Category: Reviews
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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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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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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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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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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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This may be the longest of Jessica’s journals even though it only covers a heavy eight days, starting with Jessica contemplating a break up and Marcus proposing.
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Since leaving Pineville behind her, Jessica thought she was ready for Columbia’s intense academic scene, and was content in being herself. Yet self is ever changing, and she finds that she is exceeding Professor Mac’s wise words. She’s learning how ignorant she is of the world, and the world pushes back hard. It’s realistic though.…
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Jessica’s senior year is not off to good start. She had planned to spend the summer time at SPECIAL (a free summer enrichment program in creative writing and other arts) as a way of preparing herself for college by immersing herself in dorm life and becoming a new version of her. Unfortunately, her newfound old…
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Jessica Darling is the voice of the early 200s or Y2K generation as she refers to her and her high school classmates whom she despises and resents to varying degrees. But she has no one else to hang out with since her best friend, Hope moved so she settles for the “Clueless Club” to sit…
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