Dreams and Shadows
A Novel

I did not love this book. And I've been trying to figure out why, aside from the obvious geek factor it seems like it should have been something I'd be in to, an every day world opened to magic, the grit of the streets hiding the sidhe and other creatures of the night. The more I think about the book......more

I think I came into this with high hopes only because I knew the writer from the Doctor Strange movie and having really enjoyed Sea of Rust, but nothing quite prepared me for a full-out novel of the Sidhe. The fae folk. Changelings, a nasty Tithe, and the tricksy Coyote. Oh, and let's not forget the......more

This was like a really spooky Harry Potter tale. Quite bleak and dark, but really interesting. Two lead boys, set in Austin. I had a hard time rooting for the main characters but the world building was great and very eerie/spooky settings. A screenwriter wrote it, so it's probably gonna be a TV seri......more

This is a modern fairytale. A fairytale that incorporates tropes and motives well-known to any lover of folktales and myths. And yet it has that little extra that makes you not forget the familiarity of the tale, but which makes you recognize it like a long-missed friend or relative finally coming f......more