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Book Review: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory I found the premise of The Cruel Prince disturbing.  The fairy king who killed Jude's family adopts her and all the fairies tell her she's supposed to be honored....

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Book Review: Cress by Marissa Meyer

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory I liked Cress much better than Cinder or Scarlet. In fact, it took me a few years to even finish the series because I didn't like Scarlet very much. I'm so glad I...

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Book Review: Winter by Marissa Meyer

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory Winter ended up being my favorite book in the whole series. Snow White is probably the hardest fairy tale character to connect to. She's perfect and helpless. Winter...

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Book Review: Fawkes by Nadine Brandes

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory Fawkes starts out introducing us to Thomas who is slowly turning to stone on the day he needs to take an important test at St. Peter's Color School which sounds just...

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Book Review: Far From Agrabah by Aisha Saeed + GIVEAWAY!

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory I received this free book for review from Disney Books in exchange for an honest review. I was not told what to say, I was not paid to write this review and all the...

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Book Review: The Last Jedi by Jason Fry

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory I'm a big fan of the Star Wars movie novelizations. Even when they aren't expanded, like The Last Jedi is, I always get something out of it that I missed in the...

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Book Review: Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory The plot of Nine Coaches Waiting was way too similar to Jane Eyre. A single woman with a sad past comes to a creepy house with a weird owner to be a governess. She...

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Book Review: Harry Potter Page to Screen by Bob McCabe

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory Harry Potter Page to Screen was like reading a yearbook of your time at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It's sentimental, full of great stories to...

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Book Review: Wishtree by Katherine Applegate

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory It must have been fate to find Wishtree at the library right before our road trip to the Redwoods. We listened to the audiobook and followed along in the book as we...

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Book Review: Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig

Find me on Twitter @BooksATrueStory The Writing is of the Dark Side The number one thing you need to know about Star Wars Aftermath: sentence fragments. Confusion. Action. Chaotic action. Sometimes it...

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