2013 Telling Tales Challenge Recap

2013 Telling Tales Reading Challenge

Challenge:  Telling Tales Challenge
Host:  An Armchair by the Sea
2013 Level: Princess (10 books) - FAILED!
Thoughts:  I love this subgenre, but I didn't get to many at all this year :(
1. Rennefarre by Tamara Ramsey
2. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
3. Scottish Wonder Tales from Myths and Legends by Donald A. Mackenzie
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Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend

Title: Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend
Author:  Donald A. Mackenzie

Publisher: Dover
ISBN: 0-486-29677-6

Why Read?: For Fun
Challenges: Telling Tales, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: I did enjoy some of the stories in this book, but the format of the stories was just odd.  Some stories flowed right from one to another; and some did not really flow well and were mashed together with no transition.  The story I liked the best was also the longest, "The Land of the Green Mountian", which has the feel of a true fairy tale.

Rating: 2 stars

2013 Telling Tales Reading Challenge

Challenge:  Telling Tales Challenge
Host:  An Armchair by the Sea
2012 Level:  Mix-n-Match Level 1 (5 books) - COMPLETED!
2013 Level: Princess (10 books)

1. Rennefarre by Tamara Ramsey
2. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
3. Scottish Wonder Tales from Myths and Legends by Donald A. Mackenzie
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Telling Tales Challenge Recap

Challenge:  Telling Tales Challenge
Host:  An Armchair by the Sea
2012 Level:  Mix-n-Match Level 1 (5 books) - COMPLETED!
Thoughts:  Loved this challenge - a must for next year!Books:
1. Entwined by Heather Dixon
2. Albino by E. J. Dabel
3. Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown
4. Initiate by Tara Maya
5. Wraith's Forest by L. J. Leger

Initiate

Title: Initiate

Author: Tara Maya
Publisher: n/a
ISBN: n/a
Why Read?: For Fun
Challenges:  Why Buy the Cow? (Kindle), YA Mythology, Telling Tales, Self-Published, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: This is a very unique story with a lot of threads that lead up to one heck of a cliffhanger.  At first, it took a while to get into because it is told from so many points of view, but once everyone is introduced and the exposition is over, the story really picks up.

Rating: 4 stars

Entwined

Title: Entwined

Author: Heather Dixon
Publisher: HarperTeen
ISBN: 978-0-06-207703-5
Why Read?: Book Club
Challenges:  YA/MG Fantasy, Telling Tales, A to Z, Once Upon a Time, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: This was such a sweet, cute, romantic fantasy!  I really wanted to live the the slightly magic castle.  The only problem I had with it is it took a while to get to the fairy tale part, and even then it was a few pages before I realized it was based on "The Twelve Dancing Princesses".

Rating: 4 stars

Telling Tales Challenge

Challenge:  Telling Tales Challenge
Host:  An Armchair by the Sea
2011 Level: n/a
2012 Level:  Mix-n-Match Level 1 (5 books)


1. Entwined by Heather Dixon
2. Albino by E. J. Dabel
3. Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown
4. Initiate by Tara Maya
5. Wraith's Forest by L. J. Leger