception, and an ability to cause as many problems as he solves, Loki is a Norse god like no other. Demon-born, he is viewed with deepest suspicion by his fellow gods who will never accept him as one of their own and for this he vows to take his revenge.
But while Loki is planning the downfall of Asgard and the humiliation of his tormentors, greater powers are conspiring against the gods and a battle is brewing that will change the fate of the Worlds.
From his recruitment by Odin from the realm of Chaos, through his years as the go-to man of Asgard, to his fall from grace in the build-up to Ragnarok, this is the unofficial history of the world's ultimate trickster.
“Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies.”
I don't even know where to begin with my review of The Gospel of Loki. I can genuinely say that it was fantastic, funny, entertaining and I even think this is the best book I've read so far this year.
So even though I'm a huge mythology fan I didn't know a whole lot about Norse mythology. After this book I must say that I know more than I knew before so yes, this book is pretty informative and it's obvious that Joanne Harris put a lot of effort into this story and did her research. Pretty amazing!
Although I wasn't too well known with Norse mythology, like I said before. I've always liked Loki the most of all the gods. Marvel may have something to do with that but whatever... I loved the way Loki recounted the story, telling his version of events. He was so funny. I laughed my ass off a lot while reading it and I'd definitely recommend reading the character list. But Loki? He was also dramatic, deadly in his own away and just plain fabulous. Yeah, I loved him in this story.
The writing was excellent, too. The descriptions of Asgard and the other worlds made me feel like I was really there. It really was a pleasure to read about all of Loki's adventures. I can't remember the last book I enjoyed this book. It was simply superb! Everyone should absolutely read this book.
Favorite Quotes:
Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains — hey, a story can even raise the dead. And that's why the King of stories ended up being King of the gods; because writing history and making history are only the breadth of a page apart.
Whoever said names can't hurt you was either drunk or stupid. All words have power, of course, but names are the most potent of all, which is why the gods had so many.
here were a few compensations to having corporeal Aspect. Food (jam tarts were my favourites); drink (mostly wine and mead); setting things on fire; sex (although I was still extremely confused by all the taboos surrounding this - no animals, no siblings, no men, no married women, no demons - frankly, it was amazing to me that anyone had sex at all, with so many rules against it).
About the Author:
Joanne Harris (MBE) was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.
Since then, she has written 14 more novels, two collections of short stories and three cookbooks. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, has honorary doctorates in literature from the universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, and has been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science.
Title: Neverland
Author: Anna Katmore
Series: Adventures in Neverland #1
Publication: April 11th 2014
Genre: Young Adult ~ Fantasy ~ Retelling
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Cover Rating: 4/5
Overall Rating: 3/5
Why is there a boy who doesn’t want to grow up?
How can an apple start the sweetest romance in fairytale history?
And what does a ruthless pirate have to do with it all?
Angelina McFarland loves reading fairytales. But she never dreamed of falling right into one herself. That’s exactly what happens when she slips on her balcony and a flying Peter Pan catches her mid-fall.
Ending up in Neverland where no one seems to age and laws of nature are out of control, Angel has no idea how to get home. Worse, the ruthless Captain Hook captures her and keeps her trapped on his ship, the Jolly Roger, where she gets caught between the lines of a timeless battle. But the more time Angel spends with the captain, the more she sees beneath his ruthless façade.
As Angel desperately tries to find a way to return to her real life, she discovers a train ticket to London in her pocket. It won’t be any help in getting off the island, but as her memory fades away the longer she stays, this is all she has left to remind her of her former life and why she can’t give up trying.
Or is staying in Neverland forever the better choice after all?
Grab a happy thought and follow Angel on an adventure that will keep you breathless and smiling long after you read the last page…
Peter Pan is one of my all-time favorite tales. I loved the classic story and have always been captivated by retellings of it. I've read quite a few of them and they have ranged from amazing to meh. Neverland by Anna Katmore was somewhere in between for me.
The start was really promising for me. It intrigued me and I wanted to see where the story would go. I really liked Angelina. I loved her fierceness and her determination to get back to her baby sisters.
Hook was an interesting character. In the start he seemed really ruthless but once he spend more time with Angelina he softened up. Actually, he softened a little too much for my liking because I was really intrigued by the cruel Hook. I get that for this romance to work between him and Angel, he couldn't be too heartless but still... And I had some problems with the words Hook used when he talked. Neverland is supposed to excist in another time, like a century or so ago, as Angel says in the book. Everyone even has the clothes from that age and yet the way Hook talked seemed so modern. Maybe this is just a silly pet peeve on my part but it's just my opinion. But aside from that I did really like him. He was quite swoon-worthy!
I don't really have a really straight forward opnion on Peter. However, I do like his relationship with Hook (of course I won't tell you what it is, you'll just have to find out for yourself). It's a very interesting twist on what we know from other books and movies so I think that was pretty original of the author.
The writing was pretty good and the book was a quick read. I went through it in only a day so that was also really great! The romance was very sweet and I can't wait to see where the story goes next. Dang that cliffhanger!
This has been one trip to Neverland I'll remember for a while to come!
About the Author:
The quick-and-dirty:
I'm a girl with a passion for writing.
The genres you'll find me hanging out at are contemporary and paranormal YA, but I'm also snooping into some adult paranormal right now. All of them romances...of course.
The nitty-gritty:
I'm an Austrian lass--totally uncomplicated and up to anything fun.
I grew up in Vienna, not by free will but because my parents decided to move there when I was only 4 years old. I. Hated. The. City. Everything about it. So right after graduation I moved back to Upper Austria, where I settled down with a nice husband and an awesome laptop.
I've been a storyteller all my life. Already in kindergarten, I came up with the most exotic fantasies and tales. My teacher would call me a liar. I call it the cornerstone of my writing career.
People always told me you can't make a living with being an author. So when my first novella PLAY WITH ME came out and shot straight to the stars within the first week, I was totally dumbstruck. Took me a while to realize what was happening, LOL.
Title: Winterspell
Author: Claire Legrand
Publication: September 30th 2014 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Genre: Young Adult ~ Fantasy ~ Retelling
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Cover Rating: 5/5
Overall Rating: 4/5
Review copy provided in exchange for an honest review.
Darkly romantic and entirely enchanting, this reimagining of The Nutcracker from Claire Legrand brims with magic, love, and intrigue. New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer (Cinder) says “this is not your grandmother’s Nutcracker tale.”
After her mother is brutally murdered, seventeen-year-old Clara Stole is determined to find out what happened to her. Her father, a powerful man with little integrity, is a notorious New York City gang lord in the syndicate-turned-empire called Concordia. And he isn’t much help.
But there is something even darker than Concordia’s corruption brewing under the surface of the city, something full of vengeance and magic, like the stories Clara’s godfather used to tell her when she was a little girl. Then her father is abducted and her little sister’s life is threatened, and Clara accidentally frees Nicholas from a statue that has been his prison for years. Nicholas is the rightful prince of Cane, a wintry kingdom that exists beyond the city Clara has known her whole life.
When Nicholas and Clara journey together to Cane to retrieve her father, Clara encounters Anise, the queen of the faeries, who has ousted the royal family in favor of her own totalitarian, anti-human regime. Clara finds that this new world is not as foreign as she feared, but time is running out for her family, and there is only so much magic can do...
Winterspell was fantastic! I can't even begin to explain this amazing story. I knew this was going to be a great read but I hadn't imagined it being as good as it was. I loved the story, the characters, the writing and the echoes of The Nutcracker story. Oh and let's not forget the unbelievably excellent world building. Just perfection!
Let's talk about Clara. I really liked her. At first I thought her a bit weak when she let herself be pushed around by Concordia, especially Patricia Plum and Dr. Victor but she sure made a huge change, gradually, through the book. It was character building in its finest. And I love her she gave Plum and Dr. Victor a taste of their own medicine in the end.
There's quite a few side characters that play a pretty big role in this book like Prince Nicholas. I liked him, but I wasn't too fond of him when he made some decisions that didn't sit well with me. But still, he and Clara had some really great chemistry going and I love that in characters that are or will get romantically involved.
Then there's Godfather Drosselmeyer. He was a great character. He kept a lot of things from Clara but I still liked him anyway. He was like a second father to her and he was just so interesting to read about!
And finally, there's Anise, the faery queen. I had expected to really hate her but I ended up being a little sympathetic to her in some way. I do believe she was really lonely, afraid and just wanted a friend. But she was kinda crazy though. Crazy and evil.
Like I said it has amazing world building. It really does. I was so impressed by it because it's been a while since I read a book with at least some decent world building.
The ending was perfect. I was getting kind of worried about what would happen with Clara and if she would ever return to Cane. To know if she does you'll just have to read the book and find out on your own.
The only slightly negative thing I felt when reading was that the book was so long. For the last 40% of it I was ready for it to be over but that's just me.
Overall, Winterspell was a dark, greatly imagined with elements of steampunk, retelling of The Nutcracker that left be speechless. It was unlike anything I've read before and I loved it. Claire Legrand did an fantastic job with this tale that almost everyone knows. I simply loved it!
About the Author:
Claire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn't stop thinking about the stories in her head. Now a writer, Ms. Legrand can often be found typing with purpose at her keyboard, losing herself in the stacks at her local library, or embarking upon spontaneous adventures to lands unknown. Her first novel is THE CAVENDISH HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, a New York Public Library Best Book for Children in 2012. Her second novel, THE YEAR OF SHADOWS, a ghost story for middle grade readers, is available now. Her third novel, WINTERSPELL, will follow on September 30, 2014, with its prequel e-novella, SUMMERFALL, releasing August 26, 2014. She is one of the four authors behind THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, an anthology of dark middle grade fiction due out May 27, 2014 from Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins. Claire lives in New Jersey with a dragon and two cats. Visit her at claire-legrand.com and at enterthecabinet.com.
