Showing posts with label thea stilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thea stilton. Show all posts

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Book Review: The Witch of Ash by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #11)

  Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #11: Strega delle cenere.

Book eleven time! Almost done with this series. Spoilers ahead.

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Book Review: The Witch of Storms by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #10)

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #10: Strega delle Tempeste.


Book ten time! Spoilers ahead.

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Book Review: The Witch of Sound by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #9)

   Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #9: Strega del suono.

Another installment. Spoilers ahead.

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Book Review: The Witch of Flames by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #8)

 

 

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #8: Strega delle Fiamme.

We return to the realm of Fantasy Kingdom, this time with a new adventure regarding the Witches. Spoilers ahead.

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Book Review: The Witch of the Tides by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #7)

 

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #7: Strega delle Maree.

Let's take a look at the second arc in the Princesses of Fantasia series! Spoilers ahead!

Sunday, June 4, 2023

Book Review: The Riddle of Fire by Thea Stilton (Incanto #4)

 

  Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Incanto #4: L'enigma del fuoco.

The fourth book, and the last I'll review from this series. Like I said before, they stopped translating the Incanto series into Dutch after this one, and since I don't speak Italian and it has not been translated into another language I speak, my Incanto journey unfortunately has to end here. I don't mind it that much because so far this has definitely been the most underwhelming series I've read by Geronimo and Thea Stilton so far, but it's not outright bad, either. Just mostly harmless and simple. 

Let's have a look then, shall we? Spoilers ahead!

Monday, May 29, 2023

Book Review: The Princess of Darkness by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #5)


Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #5: Principessa del Buio.

Let's learn about Diamante and her kingdom this time around. Spoilers ahead!

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Book Review: The Magic of Memories by Thea Stilton (Incanto #3)

 

 Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Incanto #3: La magia dei ricordi.

Book three time! 

Before we dive in, I do have some sad news regarding my reviews of this series: I recently discovered that, despite this series being quite expansive in its number of books (fifteen total), my review of the next book will unfortunately have to be the last one. Not because I want to quit reading them, but simply because they have not been translated into Dutch past book four.

Normally my solution would be to read the English editions, but these books actually haven't been translated into English at all. And since I do not speak Italian or any of the other translated languages of the future books, I have no choice but to stop reviewing the series. I don't think that they'll be translating them into Dutch in the future, either, so it looks like my Incanto journey will have to end with book four. Unfortunate, but true.

Anyways, let's still have a look at book three, first! Spoilers ahead. 

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Book Review: The Forest Princess by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #4)

 

   Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #4: Principessa delle Foreste.

We return to the realm of Fantasy Kingdom once again! Spoilers ahead.

Sunday, January 22, 2023

Book Review: The Dream Guardian by Thea Stilton (Incanto #2)

 

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Incanto #2: Le Guardiane dei sogni.

Book two. I didn't expect I'd pick this one up so soon after the first but these do make for some quick and fun reads. Spoilers ahead.

Friday, January 13, 2023

Book Review: The Secret of the Prinsesses by Thea Stilton (Incanto #1)

 

 Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Incanto: Il Segreto delle Principesse.

Remember how I started reading that series Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom a bit ago? Okay, so I picked up this book by the same pen name because it looked promising. What I did not know going in is that it featured the same characters as Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom but in a completely different universe where the previous continuity has little to no bearing to what's going on. Let's review this thing. Spoilers ahead.

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Book Review: The Desert Princess by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #3)

 

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #3: Principessa del Deserto.

Book three! I've had mixed thoughts on this series so far, but I like it enough to continue reading. Spoilers ahead.

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Book Review: The Coral Prinses by Thea Stilton (Prinsesses of Fantasy Kingdom #2)

 

  Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principessa dei Coralli. 

This one spoke to me a whole lot less than the first book, mostly because of the lack of wolves and the presence of the sea/beach setting, but I do plan on continuing this series. Want to join me in this second book? Spoilers ahead.

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Book Review: The Ice Princess by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #1)

 

  Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #1: Principessa dei Ghiacci. I used the Dutch cover image because it is of a higher quality than the Italian one I could find.

Okay, so, fun fact, I used to love reading the Geronimo Stilton books. I used to not be a super big reader as a kid before I got introduced to those books. For those not in the know, they're (originally Italian) books written by the fictional pen name of a mouse and are about his misadventures. The Geronimo Stilton books are generally very playful tone-wise and visual-wise.

Later on, they also started to make spinoff books (supposedly) written by his sister, Thea Stilton. She wrote some of the same light-hearted books taking place in their mouse world but with the target audience being more-so girls than children in general. And later, spinoffs of the Thea (and Geronimo) Stilton books followed in various series, including the Fantasia/Kingdom of Fantasy series (more fantasy-oriented), which this is a spinoff off, and some historical literal classics (such as The Call of the Wild by Jack London and Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne) "re-written" by Geronimo Stilton to take place in the mouse world.

This is a lot of lead-up, but believe me when I say there's a lot of books to the Stilton name, both taking place in the mouse realm and spinoffs that take place in Fantasy Kingdom or elsewhere. This is one of these spinoffs, and the first book in the Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom series. These peaked my interest when they first came out as a teen, but I never ended up reading them because I was over reading the Stilton books at that point in my childhood. But now that I can read them with my library card, why not have a look? Spoilers ahead.