The Fairy Tale Case Files - Backstage!

  BOOK TITLE: Kojiki AUTHOR: Keith Yatsuhashi DESCRIPTION OF BOOK COVER: Back of a girl going up stairs towards a gate with a serpentine dragon coiling above and around it. GENRE (optional): Fantasy PAGES (optional):   448 BLURB: Every civilization has its myths. Only one is true. When eighteen year old Keiko Yamada’s father dies unexpectedly, he leaves behind a one way ticket to Japan, an unintelligible death poem about powerful Japanese spirits and their gigantic, beast-like Guardians, and the cryptic words: “Go to Japan in my place. Find the Gate. My camera will show you the way.” Alone and afraid, Keiko travels to Tokyo, determined to fulfil her father’s dying wish. There, beneath glittering neon signs, her father’s death poem comes to life. Ancient spirits spring from the shadows. Chaos envelops the city, and as Keiko flees its burning streets, her guide, the beautiful Yui Akiko, makes a stunning confession – that she, Yui, is one of a handful of spirits...

  BOOK TITLE: Queen of Ice AUTHOR: Emma Miles DESCRIPTION OF BOOK COVER: Black cover with the silver white silhouette of a large raven GENRE: Fantasy (Sword and Sorcery sub genre) PAGES: 352 BLURB: She’d killed a boy. His face haunts her dreams. With no notion of what she is seeking, Catya flees to the frozen and unknown province of Snowhold, leaving her friends and the Raven Scouts behind her. A glimpse of an intriguing face in a blizzard sets her on a path where her fate collides with that of ancient beasts, and a mysterious hidden people. Can she survive alone in a land where women are still slaves, and sorcerers rule? Perhaps there is a chance for redemption. Perhaps she can lay the ghost of the boy to rest. It’s time to choose; to be a hero, or a monster. # OF STARS: 4.5 *** When I thought back, I realized that it had actually been a while since I read sword and sorcery fantasy (probably my last binge through Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series was t...

  BOOK TITLE: The Nesting AUTHOR: CJ Cooke DESCRIPTION OF BOOK COVER: Two sets of branches surround the title with an elk head at the top and birds. The branches surround the title and author name. Colors are blue, white and black. GENRE: Horror/Gothic PAGES: 416 BLURB: The woods are creeping in on a nanny and two young girls in this chilling modern Gothic thriller. Architect Tom Faraday is determined to finish the high-concept, environmentally friendly home he's building in Norway – in the same place where he lost his wife, Aurelia, to suicide. It was their dream house, and he wants to honor her with it. Lexi Ellis takes a job as his nanny and immediately falls in love with his two young daughters, especially Gaia. But something feels off in the isolated house nestled in the forest along the fjord. Lexi sees mysterious muddy footprints inside the home. Aurelia's diary appears in Lexi's room one day. And Gaia keeps telling her about seeing the terrifying Sad ...