![Book Review: Hook’s Tale by John Leonard Pielmeier [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Hooks-Tale-by-John-Leonard-Pielmeier-310x310.jpg)
James Cook III runs away from Eton after an incident, gets conscripted into the British Navy by a press gang at the age of 14, and ends up in Neverland. His time there, and everything he learns about his past, changes him. He claims Barrie's tale is incorrect, so this is the story of his life, as told by...
In Vicious, two men decide to give themselves supernatural abilities, but it doesn’t quite turn out how they planned. In The Night Circus, two magicians are pitted against each other in a lifelong contest, using a magical traveling circus as their playing field. In Lost Boy, James tells the tale of how he started out in Neverland as a Lost Boy and eventually became Captain Hook. Enjoy (or maybe...
![Book Review: The Henchmen of Zenda by KJ Charles [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Henchmen-of-Zenda-by-KJ-Charles-310x310.jpg)
Jasper Detchard is recruited to be part of the inner circle of Michael, brother to the soon-to-be king of Ruritania, but his loyalty lies with Michael's mistress, a friend who once saved his life. Things go awry for Michael and his men when their attempt to steal the throne fails and an imposter shows up to the king's coronation, and Jasper will have to balance various different plots and plans...
![Book Review: Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Spare-and-Found-Parts-by-Sarah-Maria-Griffin-310x310.jpg)
Nell lives in a small post-apocalyptic city in a future where computers are banned and people are born with missing body parts, which her father, the brilliant Dr. Crane, replaces with biomechanic limbs. Nell needs to think of a contribution to society that will live up to her parents', and when she finds a mannequin hand, she has the perfect idea---artificial...
![Book Review: Never Never by Brianna R. Shrum [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Never-Never-by-Brianna-R.-Shrum-310x310.jpg)
Thirteen-year-old James Hook agrees to go to Neverland with the enchanting and odd Peter Pan on the grounds that he'll be able to come back home, only to find once he's there that he's stuck there forever. When he grows too old to be a Lost Boy anymore, he joins his pirate crew and becomes the fiercest captain on the...
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...
![Book Review: The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Afterlife-of-Holly-Chase-by-Cynthia-Hand-310x310.jpg)
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...
![Book Review: Beauty and His Beast by Bey Deckard [Audiobook]](https://blog.kristenburns.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Beauty-and-His-Beast-by-Bey-Deckard-310x310.jpg)
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...
