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The Witches of Tanglewood #3
Goddess Stories
In this third and final book of the series, a terrible tragedy has befallen the witches of Tanglewood. They have lost one of their most beloved family members.
Racked with grief, Nat jumps into The Goddess Stories book to find her in his own history and bring her back to the world. The problem is that Nat has not returned.
With the absence of the goddess, a terrible storm has taken over. It is a force greater than anything Camille can manage, and it threatens to destroy their world.
Natalie, his anchor child, has no choice but to go after Nat and bring him home. She travels through time, visiting goddess after goddess, searching for Nat among the histories of powerful people.
The only question is can she find him in time?
Racked with grief, Nat jumps into The Goddess Stories book to find her in his own history and bring her back to the world. The problem is that Nat has not returned.
With the absence of the goddess, a terrible storm has taken over. It is a force greater than anything Camille can manage, and it threatens to destroy their world.
Natalie, his anchor child, has no choice but to go after Nat and bring him home. She travels through time, visiting goddess after goddess, searching for Nat among the histories of powerful people.
The only question is can she find him in time?
222 pages, Paperback
First published March 17, 2022
About the author
Michelle Rene
11 books60 followersMichelle Rene is a creative advocate and the author of a number of published works of historical fiction and speculative fiction.
She has won multiple indie awards. Her novel, Hour Glass, won Chanticleer Review’s “Best Book of the Year” award in 2018. Her experimental novella, Tattoo, was a Foreword Review’s Indies finalist for fantasy. The Dodo Knight, a historical novella, placed as a finalist with the Next Gen Indie Book Awards. Her YA historical fantasy, Manufactured Witches, won the OZMA award for fantasy, the Discovery Award from the Writer's League of Texas, and was honored by the Indie Author Project as Texas’s best YA novel in 2019.
When not writing, she is a professional artist, museum lover, belly dancer, and autism mom. She lives as the only female with her husband, son, and ungrateful cat in Dallas, Texas.
To learn more about her, check out her website http://www.michellereneauthor.com/
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February 22, 2022
I was initially going to give 3 stars (3.5 stars rounded down), but I just couldn’t bring myself to leave this book with an “average” rating of 3 stars. It really is better than just 3, so 4 it is!
This is the 3rd installment of the series The Witches of Tanglewood. Almost the entire narrative follows the anchor child named Natalie of the goddess Nat as she attempts to retrieve Nat from a book housing all the past goddesses’ stories. He is overcome with grief over a tragedy that apparently took place in the second book (I’m trying not to include spoilers, but it’s pretty clear right away what happened). I’ll be completely upfront and say that after reading the first book, I wasn’t really interested in reading the 2nd, so I skipped straight to this ARC for review. The beginning and end of the book are fabulous. The ending is particularly well-done and left me with warm fuzzies for days.
I have to say, though, that the middle of the book is kind of… long. At one point I actually annotated on my kindle that it “felt like it was dragging on” and that “although the descriptions of faraway places and times were interesting, there’s not much of a plot so far. She’s just getting aimlessly shuffled from one time period to another.”
That said, Rene’s writing is excellent. This would be an excellent choice for the upper middle grade to YA crowd, especially if there is interest in historical time periods.
I received a free ARC ebook through LibraryThing’s early reviewers program. All opinions are my own.
This is the 3rd installment of the series The Witches of Tanglewood. Almost the entire narrative follows the anchor child named Natalie of the goddess Nat as she attempts to retrieve Nat from a book housing all the past goddesses’ stories. He is overcome with grief over a tragedy that apparently took place in the second book (I’m trying not to include spoilers, but it’s pretty clear right away what happened). I’ll be completely upfront and say that after reading the first book, I wasn’t really interested in reading the 2nd, so I skipped straight to this ARC for review. The beginning and end of the book are fabulous. The ending is particularly well-done and left me with warm fuzzies for days.
I have to say, though, that the middle of the book is kind of… long. At one point I actually annotated on my kindle that it “felt like it was dragging on” and that “although the descriptions of faraway places and times were interesting, there’s not much of a plot so far. She’s just getting aimlessly shuffled from one time period to another.”
That said, Rene’s writing is excellent. This would be an excellent choice for the upper middle grade to YA crowd, especially if there is interest in historical time periods.
I received a free ARC ebook through LibraryThing’s early reviewers program. All opinions are my own.
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