Category: Reviews
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The Liz Taylor Ring Review
Jewelry has a way of making a girl shine brighter, feel prettier, sexier, like sparkly armour so they can walk into the room with their head held high. For some, jewelry can have immense meaning imbued into it, remembering who gave it to you and why, all the special events it represents.
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The Audrey Hepburn Estate Review
After years away, Emma is returning to her home, Rolling Hills aka the Aubrey Hepburn Estate due to local legend that Sabrina was filmed on the premise. Untrue. Also untrue is that Emma lived in the main house, she lived above the garage since her mother was the maid. It’s all in the technacalities and…
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Hiddensea: The Once and Future Nutcracker Review
Maguire takes readers to a deep dark wood where Dirk the foundling dies and comes back to life. It’s a traumatic incident and the foundling boy, who was never quite whole in the first place, ventures out into the world. Alone, and lost, apart from others and haunted by the past he blocked out, Dirk…
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Mirror, Mirror Review
Maguire sets his tale of vanity and murder in 16th century Italy where the wicked queen is played by a historical domain character, Lucrenzia Borgia, sister to Ceseare Borgia who was the inspiration for Machavelli’s The Prince. Lucrenzia is vain but her jealousy of Bianca, the girl as white as snow stems from her brother’s…
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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister Review
Maguire takes the tale of Cinderella to Holland during the height of the Tulip madness. Beauty is the theme of the day, the traditional aesthetic beauty of femininity, the beauty immortal captured on canvas, the beauty in nature, and of course, the inner beauty in charity.
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After Alice Review
Maguire is best known for his work retelling the stories of Oz’ famous characters (and inspiring the subsequent Broadway play) but as the library didn’t have Wicked, I decided to take a look at Maguire’s other fairytale works. After Alice is just as implied where a minor character from the original novel, Ada, falls down…
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Emerald Green Review
After finding out that Saint Germain and Gideon have been manipulating her this whole time, though she still doesn’t know why or what’s the endgame, Gwenyth just wants to wallow in her heartbreak. But her friends, Lesley and Xemerius will not allow it. Now, they’re just a few clues from finding out where the treasure…
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Sapphire Blue Review
Set just moments when Gideon kisses Gwen, her blissful make-out is interrupted by a demon gargoyle. Once again, Gwen’s ability to see ghosts and demons ruin her semi-normal life. But the nuisance, Xemerius is nothing compared to the flip-flopping nature of Gideon de Villers and the fact that no one in the Inner Circle is…
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Perfect Fifths Review
In the final book, McCafferty answers the ultimate question. Can Jessica and Marcus’ unpredictable, predictable mind game of a relationship work in the longterm for them in a close proximity enviroment. Set two years after the events of Fourth Comings, the two have had absolutely no contact allowing both to flourish in their own fields…
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