Sandcastle and Other Stories by Justin Bog {A Review} I don’t take the chance to read nearly as many short story collections as I should. For some reason, the longer form stories seem to dominate my attention and something about reading short stories reminds me of taking lit classes in college and I feel like I’m … Continue reading
Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear by Max Lucado A Review About Fearless: Seeking to calm a world increasingly plagued by fear and anxiety, Max Lucado tackles the subject of fear with this inspirational title, identifying common fears of the day, and offering spiritual advice for overcoming our fears. The Review: As someone who has suffered … Continue reading
This has to be one of the most deeply disturbing books I’ve ever read. Disturbing, but aching and haunting and enchanting and fu#%ed up and really a masterpiece of fiction. Continue reading
Monarch by Michelle Davidson Argyle Review {+ Giveaway} Today we get to get all undercover and talk about this brand new debut thriller from a girl who totally gets what’s inside my head. Which is scary, considering she knows how to kill in like seven different ways. About Monarch: Nick’s life as a CIA spy … Continue reading
The Mountains Bow Down by Sibella Giorello Review & Blog Tour {+ Cruise Giveaway} Today we are pleased to be a part of the Blog Tour for Sibella Giorello’s latest Raleigh Harmon mystery, The Mountains Bow Down. We’ve got a review of course, but we’ve also got some other tour goodies and details on Sibella’s … Continue reading
Review: Letters from Home by Kristina McMorris Chicago, 1944. Liz Stephens has little interest in attending a USO club dance with her friends Betty and Julia. She doesn’t need a flirtation with a lonely serviceman when she’s set to marry her childhood sweetheart. Yet something happens the moment Liz glimpses Morgan McClain. They share only … Continue reading
Review: Miss Scarlet’s School of Patternless Sewing by Kathy Cano-Murillo To raise money for her move to New York, Scarlet Santana opens an after-hours sewing school in a local record shop. As classmates become friends, and Scarlet moves from teacher to pupil, everyone will learn that there is no single pattern for a good life. … Continue reading
Review: The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa “My Name Is Meghan Chase. In less than twenty-four hours, I’ll be seventeen. Deja vu, right? Shocking how quickly time can pass you by like you’re standing still. I can’t believe it’s been a year since that day. The day I went into Faery. The day that changed … Continue reading
Review: The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card “Danny North grew up surrounded by fairies, ghosts, talking animals, living stones, walking trees, and gods who called up wind and brought down rain, made fire from air and drew iron out of the depths of the earth as easily as ordinary people might draw up water … Continue reading
Review: Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton “I held both of my arms out and willed weapons into my open palms. The twin Khopesh swords appeared out of nothing in a flash of shimmering light. The curving silver blades glinted brightly. I glanced over at Will. I could now see intricate black tattoos twisting out from … Continue reading
Review: 13, rue Thérèse by Elena Mauli Shapiro “She will give him the office with the tall useless empty file cabinet in the corner. He will probably not think to open all the drawers and look in them his first day on the premises. But he will, eventually, discover a box tucked all the way … Continue reading
Review: DELIRIUM by Lauren Oliver “Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that once love – the deliria – blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that all citizens receive … Continue reading
“Such is my story, – grievous to hear, if words can grieve; but for us, who beheld, the greatest of sorrows that these eyes have seen” – Paedagogus Confession I have always been a bit of a Greek classics geek. Meaning, I sorta love the stuff. The ever-meddling gods, the revenge, the pathos, the supernatural, … Continue reading
Review: Managing Death by Trent Jamieson “It’s not easy being Death. For starters, people keep dying. And then, they keep getting up again. Steven de Selby got promoted. This makes the increasing number of stirrers (and the disturbing rumors of a zombie god rising sometime soon) his problem. That time management seminar he keeps meaning … Continue reading
My Rating: I really, really wanted to like this book… I haven’t read Sara Shepard’s Pretty Little Liars series, but the television spin-off became one of my guilty summer obsessions. Come on. It’s fun to escape to a world filled with beautiful, haunted, wealthy teens. Especially teens who were full of delicious, dangerous secrets. The … Continue reading
Uglies Uglies tells the story of Tally Youngblood, a 15-year-old girl living in a future dystopian society where all she can do is wait for her 16th birthday when she will finally be able to have the operation that makes her (and everyone else) pretty. And by pretty I mean perfect. We aren’t talking about … Continue reading
Title: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ( with Illustrations by Dave McKean) Genre: Children’s Books, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Reading Level: Ages 9-12 ISBN: 978-0060530921 Published: HarperCollins; 1st ed edition (September 30, 2008) Obtained: Copy borrowed from a friend (but this one’s on my wishlist). I have to admit, in general I’m a … Continue reading
My rating: 5 of 5 stars (I’ve been ruminating for over a week now on how to do this book justice in a review. It’s intimidating trying to say something fresh and new about a National Bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner by an author, Cormac McCarthy who is almost universally loved and respected. And so … Continue reading
