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ClareR (6256 KP) rated Gorse in Books

Jun 24, 2025  
Gorse
Gorse
Sam K Horton | 2025 | Fiction & Poetry, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction/Fantasy
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Gorse was an absolute delight! Atmospheric, dark, lots of fae, folklore and rich in 18th century Cornwall beliefs and attitudes. In Gorse, superstition, fae and religion collide - and the result isn’t pretty.

I loved all the fae: both friends and enemies, the power that the main character, Nancy, could draw from the land and the religious zealot who had a habit of messing things up by ignoring the true laws of the land (and those laws aren’t tied to Christianity).

Very enjoyable.
  
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Ande Thomas (69 KP) rated Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1) in Books

May 30, 2019  
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Akata Witch (Akata Witch, #1)
Nnedi Okorafor | 2011
6
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Okay, don't get me wrong. I can see what people see in this series. I don't know what I thought I'd expect considering I generally don't like fantasy, and I definitely don't like Harry Potter. It's just not my jam. In many ways, Akata Witch is very HP, just in Nigeria. In other ways, it's so steeped in African mythology, it's a true breath of fresh air from the normally very European folklore that fantasy so often draws from. It's definitely a book I'd recommend.
  
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ace_in_space (38 KP) rated Lore in Podcasts

Jul 12, 2018  
Lore
Lore
Society & Culture
8
8.8 (35 Ratings)
Podcast Rating
Weird or spooky history and folklore, sometimes cryptids
A well-researched show that gives facts and insights into everything from big foot to serial killers to Amityville horror. It goes all over the place, which I both like and dislike, but I always download it right when comes out. There are (melo)dramatic pauses, inferences about what people were feeling, and putting some reactions and stories into local and historic context. All presented in a soothing baritone. So, if that's what you're into, you'll love Lore.
  
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Emma (229 KP) rated The Snowmelt River in Books

Mar 10, 2021  
The Snowmelt River
The Snowmelt River
Frank P Ryan | 2010 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I picked this book as an irish theme for my book club.
At first I struggled with it, for the first 200 pages his over excessive use of description really bugged me and I found myself skim reading parts of it.
And although I really love Irish mythology and folklore, his use of it seemed irrelevant in places. As though he was trying to show off with the amount of folklore he knew.
After a while though the story started to flow better, and it captured my attention a lot more. I connected to the characters more and enjoyed the adventure in the story. There were still parts where I didnt exactly know what was going on. It seemed sometimes that the author was only half including you in the story he was envisioning in his mind.
I also didnt feel there was much need for a love story between two of the teenage characters, I felt that those parts were slightly cringey to read and thought the atory would have evolved just aswell without it included.
In all though I enjoyed it and will read the next installment.
  
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Cori June (3033 KP) rated Le Morte Darthur: Selections in Books

Dec 3, 2018  
Le Morte Darthur: Selections
Le Morte Darthur: Selections
Thomas Malory, Maureen Okun | 2014 | Essays
4
5.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
Finally finished! Not a horrible book as a collection of semi continuous folklore tales go, if you can get through the old English and realizing words don't have the same meaning as they do today. How I think of worship is not what they meant at all, at all. And there are No Quotations to let you know who is saying what. Favorite phrase is "wonderfully wroth." Just don't forget: an can mean and, but,or if. But can mean and. And if can mean anything.
Just don't get lost in the confusion of pronouns.