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Top Ten Tuesday: Thou Art a Villain

By Kasey | October 24, 2018 - 7:00 am |October 24, 2018 Fantasy, Lists, News and Fun, Young Adult/Teen 12-18

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) is about amazing book villains. While there is no shortage of memorable villainish characters out there, I wanted to go a little bit of a different direction with my post and focus on stories that repaint a well-known villain or villain archetype as the story’s protagonist. So here we go.

Elphaba in Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

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Top Ten Tuesday: When You’re In the Mood for Folk and Fairytales

By Kasey | March 1, 2016 - 7:00 am |May 2, 2018 Blogger's Favorites, Fantasy, Lists, Middle Grade 8-12, News and Fun, Young Adult/Teen 12-18

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Top Ten Tuesday is a Weekly Meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is about finding books to fit our moods. Recently I read a post about some fairytales with a new twist, and it made me think of a few that I’m excited about. I’ve posted a list of books based on Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and stories about Merlin before, because I LOVE folk tales and fairytales retold. But this will be a fresh new list. Most of these books I’ve already read and reviewed, but there are a few I haven’t gotten to yet but am super excited to read.