This is a review for the COYER Challenge! Rating: 4/5 Stars Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Publication date: January 10th, 2017 I received a copy of this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a fireblood who must hide her powers of heat and flame from the cruel frostblood… Read More The You I’ve Never Known – Book Review
Title: Alex & Eliza Author: Melissa de la Cruz Publication Date: April 11, 2017 Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance, Young Adults Format: ARC copy provided by the publisher 1777. Albany, New York. As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball.
TITLE: Amelia and the Secret of Stoney Manor AUTHOR: Michelle Jetton GENRE: YA Fantasy & Romance PUBLISHING DATE: November 6, 2016 by Anchor Group Publishing Amelia is truly not your average girl and neither is her story. Abandoned by her mother at a young age and raised by an overly-protective grandmother, Matilda, Amelia is confined… Read More Amelia and the Secret of Stoney Manor – Book Review
Title: Priceless Treasures and Ghastly: A Slight Collection of Hallowe’en Tales and Miscellanea Author: Thomas Olivieri Published: October 25, 2016 42 Pages Blurb: THESE days, Hallowe’en is a night of ghosts, celebrated by people who can longer believe in them, a day of tricks, treats, and twilight. A night when — sanctioned by custom… Read More Priceless Treasures and Ghastly – Book Review
Last Breath – Robert Bryndza The Blurb He’s your perfect date. You’re his next victim. When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is,… Read More Last Breath – Book Review
The Unlikeable Demon Hunter by Deborah Wilde This book was great! I was hoping by the title of this book it would be incredible! It was! I loved Nava and the rest of the characters were great, relatable and funny!
I received this book for free from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. Good as Gone by Amy Gentry Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on July 26, 2016 Genres: Family Life, Mysteries, Suspense Pages: 288 Format: Kindle Source: Edelweiss Four Stars Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her… Read More Good As Gone – Book Review
Format: Paperback Pages: 299 pages Published: July 1942 Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Mystery, Fiction Synopsis: “The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village’s quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit… Read More The Moving Finger – Book Review
The book: The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley Published by John Murray in 2016 Pages: 368 My copy: Secondhand paperback The blurb: Two brothers. One mute, the other his lifelong protector. Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney, in desperate hope of a… Read More The Loney – Book Review
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. This novel is a debut and the lady who wrote it is a) younger than me, and b) under 30. So massive props to Hannah Kent. Secondly, this was a manuscript that publishers came to her for. Not vice versa. That’s pretty much unheard of for a debut novel.… Read More Burial Rites – Book Review
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