dragons | Reading Backwards book reviews

Ella Enchanted By Gail Carson Levine Read: Repeatedly since 1997. Most recently, April 2010 Rating: J’adore Some books are like old friends. It doesn’t matter where you left off, or how long it’s been, you fall right back into friendship as soon as you meet up. Ella Enchanted is one of my favorite books. I can still [...] Full Story	Lover Avenged By J.R. Ward Read: Feb 2010 Rating: Devoured I don’t know what it is about JR Ward, but her books are amazing. Once begun, it is impossible to stop. Everything else gets put on hold. And that took a serious chunk out of my work this week, as this beautiful, beautiful volume is over 600 [...] Full Story	The Skull of the World and The Fathomless Caves By Kate Forsyth Read: ~2002, November 2009 Rating: Gripping Hoo-! I was up MUCH later than intended last night, polishing off the last of book 6, which I read right on the heels of #5. Good reading, there. When I say gripping, I mean it. The last third especially… The Skull of the World follows [...] Full Story
The Cursed Towers By Kate Forsyth Read: July 2009 Rating: Comfortable So, Lachlan and Iseult have won their throne! But now the land is covered in Bright Soldiers and the coasts are being raided by Fairgean. Maya the Ensorcellor is at large, and her followers are planning an insurrection. The Righ goes to war. There’s isn’t really a [...] Full Story	Witches of Eileannan By Kate Forsyth Read: Early 2000s?, June 2009 Rating: Love I owe one of my good friends a debt of thanks for turning me onto these. At the time it was just the first two on the shelf and we all thought it would be a trilogy. Imagine our delight when it turned into SIX [...] Full Story	The Immortally Sexy Series 1-4 by Stephanie Rowe Read: 2007/2008 Rating: Mostly fab I didn’t realize I hadn’t blogged about any of these! They’re so much fun! I found the first one at the grocery store, and by the time I finally read it I was able to hop online and buy the next 3. Yes, they’re that good. I [...] Full Story
Victory of Eagles By Naomi Novik Read: July 2008 Rating: Intense I got an email alert announcing the release of this book, and was able to attend Naomi Novik’s very first book signing EVARR. She was excited, we were excited, and the space at the Greenwich Village B&N was standing room only. How cool was that?! She read [...] Full Story	Empire of Ivory By Naomi Novik Read: June/July 2008 Rating: Fascinating I put off reading EoI for a long while because I just wasn’t in the mood. I read the first three Temeraire books back in ’06 and they have since been passed on to both my parents. All our paperbacks now have warped spines and white, messy [...] Full Story	The Temeraire Series (Books 1-3) By Naomi Novik Read: September 2006 Rating: Faboo!! Every so often, the grocery store rewards my endless browsing with a shiny pearl. This is some of the coolest stuff you could ever present to me: Historical novel. With dragons. !!!!! of JOY! Some of the only ”traveling” books I have ever liked! And you know [...] Full Story
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles By Patricia C. Wrede Read: When I was but a lass… and July 2006. Rating: Fun These were my very first proper fantasy novels. I’d recently made the graduation from the low paperback shelves to the (seemingly) giant big kids’ shelves, and had only been able to find books like Mrs. PigglyWiggly and brush up [...] Full Story	Mini Reviews (2006, January-June) Since time and interest don’t allow for every book to get its own lengthy review, I’m going to do some mini-reviews. Clod save us all. This install comes from the 2006 50 Book Challenge, which is going great guns, thanks. Books 1-20 were read during this time period. This mini review includes: Yentl’s Revenge (Essays [...] Full Story	The Black Jewels Trilogy + Dreams Made Flesh By Anne Bishop Rating: IXCALLENT. Read: 1: High school. 2: June 2006. I love this books. I cannot BEGIN to express how much I love these books. There’s so much to talk about… I’m going to have to try to limit myself. I must’ve passed over Queen about a thousand times in B&N. I always [...] Full Story