Books by Colleen Houck and Complete Book Reviews
Colleen Houck, Sterling/Splinter, $17.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8403-3
Houck's debut YA fantasy, which she self-published in 2009, is richly imagined, but pacing and technique lag behind her inventiveness. Eighteen-year-old Kelsey Hayes gets a temporary summer job working at a one-ring circus that features a white...
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Colleen Houck. Delacorte, $17.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-37656-3
When high school senior Lilliana Young becomes mystically tethered to a resurrected Egyptian mummy, her upper-crust, micromanaged New York City lifestyle is turned upside down. Lilliana and Amon, the resurrected prince and carrier of the Eye of...
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Colleen Houck. Delacorte, $17.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-55572-5
This standalone fantasy from Houck (the Tiger’s Curse series) focuses on 17-year-old witch Ember O’Dare and Jack, an immortal “lantern” whose soul resides inside a pumpkin and whose job it is to guard the crossroads linking the Otherworld to Ember’s
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