In her beloved, indispensable Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, a portal fantasy spanning Earth and the angel- and chimaera-populated land of Eretz, Laini Taylor established her bona fides as a creator of rich, expansive worlds, author of impossible love stories, and spinner of narrative spells. In Strange the Dreamer, the first in a planned duology that’s out […]
Chapter one of The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle is approximately three pages long. Three pages. That’s how long it took me to become fully, completely, dangerously hooked. Dangerously, you see, because I picked this book up at about 10:00pm on a weeknight, thinking, “I’ll just read a chapter or two.” And then I read about 100 pages, forced […]