Ship of Smoke and Steel
By: Django Wexler
An enormous and seemingly impossible ship full of sacrifices. Commanded by an unseen Captain and a vicious crew. Guarded by “angels” who won’t let you leave once you board.
Action, violence, love and lust, betrayal and a fight for survival against a series of strange creatures including giant man-eating crabs.
I really think someone should get into the book tourism business because this would make a great cruise.
Enchantée
By: Gita Trelease
Paris. Versailles. Love. Magic. Hot air ballon and handsome inventors. The French Revolution. Marie Antionette (well, a cameo) and the crazy parties of the aristocracy while the world burned.
Even the cover of this book screams, “Read me in the Spring!”
Grump The (Fairly True Tale of Snow White & the Seven Dwarves)
By: Liesl Shurtliff
Grade: A
I could not resist the Snow White tale as told from the POV of my favorite dwarf. Grumpy. Real name: Borlan. A dwarf who doesn’t actually like being unground all that much and has a deep fascination with the surface.
One day he gets his chance to break free and runs right into a certain Queen. The rest is finally, the true story.
