Review: Tender Morsels

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



A fleshed-out version of Snow White and Rose Red. Definitely at the adult end of YA, this is a story set in a fictional town of the Middle Ages, of a girl who suffers terrible abuses, and magically escapes with the product of these abuses - her two daughters - to her own "personal heaven", to raise them. Graphic, visceral, magical.



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Review: The Book of Human Skin

The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



This book pretty much encapsulates everything I love about reading. I love it when a book can throw you right back to a particular time or place, and keep you there thoroughly engrossed until, all too soon, one must return to cold, harsh reality... but with a desire to google for more juicy details. No need to re-hash plot details here, as everyone else seems to have done that, suffice to say, very cleverly researched and written from varying points of view (and fonts), fascinating reading.



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Review: The Scorpio Races

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



An incredibly stylish re-imagining of the kelpie myth. Fast paced, edgy, yet beautifully descriptive of an island haunted by water horses from the sea. A remote island that time has seemingly forgotten, except for the month of November each year when these kelpies are perilously captured by humans and raced against each other, often to the death, for a small fortune. Water horses who glide the ocean deeps like mermaids, and seek to eat human flesh and blood and leave the sea at night to prey in the dark, like vampires. I have read many a story in which kelpies played a small part, and it was an absolute delight to read a whole book devoted to just them and no other fae creature, even though the author took many liberties with the kelpie mythology, it just didn't matter because it was so damn brilliant.



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