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Thursday, August 8, 2019
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale Reader Review by Gwendolyn Books
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale
Reader Review by Gwendolyn Books
A wonderful fantasy written about a protagonist unicorn named Blue.
A journey, a prophecy , a journey and magical beast .All the things that make up a great storyline. Creative world building keeps you engaged.
A fantastic fantasy. I enjoyed this exciting book
Thanks NetGalley for this complimentary copy for an honest review.
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A wonderful fantasy written about a protagonist unicorn named Blue.
A journey, a prophecy , a journey and magical beast .All the things that make up a great storyline. Creative world building keeps you engaged.
A fantastic fantasy. I enjoyed this exciting book
Thanks NetGalley for this complimentary copy for an honest review.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Unicorny Stuff From Zazzle Journey To Osm Collection - Journey To Osm Kids Logo Tee
Unicorny Stuff
From the "Journey To Osm" Collection
on Zazzle
Journey To Osm T-Shirt Kids - Girls
Girls T-Shirt with Journey To Osm Logo. Artwork by Dasguptarts. Merchandise for Sybrina Durant's The Blue Unicorn's Journey To Osm Books.
If you love unicorn stories with lots of pictures of unicorns, this is the book for you. It is available in soft and hard back print, .mobi and .epub ebook formats and as an audio book at all online book stores.
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Monday, August 5, 2019
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale Reader Review by Marta
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale
Reader Review by Marta
Journey to Osm is a fantasy
where the protagonist is a unicorn – a unicorn! How exciting! And how
absolutely unique! The story follows Blue, the so-called “promised prophecy” that will save the
unicorn tribe. Unfortunately, things do not go as planned for Blue, and he
faces quite a lot of struggles as he grows up. Sybrina Durant does an
impressive job at world-building and creates a story that is unique yet reflective of
real-life coming-of-age struggles. The only reason this received a 3/5 is
because it had a rather slow development. This would be a great story for
children.
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Journey to Osm is a fantasy
where the protagonist is a unicorn – a unicorn! How exciting! And how
absolutely unique! The story follows Blue, the so-called “promised prophecy” that will save the
unicorn tribe. Unfortunately, things do not go as planned for Blue, and he
faces quite a lot of struggles as he grows up. Sybrina Durant does an
impressive job at world-building and creates a story that is unique yet reflective of
real-life coming-of-age struggles. The only reason this received a 3/5 is
because it had a rather slow development. This would be a great story for
children.
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Saturday, August 3, 2019
SFFWA - Summer Book Giveaway
SFFWA
Science Fiction Fantasy and Women Authors
Summer Book Giveaway
The fantastic science fiction and fantasy authors of #SFFWA (All Women, All Storytellers, All Authors) are giving away books for your reading pleasure. Browse 120 books now at
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Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store - Unicorn Dress
Unicorn Dress
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Thursday, August 1, 2019
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale Reader Review by Beth C
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale
Reader Review by Beth C
Let me begin by thanking Netgalley and Sybrina Durant for sending me the Arc of this captivating story. I literally read this book in a night! The story begins in tye land of MarBryn with the birth of Blue our main character, a frail and unique unicorn. His birth was foretold by the Orcle, that Blue would rid the Unicorns of the evil Magh that hunts them. But unlike the rest of the Unicorns with horns made of different types of metal which gave them all individual powers, Blue’s was merely made of hide,not metal so possessed no magical powers. Fast forward twenty years Blue is a loner, belittled by most of the tribe. His horn didn’t possess even a drop of magic no matter how hard he tried nothing would happen, this is when the plot starts to thicken. Sybrina’s writting skills is nothing short of whimsical. I really enjoyed Sybrina’s word building throughout the story, it painted a picture in your mind how beautiful Marbryn used to be before the wars. Sybrina’s character’s were well rounded, all of them leaving a lasting impression. The story itself was a bit of a slow burn to begin with but I think it had to be to build up the plot, emotions were portrayed perfectly throughout. Personally reading this book I think it has similarities to The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagal but it also has a unique flare. I think anyone that’s a fan of fantasy and adventure would enjoy this. I give this book a 4. 5 star rating. I’d happily read other books by Sybrina Durant.
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Let me begin by thanking Netgalley and Sybrina Durant for sending me the Arc of this captivating story. I literally read this book in a night! The story begins in tye land of MarBryn with the birth of Blue our main character, a frail and unique unicorn. His birth was foretold by the Orcle, that Blue would rid the Unicorns of the evil Magh that hunts them. But unlike the rest of the Unicorns with horns made of different types of metal which gave them all individual powers, Blue’s was merely made of hide,not metal so possessed no magical powers. Fast forward twenty years Blue is a loner, belittled by most of the tribe. His horn didn’t possess even a drop of magic no matter how hard he tried nothing would happen, this is when the plot starts to thicken. Sybrina’s writting skills is nothing short of whimsical. I really enjoyed Sybrina’s word building throughout the story, it painted a picture in your mind how beautiful Marbryn used to be before the wars. Sybrina’s character’s were well rounded, all of them leaving a lasting impression. The story itself was a bit of a slow burn to begin with but I think it had to be to build up the plot, emotions were portrayed perfectly throughout. Personally reading this book I think it has similarities to The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagal but it also has a unique flare. I think anyone that’s a fan of fantasy and adventure would enjoy this. I give this book a 4. 5 star rating. I’d happily read other books by Sybrina Durant.
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Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Unicorny Stuff From Zazzle Journey To Osm Collection - Unicorns From Unimaise Poster
Unicorny Stuff
From the "Journey To Osm" Collection
on Zazzle
Unicorns From Unimaise Poster
Poster from the Unicorn's From Unimaise Book Cover. Children's picture book available at all online book stores.
If you love unicorn stories with lots of pictures of unicorns, this is the book for you. It is available in soft and hard back print, .mobi and .epub ebook formats and as an audio book at all online book stores.
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Unicorn Book Feature - Hope by Deby Adair
Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick
Unicorns! How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups. I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you in one convenient spot on my blog. Today's Unicorn Book Feature is
Hope
By Deby Adair
Heart's flame sing loud and long, bring me home with your brave song.
When a cryptic messenger reveals veiled words of prophecy, things change in Wish, forever. It is now that the High Tower Keepers are challenged with their most perilous task. Can the unicorns and the enigma of the violet flame - the Ambit of Light - save the day?
When a cryptic messenger reveals veiled words of prophecy, things change in Wish, forever. It is now that the High Tower Keepers are challenged with their most perilous task. Can the unicorns and the enigma of the violet flame - the Ambit of Light - save the day?
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Sunday, July 28, 2019
Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store - Unicorn Tee Shirt
Unicorn Tee Shirt
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Saturday, July 27, 2019
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale Reader Review by Victoria M.
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale
Reader Review by Victoria Mariposa
Journey to Osm: The Blue Unicorn's Tale by Sybrina Durant is a magical fantasy story that is well written. The plot of the story begins when Miral gives birth to a unicorn with neither metal nor magic. Not only that, the baby unicorn is small and weak. This is after Alumna, the oracle, had received a vision that the baby unicorn would grow to be strong. What then, given his current stature, was he going to do if confronted with the worst Magh army?
I loved how the author built her characters and scenes gradually, pulling me in with each page. Also, the story is quite thrilling. It kept me at the edge of my seat the whole time. I can definitely see this being turned into a movie. That you Sybrina Durant for such a great read!
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Journey to Osm: The Blue Unicorn's Tale by Sybrina Durant is a magical fantasy story that is well written. The plot of the story begins when Miral gives birth to a unicorn with neither metal nor magic. Not only that, the baby unicorn is small and weak. This is after Alumna, the oracle, had received a vision that the baby unicorn would grow to be strong. What then, given his current stature, was he going to do if confronted with the worst Magh army?
I loved how the author built her characters and scenes gradually, pulling me in with each page. Also, the story is quite thrilling. It kept me at the edge of my seat the whole time. I can definitely see this being turned into a movie. That you Sybrina Durant for such a great read!
I loved how the author built her characters and scenes gradually, pulling me in with each page. Also, the story is quite thrilling. It kept me at the edge of my seat the whole time. I can definitely see this being turned into a movie. That you Sybrina Durant for such a great read!
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Friday, July 26, 2019
Unicorny Stuff From Zazzle Journey To Osm Collection - Tinam Charm
Unicorny Stuff
From the "Journey To Osm" Collection
on Zazzle
Tinam with Herd Info - Round Silver Plated Charm
Tinam with Herd Info - Round Silver Plated Charm. Wear on your belt loops or shoes. Dress up your backpack or purse. Collect charms for all of the unicorns in the Metal Horned Unicorn Tribe from The Blue Unicorn's Journey To Osm Illustrated book for teens and older readers.
If you love unicorn stories with lots of pictures of unicorns, this is the book for you. It is available in soft and hard back print, .mobi and .epub ebook formats and as an audio book at all online book stores.
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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Unicorn Book Feature - A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle
Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick
Unicorns! How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups. I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you in one convenient spot on my blog. Today's Unicorn Book Feature is
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
By Madeleine L'Engle
In A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle, a companion to the Newbery Award winner A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, the Murry and O'Keefe Families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war.
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest.
Charles Wallace's sister, Meg--grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything"--goes with him in spirit. Charles Wallace must face the ultimate test of his faith and his will as he is sent within four people from another time, there to search for a way to avert the tragedy threatening them all.
Books by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
An Acceptable Time
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope Larson: A graphic novel adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic.
Intergalactic P.S. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle; illustrated by Hope Larson: Visit the world of A Wrinkle in Time in this standalone story!
The Austin Family Chronicles
Meet the Austins (Volume 1)
The Moon by Night (Volume 2)
The Young Unicorns (Volume 3)
A Ring of Endless Light (Volume 4) A Newbery Honor book!
Troubling a Star (Volume 5)
The Polly O'Keefe books
The Arm of the Starfish
Dragons in the Waters
A House Like a Lotus
And Both Were Young
Camilla
The Joys of Love
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest.
Charles Wallace's sister, Meg--grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by "kything"--goes with him in spirit. Charles Wallace must face the ultimate test of his faith and his will as he is sent within four people from another time, there to search for a way to avert the tragedy threatening them all.
Books by Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters
An Acceptable Time
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L'Engle; adapted & illustrated by Hope Larson: A graphic novel adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic.
Intergalactic P.S. 3 by Madeleine L'Engle; illustrated by Hope Larson: Visit the world of A Wrinkle in Time in this standalone story!
The Austin Family Chronicles
Meet the Austins (Volume 1)
The Moon by Night (Volume 2)
The Young Unicorns (Volume 3)
A Ring of Endless Light (Volume 4) A Newbery Honor book!
Troubling a Star (Volume 5)
The Polly O'Keefe books
The Arm of the Starfish
Dragons in the Waters
A House Like a Lotus
And Both Were Young
Camilla
The Joys of Love
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Sybrina's Blue Unicorn Book Store - Unicorn Wig
Unicorn Wig
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Monday, July 22, 2019
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale Reader Review by Seraphia
Journey To Osm - The Blue Unicorn's Tale
Reader Review by Seraphia
Journey to Osm is a beautifully written tale of a herd of unicorns waiting on their prophesied savior to be born. He will be the one with the horn and the magic to save them all from the evil who wishes to destroy them all and enslave the world. The author builds such a beautiful world in this story. We meet unicorns, pendragons, two-leggeds (humans) and other strange creatures. This story tells the reader about young Blue who is made to not feel as if he belongs simply because his horn is not metal when he is born. "No metal. No magic." You will feel the sadness that he feels as he seeks to hide from the herd and learn the extent of loss that they have all suffered at the hands of an evil man who seeks more and more power.
The story flows so well and kept me engaged the entire time. I kept turning page after page to learn what was going to happen next. There are moments of where I am annoyed or disappointed with certain characters, but for me, it helps make them even more "real" or at least relatable as believable characters. I love the romance that the author throws into the story. You see it coming when you learn of Blue's stable-mate and how they came to be so close. It's heartbreaking but beautiful at the same time.
There is nothing that I don't like about this story. The author never becomes too focused on one particular part. The story flows well and keeps the reader engaged from beginning to end. I love the twists and surprises that the author throws into the story. It's a wonderful story to read.
I am rating this book 5 out of 5 stars. If you are a fantasy lover this is a book to pick up. If you love stories about unicorns then this is a book to grab. I'm sure that you will enjoy.
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Journey to Osm is a beautifully written tale of a herd of unicorns waiting on their prophesied savior to be born. He will be the one with the horn and the magic to save them all from the evil who wishes to destroy them all and enslave the world. The author builds such a beautiful world in this story. We meet unicorns, pendragons, two-leggeds (humans) and other strange creatures. This story tells the reader about young Blue who is made to not feel as if he belongs simply because his horn is not metal when he is born. "No metal. No magic." You will feel the sadness that he feels as he seeks to hide from the herd and learn the extent of loss that they have all suffered at the hands of an evil man who seeks more and more power.
The story flows so well and kept me engaged the entire time. I kept turning page after page to learn what was going to happen next. There are moments of where I am annoyed or disappointed with certain characters, but for me, it helps make them even more "real" or at least relatable as believable characters. I love the romance that the author throws into the story. You see it coming when you learn of Blue's stable-mate and how they came to be so close. It's heartbreaking but beautiful at the same time.
There is nothing that I don't like about this story. The author never becomes too focused on one particular part. The story flows well and keeps the reader engaged from beginning to end. I love the twists and surprises that the author throws into the story. It's a wonderful story to read.
I am rating this book 5 out of 5 stars. If you are a fantasy lover this is a book to pick up. If you love stories about unicorns then this is a book to grab. I'm sure that you will enjoy.
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
Unicorny Stuff From Zazzle Journey To Osm Collection - Dr Zinko BW Profile Tee
Unicorny Stuff
From the "Journey To Osm" Collection
on Zazzle
Dr. Zinko - Black and White Profile T-Shirt
This T-Shirt has a black and white profile image of Dr. Zinko the Zink-Horned unicorn from The Blue Unicorn's Journey To Osm Illustrated Book For Teens.
If you love unicorn stories with lots of pictures of unicorns, this is the book for you. It is available in soft and hard back print, .mobi and .epub ebook formats and as an audio book at all online book stores.
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Saturday, July 20, 2019
Unicorn Book Feature - Lore of the Unicorn by Odell Shepard
Sybrina's Unicorn Book Pick
Unicorns! How we love them. . .Luckily for all of us unicorn lovers there are hundreds of unicorn books available for all age groups. I have gathered information about as many as I can find and have placed them here for you in one convenient spot on my blog. Today's Unicorn Book Feature is
Lore of the Unicorn
By Odell Shepard
ON the table before me there lies a long straight wand of ivory. Cut to the length of a walking-stick, it is somewhat more than two inches in diameter at the top and it tapers evenly to a blunt point. Smooth-backed ridges, not more than a quarter of an inch in height, spiral round it counter-clockwise, making about two turns and a half between one end and the other. As a whole, it is a twisted spear. One can fancy that it has been taken in powerful hands and wrung, as one wrings a wet cloth. Thomas Fuller, having seen another such ivory wand as this, said excellently that to his dim eyes and at some distance it seemed "like a taper of wreathed waxe". This walking-stick has been fitted at the upper end with a gilded silver cap which bears the arms of a certain noble house and a motto in Welsh. Four inches below the cap a hole has been bored through the stick—one would say, at first, to receive the cord to which some gentleman of the grand old days attached the silken tassel that adorned his cane. I scarcely think, however, that this particular stick ever tapped its way along Birdcage Walk or through the gardens of Versailles, partly because there are no signs of wear on its point and partly because it weighs something like three pounds. More probably, the cord that went through this hole was used not to carry a tassel but to hang the stick against the wall in some great house of three or four centuries ago. And yet I do not doubt that some of the former owners of this wand carried it about with them, but when they did so they carried it neither for comfort nor display; rather, it was their companion on dark nights and in perilous places, and they held it near their hearts, handling it tenderly, as they would a treasure. For indeed it was exactly that. It preserved a man from the arrow that flieth by day and the pestilence that walketh in darkness, from the craft of the poisoner, from epilepsy, and from several less dignified ills of the flesh not to be named in so distinguished a connection. In short, it was an amulet, a talisman, a weapon, and a medicine-chest all in one. Small wonder that such a wand as this, in the days when such things were appreciated, sold for twenty times its weight in gold, and that one alone, as Thomas Dekker said, was "worth a city". Small wonder that perfect sticks like this were to be seen only in the treasure-chambers of popes and emperors and kings, or, when some opulent church like St. Mark’s of Venice did manage to acquire one, that it should be shown to the public only on gala days and beneath a pall of purple velvet. The stick before me, although of ivory, was not cut from an elephant’s tusk or even from the tusk of a mammoth or mastodon. It grew as it is, and according to the most learned. opinion of many generations it grew single on the brow of a beast so glorious, so virtuous, so beautiful, that heaven vouchsafed the earth, as in the case of the phoenix, only one specimen at a time. For this is the horn of the unicorn.
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