Reviews by Category: Fantasy

In Valkyrie, The Runaway, by Kate O’Hearn, Freya has her best friend, Archie, by her

side and the upcoming Nine Realms Challenge to look forward to. Everything is great

until she’s summoned by Odin. Odin sends her to retrieve a banished Valkyrie and bring

her back to Asgard. As Freya and Archie are traveling and trying to bring the Valkyrie

home, they learn secrets that have long been buried. Freya finds her family, but will they

Valkyrie, by Kate O’Hearn, is the story of a girl who’s learning that friends come from

unexpected places. Freya is a newly made Valkyrie. On her first reaping, the soldier she

was sent to reap asked her to look after his family, that something bad was happening.

Freya agrees and travels to Midgard, Earth, against the rules. While there she finds a

boy who soon becomes her friend, meets the soldier’s family and tries to help them,

Gwyneth Shepherd has enough on her plate, what with her ability to talk to ghosts, and the

constant struggle with ugly school uniforms. She definitely could do without unexpected bouts of

time travel. Unfortunately for Gwyneth, her family’s preparations for Gwen’s cousin Charlotte to

inherit a time travel gene were incorrect. Now, Gwyneth must fight to figure out the secrets of

the secret society controlling the time troubles and somehow survive the company of her

Rating: 3

My rating for this book is a 3 because the book only takes place in one setting for the

most part. This makes the book not at all compelling to me personally. It was hard to

focus reading the book as it was not very interesting.

Rating: 3

My rating for this book is a 3 because the book is a bit confusing at times and the

plot is a little blurred at times. The book is okay in my opinion but I think it will be great

for people who like to read about fantasy.

Summary:

This book is about a princess named Soraya. The rest of the world has no idea that

she even exists. She has a poisonous touch that will kill anything that she touches. She

then meets Azad who isn't scared of her; he even looks up to her.

Elf is a classic Christmas comedy about a human baby (Will Ferrell) mistakenly ending up at the

North Pole and growing up amongst the elves. It isn’t until many years later, after not fitting in

with the elves and being named Buddy, that he finds out from Santa that he’s just an ordinary

human. With this news, Buddy travels to New York to search for his real father. But this journey

would not come easy for Buddy as he gets tangled with a raccoon, ran over by a cab, and fired

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is confusing. It starts off great with Grindelwald

making a dramatic escape from prison after infiltrating the American Magical Congress-- but

then proceeds to get foggy when professor Dumbledore is either unwilling or unable to stop

Grindelwald's madness and relies on Newt Scamander to fight him instead. Newt, not being

able to fight Grindelwald effectively, given his field in Magizoology, tries to find the one person

The Diviners is a historical fiction fantasy novel by Libba Bray. It is the first novel in The Diviners

series. It follows Evie O’Neill, who has recently been sent to New York to live with her uncle.

After her uncle is called to a murder scene, she decides to use a secret ability she possess in

order to solve the case. However, the novel also features Memphis, a young man caught in the

occult world, Theta, a girl fleeing her dark past and Jericho, a man hiding a dark secret.

Mal and Alina are orphans who grow up in military service. They are great

friends but then a military conflict happens and Alina is drafted by a

mysterious figure called the Darkling to be a Grisha. Alina is learning what

it means to be a Grisha while the Darkling takes a special interest in her

because she has the powers of a sun summoner which have been gone for

centuries. She has to run from the palace though when Baghra reveals the

Darkling’s true colors and reveals that he intends to bind Alina with a

Jude Duarte is now seneschal, an advisor to the High King of Elfhame, who is Cardan

Greenbriar. She wants to keep Cardan and Elfhame in control until her brother, Oak, is finally of

age to become King. However, the Queen of the Undersea is threatening Cardan to marry her

daughter or else she will attack his kingdom, which makes Jude’s plans more difficult. So Jude is

trying to protect Oak, Cardan, and Elfhame, but unfortunately she gets captured by the Queen of