• Tiger Moon

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:94 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:4.7★ Rating:94 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:4.7★ Rating:94 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:4.7★ Rating:94 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:4.7½ Rating:94 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:4.794%
    Tiger Moon
    Antonia Michaelis
    Amulet Books, 2008
    Fantasy
    ISBN:081099481X
    464 pages
    Awards

    Synopsis

    Safia, a beautiful woman from the deserts of India, is traded as property by her father to a wealthy but evil merchant. Seeking to free herself from this plight, she befriends one of the palace servants, a eunuch named Lagan. During the nights where the two engage in conversation, Safia weaves a story of a young thief named Farhad. This young man, the unlikeliest of heroes, is called to rescue a princess from the Demon King, and in order to do so, he must go on a quest to find the Bloodstone. Farhad finds strange help along the way, especially when he rescues a white tiger and rides him across the desert to the palace. Eventually, the two stories begin to intertwine, and Lagan realizes that he must make a choice that may jeopardize his own safety.

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    Across The Wall

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:59 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:2.95★ Rating:59 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:2.95½ Rating:59 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:2.95☆ Rating:59 Fraction:2.95☆ Rating:59 Fraction:2.9559%
    Across the Wall (companion book – The Abhorsen Trilogy)
    Garth Nix
    EOS, 2005
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0060747137
    320 pages

    Synopsis

    The main story of this collection, “Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case” takes readers back to the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre, with a short story about Nicholas facing an Old Kingdom creature within the boundaries of Ancelstierre.

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