This is a good book. A young girl is brought to the castle in her town by her father so that she can work there. She eventually works her way up to being a silver polisher. She is in charge of polishing a silver bowl that talks to her while she is polishing it. It shows her that there is a curse ...
I stayed up all night to finish this book but it's not as good as it turn out to be. It's a great disappointment, not even the ending is to my satisfaction. I mean if something is great why fix or destroy it. I would just live it for the better but since you knew the truth then you have a choice....
Saving Sky by Diane Stanley is an interesting book that takes place in the near future. Sky's family lives in New Mexico on a farm. Her mom is a nurse in Santa Fe, her dad is an artist but because of the war currently shoes horses. Sky also has a younger sister, Mouse. This family of four liv...
I loved the first in the series and so I was looking forward to the Cup and the Crown. Despite some glorious adventure scenes I really couldn't get into the story and I wasn't able to suspend my disbelief (a little voice in the back of my head kept asking 'really?'). Part of my disappointment cou...
In Westria, Elizabetta had been a grand lady, exotic and yet familiar in her sumptuous gown and jewels. Last night, at the dinner, her simple dress and manner had made her seem young and sweet, even more beautiful than before. Now, as she greeted Molly in a well-worn tunic not even as nice as the...
It is small, with a mountain in the middle, and it’s shrouded by fog in every season of the year—hidden from passing ships, invisible to the gods, invisible even to the great lord Poseidon, whose realm this is. Only Athene knows it exists, because she put it there, and has carefully protected it ...
It was how I always wished to remember him—not as he was that last time, when he broke my heart. I was watching Margaret for Mother, who was busy with the threshing. We had gone to the riverbank with our baskets, in search of herbs for the making of simples for such maladies as rashes of the skin...