Reseña: The Crown of Ptolemy (Percy Jackson & Kane Chronicles Crossover #3)

The Crown of Ptolemy (Percy Jackson & Kane Chronicles Crossover #3)

by 

Rick Riordan

 

ebook, 63 pages

Published May 12th 2015 by Disney-Hyperion 

ISBN:148470987X (ISBN13: 9781484709870)

Edition Language:English

Series:Percy Jackson & Kane Chronicles Crossover #3

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

My Bookshelves dioses-y-semidioses, fantasia-urbana, myth-and-legends, novelette-short, teen-protagonist, ya-juvenil

Maybe is for really young kids, but that kind of humor it feel cartoon-ish to me.

I enjoy Percy Jackson books, but not the brothers Kane ones (specially Sadie, who keeps making fun of her brother for liking research and books in her eyes been boring).

Anyway, Setne wants to be a god. Not good. So they joined forces against him. Apart for some ideas -dispise really juvenile jokes- is not a good story.

A pity.

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Reseña: Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo

Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo 

 by  

Rick Riordan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

bookshelves: myth-and-legends, dioses-y-semidioses, 2016-readings, short-story, greek-mythology, musicians, adventure

Esta historia corta forma parte de una antologia de varios autores Guys Read: Other Worlds.

Es el cumpleaños de Grover, y Apolo viene con una tarea demandante ... relacionada con la música. No digo más porque lo contaria todo.

Why can't you just go?"
"I don't have time, I've got to practice! I've got to write a set list, do sound checks. Besides, that's what you heroes are for."
"Running the gods' errands."
"Exactly!" Apollo spread his hands.

Rápida y entretiene, sin mayores demandas ;)

Reseña: Fighting Demons (Hunting Monsters, 2)

http://thebooksmugglers.com/2015/09/fighting-demons-by-s-l-huang.html

Esta es la continuación de Hunting Monsters.

Fighting Demons 

by

S.L. Huang

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


bookshelves: fantasy, 2016-readings, short-story, demons


 Xiao Hong travels to her mother’s homeland in pursuit of Rosa in the sequel to Hunting Monsters




Family love and Duty are complicated matters, even more with different culture backgrounds.



Me fue dificil seguir la historia entre tanto nombre semejante; en todo caso, senti más simpatia por el chico que por la chica.

Reseña: Hunting Monsters

http://thebooksmugglers.com/2014/10/hunting-monsters-by-s-l-huang.html

Hunting Monsters 

 by S.L. Huang

ebook, 50 pages

Published October 7th 2014 by Book Smugglers

Bookshelves 2016-readings, fantasy, hexed-cursed, retold-fairytale, short-story

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Beautiful cover


Interesting short tale about a girl , with suggestions to many others fairy tales as (spoiler) --->[: Rosaflor y Blancanieve, La Bella y la Bestia, Caperucita Roja, Barba Negra... (hide spoiler)]
Rosaflor y Blancanieve, La Bella y la Bestia, Caperucita Roja, Barba Negra...

A una chica siempre le han enseñado tener precaución al cazar animales, después de todo, ese animal bien pudiera ser un humano que se transforma en animal maldecido por una bruja u otra cosa... pero un día ella descubre algo que puede cambiar como ve a su familia.

Reseña: Guardian of the Dead

Popsugar 2016: 37. Un libro sobre una cultura con la que no estés familiarizado.

Guardian of the Dead 

by Karen Healey

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

 bookshelves: teen-protagonist, fantasia-urbana, fantasy-paranormal, 2016-readings, myth-and-legends, magia, not-sure-but-not-human, new-zealand-mythology, ya-juvenil

                         3,5 mythological stars

“You’ll see the big stories, the ones that have formed the shape of the world around you. And you carry your own mythologies with you, so you can see the stories that are important to you, the ones that parts of you believe.”

Eleanor Spencer is a good girl, so after her mother survives cancer and wants to spend some quality time traveling with her husband, she offers attend a boarding school.

(Points for not whining about it. )

Then, paranormal stuff happen. Cute guys. Some crazy murders aside.

Reseña: Firebug (Firebug #1)

Firebug 

by  

Lish McBride

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4,5 flaming stars

The Coterie, the magical mafia, don't give a second chance. Enter the assasins. Ava is owned for life by the Coterie since she was 13 y.o., she is a firebug and has no scape for that kind of life, her dangerous talent is used for kill other magicals by orders of Venus (the vampire boss who kills Ava's mom). Her best-friends: Ezra a werefox, and Lock a half-dryad are her team (tithes indebted until their 25 b-day)

Reseña: Firebug (Firebug #0.5)

http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/12/burnt-sugar-lish-mcbride

Burnt Sugar 

 by Lish McBride

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Un equipo de 'cobradores' de una mafia sobrenatural va a poner fin al moroso, pero se encuentran con algo oscuro en el bosque.

“Neither of you read the file, did you?” Lock said accusingly.
“I skimmed it.” I said. “Something about collecting money, blah blah blah.”
“I looked at the pictures,” Ezra added.
“There weren’t any pictures.”

Adventure and some fairytale twist . Entertaining :)

(again, love the cover-art)

Reseña: "Trust"

Trust by Jodi Baker

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Kane Chronicles (R. Riordan) meets City of Bones (C.Claire) Sort of.