Everyone knows Drosselmeier as the mysterious toymaker and godfather to the Stahlbaum children who gifts them with a Nutcracker one Christmas Eve. From his childhood as a foundling in a forest, to his confusing teen and young adult years with different families in Germany, to his old age making toys for Klara, this book tells the story of his...
Books with Classification: Genre: Retelling
One Christmas Eve, Holly was visited by three ghosts who urged her to change her ways, but she didn't listen. Five years later, she's spending her afterlife working for that very same company as the Ghost of Christmas Past and hating every minute of it, until she unexpectedly finds herself relating to their newest...
Juniper Bo wakes from 17 years in a stasis pod to find himself on a strange ship containing no one but a grouchy captain and two AIs with far more personality than normal. Captain Marrex, exiled due to a curse, has been lonely and starts to enjoy the company of Juniper but fears the human will never actually...
It's Christmas Eve, and Clara is shocked when the Nutcracker she received from her Uncle Drosselmeyer comes to life and she finds herself helping him fight a battle against the Mouse King. They escape to his land, Winterdream, where Clara learns she just might be the key to breaking his curse and saving the...
In Persephone, the Greek God Hades gets shot with a love arrow and falls in love. In iZombie Vol. 4, Gwen and friends have to deal with a zombie apocalypse and other supernatural happenings. In Plume, Vesper and her supernatural guardian travel through the Old West on a quest for revenge. Enjoy my mini reviews for these three graphic...
Victor has sworn off alchemy, but the torment of an unkept promise and the allure of a strange box he finds in the ashes of the Dark Library tempt him into new territory---the spirit world. Victor's good intentions quickly turn to dangerous obsession, and Victor, Konrad, Elizabeth, and Henry may be in even more danger with each foray into this other...
Seventeen-year-old James wants adventure, so when his father tries to push him into a life of banking, he stows away on the Jolly Roger and accidentally becomes part of a pirate crew on their trip to Never Land. Between brewing faerie tensions, murderous pirates, near-death experiences, and love, he certainly gets an adventure, but it doesn't turn out to be quite the one he'd hoped...
This anthology has five stories, each inspired in their way by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In one, a man uses Victor's notes to figure out how to make his own creation. In the next, a couple combines taxidermy and science to resurrect a beautiful woman. In another, a man recalls his young life and his run-in with a monster. In yet another, a detective takes on a case involving stolen body parts....
When Victor's twin, Konrad, comes down with a mysterious illness, Victor, Elizabeth, and Henry set out to use alchemy to make an elixir that will heal him. But many things stand in their way, including dangerous quests to get ingredients, Victor's father, and Victor's struggle with his own feelings toward his brother and...
Lizzie has enough to deal with, being the first female medical student at Ingold, but then she comes across Victor, a bio-mechanical who seems more human than reanimated corpse, unlike all the others. Victor's memory is still fuzzy, but he's pretty sure he was murdered and that something sinister is going on. Victor doesn't want Lizzie putting herself in danger, but Lizzie is determined to figure...