Review Tour Stop: Boy With the Hidden Name by Skylar Dorset

“Romantic, suspenseful, and witty all at once–Alice in Wonderland meets Neverwhere.” –Claudia Gray, New York Times bestselling author of the Evernight series

THE BOY WITH THE HIDDEN NAME 

Otherworld Duology, Book Two

by Skylar Dorset

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ISBN-13: 978-1402292569 // Pages: 320
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
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“Benedict Le Fay will betray you. And then he will die.”

Betrayal and death—not quite the prophecy Selkie wanted about her first love. A half-faerie princess with a price on her head, Selkie Stewart just wants a little normal in her life. Not another crazy prophecy. Besides, she and Ben are a team. They’re the two most wanted individuals in the Otherworld, and fated to bring down the Seelie Fairie Court and put an end to their reign of terror. Nothing can come between them.

Until Ben leaves.
And the sun goes out.
And the chiming bells deafen all of Boston.

The Seelies are coming. And only Selkie can stop them from destroying the world.

IB Teen's mini-review to Boy With the Hidden Name:

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I cannot review this book without copious amounts of SPOILERS, so I'm doing a vague mini-review in which I gush with very little detail, because I'm BURSTING with the need to TELL YOU GUYS EVERYTHING! 

Swoon! Just as gorgeous and magical as the first book- and I MELTED in those last handful of paragraphs. Such a wonderful series. The Goblin King and his special super power were delicious, Will broke my heart, and Ben- I LOVE Ben and Selkie. And Kelsie is still the bestest friend ever. It left me feeling euphorically satisfied.

Adventure, romance, intrigue, quests, impossible tasks, terrible Mothers, torture, Kisses, sexy Goblins, player Wizards, paranoid ogres, lunatic fathers, time is not time, and reality which is not reality, evil Seelie Faeries, and more mythical creatures than I can list. What is not to love?

My reactions for The Boy With the Hidden Name:

🌹❤️💋🌸@SkylarDorset #BoyWithTheHiddenName those last few paragraphs were especially perfect! My heart melted🌸❤️💋🌹 pic.twitter.com/EFMriMUhWS
— Perla (@ibteen) September 16, 2014

@SkylarDorset A certain Goblin King had his seductive super power turned up since his non speaking cameo in Girl Who Never Was- swoon💕
— Perla (@ibteen) September 16, 2014

@ibteen A LOT, RIGHT? I told you! Would I lie? ;-)
— Skylar Dorset (@SkylarDorset) September 16, 2014

@ibteen It's about Merrow and Trow. :-)
— Skylar Dorset (@SkylarDorset) September 17, 2014

Get to know Skylar Dorset:

Skylar’s first story was a tale of romantic intrigue involving two feuding factions of squirrels. Think “Romeo & Juliet” but with bushy tails and added espionage. She was seven.

Since that time, Skylar’s head has been filled with lots of characters and lots of drama. She is delighted to be able to share some of it with all of you now, because, honestly, it was getting pretty loud and crowded in there.

Skylar is a born-and-bred New Englander, which is why Boston was a natural setting for her debut novel, THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS. Skylar shares her home with a cardboard cutout of the Tenth Doctor, lots of Mardi Gras beads from the time she spent living in New Orleans, and a harp she’s supposed to be teaching herself to play. She’d like to get a dog

               

One Last Thing:

THE GIRL WHO READ THE STARS
An Otherworld Duology Novella, Book 1.5
by Skylar Dorset
A FREE NOVELLA 
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Pages: 160
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“Utterlly charming... echoes of Neil Gaiman's STARDUST, of Diana Wynne Jones' FIRE AND HEMLOCK.” — Erika Koch Utsler, Amazon on The Girl Who Never Was 


 Set after Skylar Dorset’s debut The Girl Who Never Was and before the thrilling conclusion to her Otherworld duology, The Boy With the Hidden Name, this novella is told from the perspective of Merrow, the Fay of the Summer Equinox. Merrow could tell is was going to be a good school year because Jupiter was moving into her constellation. Merrow read the stars...well, sometimes she got a feeling anyway. The stars were always dancing — they were difficult to understand. And then there was Trow. He was a new boy at school and Merrow got a feeling... Which is weird because she’s never minded being on her own before. (She wasn’t exactly popular.) But there was something about Trow. And a prophecy and fate and danger and love — if only the stars would hold still.

My very last word about The Girl Who Read the Stars:

This is a must read before Boy With the Hidden Name, otherwise Merrow and Trow show up outta thin air.

Dust City by Robert Paul Weston - Awesome!

DUST CITY
by Robert Paul Weston
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Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

His son, that's who.

Ever since his father's arrest for the murder of Little Red Riding Hood, teen wolf Henry Whelp has kept a low profile in a Home for Wayward Wolves . . . until a murder at the Home leads Henry to believe his father may have been framed.

Now, with the help of his kleptomaniac roommate, Jack, and a daring she-wolf named Fiona, Henry will have to venture deep into the heart of Dust City; a rundown, gritty metropolis where fairydust is craved by everyone and controlled by a dangerous mob of Water Nixies and their crime boss leader, Skinner.

Can Henry solve the mystery of his family's sinister past? Or, like his father before him, is he destined for life as a big bad wolf?

REVIEW
I was so impressed with Henry Welp, he's a complex character who's sensitive, tough, smart, & determined, and very much haunted by the crimes of his father and what it means about the savageness of his baser nature. I wanted to roll around on his fur and  live in his universe. It's an amazing and richly complex new world that's grisly, gritty, and unflinchingly-Grimmly-violent


Keeping in the spirit of the more sinister side of the Brothers Grimm, Dust City is gritty and hard-boiled as it is fantastical. When I began to read and it was as if I'd suddenly fallen down the rabbit hole, the next thing I knew the sun was coming up and I felt as if I'd only just blinked! It's a fast and fascinating ride full of characters that are so full and colorful you either love them, fear them, or you really really want them to get what's coming to them.


Even though I feel that this story is complete, there is a lot of life and mystery to be explored in the Dust City Universe. I'd love to be allowed to take a new peek into this enthralling world. Yet the author has said he has zero plans on a sequel. But let me tell you this  Mr. Weston, I haven't had enough of Henry, Fiona, Roy, Detective White (she's a real doozy!) and Jack, hell even Siohban and her super cute grandma would be entertaining!


This is a magical world, but there's no wand waving making everything perfect. I respect the maturity and seriousness infused into a book based on a fairytale world. The funny and sweet moments of the story endeared these characters into my heart.


What a wonderful and awesomely talented author. Please read this book, read the prologue and if you are able to put it down I will be shocked.