Posts Tagged ‘fairy tale retold’
East
Autor: Edith Pattou Editora: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2005; 1ª ed. 2003) Formato: Paperback Páginas: 507 Idioma: Inglês Challenge: Fairy Tales Retold 2012 ~ 3/12 Sinopse: Rose has always felt out of place in her family, a wanderer in a bunch of homebodies. So when an enormous white bear mysteriously shows up and asks her to come [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2012, Review | 9 Comments
Etiquetas:fairy tale retold, fantasia
Snow
Autor: Tracy Lynn Série: Once Upon a Time Editora: Simon Pulse (2006) Formato: Paperback Páginas: 259 Idioma: Inglês Challenge: Fairy Tales Retold 2012 ~ 1/12 Sinopse: The Duchess Jessica’s childhood began with a tragedy: her mother’s death. Her father, heartbroken at the loss of his beloved wife, could not bear to raise the child. Largely [...]
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Etiquetas:fairy tale retold
Entwined
Autor: Heather Dixon Editora: Greenwillow Books (2011) Páginas: 470 Idioma: Inglês Sinopse: Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her… beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing… it’s taken away. All of it. The Keeper understands. He’s trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. And [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2011, Review | 9 Comments
Etiquetas:fairy tale retold, young adult
Castle in the Air
Autor: Diana Wynne Jones Editora: Eos (2008; 1ª ed. 1990) Páginas: 383 Idioma: Inglês Sinopse: Abdullah was a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer. His father, who had been disappointed in him, had left him only enough money to open a modest booth in the Bazaar. When he was not selling carpets, Abdullah spent [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2011, Review | 13 Comments
Etiquetas:fairy tale retold, fantasia
Read-a-Thon e minis
Acabou ontem! Só consegui ler 3 livros em 3 dias, mas sinceramente nunca achei que conseguisse muito mais, afinal não sou uma leitora assim tão rápida, já para não falar que tive o cuidado de escolher livros relativamente pequenos (a rondar as 200 páginas), e ainda um historical romance, que não sendo assim tão pequeno, [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2011, Review | 3 Comments
Etiquetas:fairy tale retold, read-a-thon, romance histórico
Spindle’s End
Autor: Robin McKinley Editora: Corgi Books (2003; 1ªed.2000) Páginas: 464 Idioma: Inglês Sinopse: The princess has been missing since she was a baby. And Rosie, an ordinary girl, is growing up in an unremarkable little village far away from the royal city. Unremarkable, that is, in a land where magic is so common that it [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2011, Review | 14 Comments
Etiquetas:fairy tale retold
The Thirteenth Princess
Author: Diane Zahler Publisher: Harper (2011) Pages: 243 Synopsis: Zita is not an ordinary servant girl – she’s the thirteenth daughter of a king who wanted only sons. When she was born, Zita’s father banished her to the servants’ quarters to work in the kitchens, where she can only communicate with her royal sisters in [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2011, Review | 2 Comments
Etiquetas:english review, fairy tale retold, ultimate reviewers challenge
Ondine: The Summer of Shambles
Author: Ebony McKenna Publisher: Egmont Books (2010) Pages: 336 Synopsis: One girl. One boy. One spell to be broken. Ondine de Groot is a normal fifteen-year-old who lives with her family in the European country of Brugel. She has a pet ferret called Shambles. But Shambles is no ordinary ferret…He’s Hamish McPhee, a boy cursed [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2010, Review | 4 Comments
Etiquetas:english review, fairy tale retold, so much fun, young adult
Beauty Tempts the Beast
Author: Leslie Dicken Publisher: Samhain Publishing (2010) Pages: 272 Synopsis: Is the enemy of her enemy a friend…or a beast? Lord Ashworth is scarred by a night of terror years ago that left his face in ruins and his life in shreds. He hides in Silverstone Manor, using rumors that paint him as a horrible, [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2010, Review | 2 Comments
Etiquetas:english review, erotic, fairy tale retold, mistério/suspense, ultimate reviewers challenge
Once Upon a Marigold
Autor: Jean Ferris Editora: Harcourt (2004) Páginas: 266 Idioma: Inglês Sinopse: Christian is gaga for Princess Marigold. He’s just a commoner, though, and no match for royalty. Heck, he lives in a cave with a troll! And now he’s discovered another reason to put his love-soggy heart on ice: Queen Olympia is scheming to take [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2010, Review | 2 Comments
Etiquetas:fairy tale retold
Beastly
Autor: Alex Flinn Editora: HarperCollins (2007) Páginas: 336 Idioma: Inglês Sinopse: I am a beast. A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright – a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster. You think I’m talking fairy [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2010, Review | 2 Comments
Etiquetas:adaptação livro-filme, fairy tale retold, fantasia
Goose Chase
Autor: Patrice Kindl Editora: Puffin (2002) Páginas: 216 Idioma: Inglês Sinopse: Her name is Alexandria Aurora Fortunato, and she is as lovely as the dawn. But that is only one of her problems. There’s also the matter of those three magical gifts of treasure bestowed on her by a mysterious old woman. And King Claudio [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2010, Review | 12 Comments
Etiquetas:fairy tale retold, fantasia, so much fun
Sangue-do-Coração
Autor: Juliet Marillier Editora: Bertrand (2010) Páginas 400 Idioma: Português Sinopse: Uma floresta assombrada. Um castelo amaldiçoado. Uma jovem que foge do seu passado e um homem que é mais do que parece ser. Uma história de amor, traição e redenção… Whistling Tor é um lugar de segredos, uma colina arborizada e misteriosa que alberga [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2010, Uncategorized | 4 Comments
Etiquetas:fairy tale retold, fantasia, romance histórico
E o acontecimento literário do ano na fantasia tem finalmente nome em português e capa, e só faltam 12 dias para o lançamento, nada mal, não vos parece? E reza assim a sinopse do mais recente retelling de Beauty and the Beast: Uma floresta assombrada. Um castelo amaldiçoado. Uma rapariga a fugir ao seu passado [...]
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Etiquetas:fairy tale retold
Princess of the Midnight Ball
Autor: Jessica Day George Editora: Bloomsbury Páginas: 304 Idioma: Inglês Sinopse: Returning home from the war, young Galen finds work with his mother’s family in the royal gardens. There he learns that the king’s twelve daughters have a secret: every night they dance their shoes to tatters, but no one knows how or why. When [...]
Filed under: Lidos em 2010, Review | 4 Comments
Etiquetas:fairy tale retold, fantasia
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