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Tag Archives: Mercedes Lackey
Godmothers and Fairy Tales and Tradition
I’ve been reading my way through Mercedes Lackey’s 500 Kingdom series, and I keep meaning to review each book…but I reviews piled up and I haven’t got to them. So I thought maybe I’d better review the series on a … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Reviews
Tagged 500 Kingdoms, book reviews, books, fairy tales, Mercedes Lackey, reading, The Fairy Godmother, The Tradition
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Fairy Tale Round-up: Sleeping Beauty
A look at another classic fairy tale this week: Sleeping Beauty. Like Cinderella, it shows up in the Brothers Grimm and in Charles Perrault. Grimm gives us a very brief story, “Little Briar Rose,” about a princess who is cursed … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged book reviews, books, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Disney, E. D. Baker, fairy tales, Jim C. Hines, Mercedes Lackey, Robin McKinley, Sleeping Beauty, Spindle's End
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A Former Cinderella Finds a Job
The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey is a great two-challenges-for-one-book, fitting neatly into the Once Upon a Time challenge, and also my Finishing the Series challenge. It’s actually the first book in Lackey’s 500 Kingdoms series, but somehow I contrived … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Reviews
Tagged book review, books, Cinderella, fairy tales, fantasy, magic, Mercedes Lackey, reading, The Fairy Godmother, The Five Hundred Kingdoms
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