I have to admit, I don’t really like love triangles. Sure, I can admire a well constructed one, but in general, I like my romance to have a little more certainty. I hate spending a book unsure who she is really going to end up with, because the author is doing too good of a [...]
The Trouble with Kings
by Sherwood Smith
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Princess Flian finds herself the unwilling object of desire of three royals. Is the one she wants a villain—or a hero?
Waking up in a strange place, Flian Elandersi at first doesn’t know who she is. One [...]
Aurelia
by Anne Osterlund
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Someone wants crown princess Aurelia dead. And it’s up to her childhood friend, Robert, to figure out who’s trying to kill her while trying not to fall in love with her.
As Aurelia learns of the attempts on her life, she realizes she must do whatever she [...]
Summers at Castle Auburn
By Sharon Shinn
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Illegitimate daughter of a royal lord, Coriel’s time is divided between her life n the village as her healer grandmother’s apprentice and her summers at Castle Auburn, where she lives as her uncle’s ward and spends three glorious months with [...]
The Luxe
By Anna Godbersen
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Elizabeth is dead.
Society’s darling has died on the eve of her marriage, tragically lost in the river. All of New York City mourns.
But what lead up to her funeral? How did her sister’s yearning for romance and adventure lead [...]
Book of a Thousand Days
By Shannon Hale
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Dashti trained to be a lady’s maid, learning her letters and manners, and wielding generations of healing songs to ease a bad temper or help a sore muscle. What she found instead was a scared young lady who was to be [...]
Before Midnight
By Cameron Dokey
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Every year, Cendrillion (child of cinders) wishes what she’s planted on her mother’s grave will still be alive on her birthday. Yet every year, whatever she plants withers away over night, poisoned by her father’s unforgiving heart. [...]
I had the great pleasure of seeing the Little Mermaid musical tonight, and it was… wow. Fantastic. Happy. Cute. Everything I want a fairytale to be. It’s hard to have a funny, romantic, and fantastical musical I think–too often it gets drama heavy, the songs are too shrill (due to lots of high [...]
The Rose Bride
By Nancy Holder
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Rose’s mother, Celestine, grew a glorious rose garden behind their chateau, and central to that garden was the statue of Artemis. Celestine was faithful to her goddess, and on the eve of her daughter’s thirteenth birthday, she asked [...]
Wow. I just saw Stardust yesterday and I don’t think I have seen a more fun and feel good movie all summer. The special effects, scenery, and costuming are of course gorgeous and it’s a very fantastical movie, but at heart, it’s just a damn happy trip through a faerie world. No giant wars with [...]