Tag: dark fantasy
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the collector’s lost things: chapter one
– 1 – ‘There was another one last night.’ Rei-Hai Shaw stirred extra honey into his lumpy porridge as Lylen and Elles leant in to hear the morning’s gossip. Norvar set down his breakfast tray and slipped into a chair before continuing his story. ‘Thirty-seventh floor,’ the dark Qhoraakese man continued, cracking open his bread…
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the darkest part of the forest
Holly Black takes something so ordinary, so relatable to the modern adolescent, and juxtaposes it against the profoundly extraordinary. After a dismal run of DNF and one-star reads, Holly Black‘s The Darkest Part of the Forest was a pure delight. I have to confess, ten years ago, I never would have picked up this book:…