Book Reviews
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
Genre: Children's fantasy Overall rating: 5/5 Literary value: 5/5 Lewis is probably my gold standard as a writer. Certainly some writers are more eloquent or complex than he is, but for sheer readability combined with beautiful prose, Lewis wins every time....
Waking Beauty by Sarah E. Morin
Genre: Christian Fairy-Tale Retelling Overall Rating: 4.5/5 Literary Value: 4.5/5 Waking Beauty is well-written, but the writing occasionally left me confused on what was happening. This wasn’t so much a sentence-level issue as a scene-level issue, and part of it...
Calor, by J. J. Fischer
Genre: Christian Fantasy Overall Rating: 5/5 I came into this book biased against it. Why, you may ask? Well, because the title is in Latin—and since I’ve spent 10 years studying Latin, I’m frequently annoyed by authors who seem to think they can spend 20 minutes on...
Dust, by Kara Swanson
Genre: Young Adult Urban Fantasy Overall Rating: 5/5 I don’t like retellings, and I really don’t like Peter Pan. Since Dust is a retelling of Peter Pan, I came into it with some skepticism. But I absolutely loved it. 🙂 Literary value: 4/5 For someone used to Austen...