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H. Halverstadt Books
DUST by Kara Swanson
Four Stars
Claire is an emotional mess. In addition to losing her beloved twin brother and only family six years earlier, she has some kind of skin condition that causes flakes the color of...
Mossflower (Brian Jacques)
4 1/2 stars
In the dead of winter, Martin, a lone mouse warrior, wanders into Mossflower woods and is captured by a wildcat warlord’s troops, who are seizing...
The Line Between (Tosca Lee)
5 Stars
"Conventional wisdom dictates that there's an insurmountable divide- an entire eternity of time and space-between Heaven and Hell...I can tell you it's closer to a foot and a half. The distance of a...
Rhats! (Kerry Nietz)
4 ½ stars
Frohic needs to make it home, ideally without being killed in some unpleasant way. He's a muto (or rhat), a small, rodent-like species that has a...
PARANORMIA by Paul Regnier
Five Stars
Do you remember those cartoons that featured a tiny devil on one shoulder and a tiny angel on the other of a character struggling to make a moral choice? The main character,...
THE KING’S SWORD by C. J. Brightley
Five Stars
An ex-soldier, Kemen Sendoa, is not so much retired as left for dead after his squad was ambushed by a barbaric people north of the kingdom of Erdemen. He is wandering through...
The Crescent Stone (Matt Mikalatos)
Five Stars
This was one of the most interesting YA fantasies I've ever read! Matt Mikalatos has combined the tropes of high fantasy with present-day life of teenagers in real trouble.
Madeline is dying of...
Runt The Brave (Daniel Schwabauer)
4 1/2 stars
JaRed the mouse, son of ReDemec, was minding his own business when Ta'Mir the seer decided to anoint him as the next king of Tira-Nor. He didn't do him any favors. This...
Dragon’s Future (Dragon Courage, Book One) (Kandi J. Wyatt)
4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
For generations, the village of Woolpren has lived in peace, building its way of life upon the symbiosis of humans and dragons. The dream of every child is to become a dragon rider....
Star Wolf (David G. Johnson)
4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Star Wolf is set in a future where man inhabits the stars. The empire of Humaniti consists of several different nations with different theological stances. One is atheist, and two espouse Christianity but...
