🪿🏰⚔️ So Much Fantasy! 😍

   This will be a week of fantasy for me, and I’m so excited!

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 Marissa Meyer was new to me and was recommended by one of my daughters, who shares my love of fantasy. Gilded is a retelling of the story of Rumplestiltskin. Meyer creates an imaginative world with a plucky heroine. Sirelda is a poor miller’s daughter who lies to the king of the Undead, the Erlking, telling him she can spin straw into gold. Sound familiar? From that familiar fairy tale, Meyer creates an intricate plot with unforeseen twists and turns. She is not afraid to “kill her darlings,” which gives the story an edgy intensity. Gilded is part of a duology. I’ve got her second one Cursed, locked and loaded. Stay tuned.

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    After going a while without any T. Kingfisher, two books become available in the same week! Score! Here is a link to the many, many other T. Kingfisher, AKA Ursula Vernon books I’ve reviewed: https://barbpruittwrites.blogspot.com/search?q=kingfisher. A Sorceress Comes to Call is a take on the fairy tale The Goose Girl. I was unfamiliar with it, so I looked it up on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_Girl), and it’s a Grimm tale. 

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This book has horror elements making it one that I prefer to listen to during daylight. I admire Kingfisher’s ability to tell a story from multiple voices, playing them off each other. She also chooses unlikely heroes like a fifty-year-old spinster with knee trouble and an overwhelmed fourteen-year-old fighting a powerful evil sorceress. 

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    Paladin’s Faith is fourth in the Saint of Steel series, and I think there will be more. This book features previous characters, Margarite, the cynical spy, and Shane, the self-loathing Paladin. The more I read of Kingfisher, the more I appreciate her damaged characters who struggle to make their way in the world trying to do more good than damage. Each book in the series revolves around a quest and a romance, making for a spicy, intriguing read. So good!

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