Reviews by Category: Fantasy

Synopsis: Bilbo Baggins’s ring is more powerful, and much more dangerous, than

Gandalf had previously thought. The ring has been shown to be the One Ring of Sauron, the

Dark Lord. As Bilbo leaves it behind and goes on an eternal vacation into the wild, Gandalf

entrusts the ring to Frodo, Bilbo’s nephew and adoptive heir, and warns him not to put it on.

Later, Gandalf finds that Sauron has come back to power in Mordor, and his nine Ringwraiths

are after the ring and the ringbearer. Frodo must embark on an epic quest with a Fellowship put

Strike the Zither was an amazing read that had multiple plot twists I didn’t see coming. I love

how the author incorporated Chinese history, and the portrayal of Chinese culture was very well

done. For a majority of the book, I could not put it down. There were other parts that did drag a

bit for me, which is why it is four and not five stars. This story is also gender swapped, meaning

In this third iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, we get to see the

formation of the greatest power duo that the literary world may have ever been faced with:

Horace and Halt. This book is an interesting new style from the author where it switches back

from a princess and a ranger stuck in slavery (their names are Will and Evanlyn: I hope you can

tell which one is the princess) and a prince stuck with a former battleschool student (just kidding,

In this second iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, we revisit our

beloved character Will. Now marked with fame by his contest against the Kalkara and his rescue

of his even more famous master Halt, he is sent on a mission in preparation for war against the

exiled lord Morgarath. But this falls to pieces when Will, accompanied by Halt’s former

apprentice Gilan and his friend Horace, finds the neighboring lands of Celtica deserted, a lost girl

In this first iteration of the twelve books in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, a boy named Will

become-though this may come as a surprise to some people-a ranger’s apprentice. Will, a

scrawny fifteen-year-old boy finds himself learning the ways of rangers after being taken in by

the famous and rather grim ranger Halt after being rejected from battle school, the one thing he

had always wanted in life. This is a result of believing that his father had died as a knight and

The story is set in present day America and is about the 13 year old demigod Percy

Jackson and his friends Annabeth and Tyson. They must go on a quest to rescue their friend

Grover and retrieve the Golden Fleece from the Cyclops Polyphemus to save Camp Half-Blood

from being destroyed by monsters and titans. On their quest many people and monsters will try

to stop them from succeeding. The main characters are Percy, the son of Poseidon, Annabeth,

the daughter of Athena, and Tyson, a cyclops. The author describes the characters well so you

As Harry leaves the Dursleys’ for the last time to set off to find all of Voldemort’s

horcruxes, they get attacked by multiple Death Eaters and Voldemort, who tried to kill Harry but

his wand fended him off. They camp in the woods, with no idea where to go or what to do, when

Harry sees a silver doe patronus leads Harry to where the real Sword of Gryffindor was kept,

which they could use to destroy the Horcruxes. Harry then accidentally says Voldemort’s name,

When Victor Vale and his roommate Eli Cardale propose the idea of “E.O’s” - ExtraOrdinaries,

people who possess powers seemingly from birth. However, the two boys are determined to

prove that EO’s are made from near death experiences, by having near death experiences

themselves. Consequently, a research project soon results in one man in jail for unjust causes and

the other free, with a thirst for killing EO’s as they were seen as unnatural in his eyes. Ten years

Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince features Jude Duarte, a girl who was stolen from the mortal world

alongside her twin and older sister, Taryn and Vivi, by a Redcap Fae named Madoc. Years later,

Jude and Taryn now attend school among the higher ranked fae, including Prince Cardan

Greenbriar, the cruel prince of Elfhame (get it?). He and his friends, Nicasia, Valerian, and

Locke, do whatever they can to make Jude and Taryn miserable for their human heritage. The

A 12 year old, Percy is diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. While on a field trip, Percy’s

teacher, Ms. Dodds, pulls him over to punish him, but instead she turns into a monster and tries

to attack him. Percy gets saved by his Latin teacher, Chiron, and is taken to Camp Half-Blood.

At Camp Half-Blood, Chiron introduces Percy to Mr. D, the god of wine. He is then taken to the

Hermes cabin because they didn’t know what godly parent he belonged to. Later, they find out