My Review: Snow. Glass. Apples. The images are iconic, aren’t they? Snow White. Mirror Glass. Poison Apples. Howsomever, particularly considering that he was married to a woman who might as well be Maleficent, the King of this little fantasy kingdom is actually a rather decent - and somewhat nondescript - man. Also a desperate one. His 12-year-old daughter, Snow, seems to be dying by inches - and it's not an easy or an easy death.

Blood of the Old Kings is a Korean novel translated to English.  As I’ve found with other writers from other countries there is a distinct type of storytelling/flow that  wasn’t specifically what...

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My Review: Pearl City is the end of the vast, sprawling, truly epic saga that began in Ebony Gate, and continued in Blood Jade. It’s marvelous and utterly compelling every step of Emiko Soong’s winding, twisted, churning way - and I was left both sad and smiling at the end. Sad because the journey is over - at least for the reader.