Tag: #morrowpaperbacks

• 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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 1, 2023

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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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 29, 2023

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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.

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 29, 2023

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