This is my first installment in the Re-read Challenge since signing up or it in January, and here’s what I’ve learned through this challenge so far: I am great at rereading books and terrible at writing about them. I originally committed to 12 books, but I think I’m going to scale back to 6, which puts… Read More Girlfriend in a Coma – Book Review
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Published: 02/09/2016 Summary: Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven,… Read More Glass Sword – Book Review
Title: My Dead World Author: Jacqueline Druga Published: June, 2016 Rating: 3/5 ______________________________________________ BLURB Since childhood, Nila Carter is made to spend every weekend at the family cabin. In her teenage years she believes it to be a prison, as an adult it becomes her sanctuary and means to survive.
Cate would do just about anything to be made a member of the Assassin’s Guild at her boarding school. Every year the Assassin’s Guild plays a game called Killer. Throughout the year, one killer will “kill” other members of the Guild. Whoever can guess who the killer is before getting killed themselves wins. The… Read More The Assassin Game – Book Review
Like his other five books in the Tudor series, C.J. Sanson’s Lamentation is an enthralling, if not long, work of historical fiction. You have Queen Katherine Parr, the king, the court, Matthew Shardlake attorney, and a host of others. The book Lamentation of a Sinner, written by the queen is stolen one night from… Read More Lamentation – Book Review
The book: The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman Published by Black Swan in 2013 Pages: 434 My copy: Lent to me by my sister The blurb: A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper’s island. It holds a dead man – and a crying baby. The only two islanders, Tom… Read More The Light Between Oceans – Book Review
Name: Seven Ways We Lie Author: Riley Redgate Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary Rating: 4.25 stars Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate is a young adult contemporary set in a high school following the lives of seven students in their junior years, each of them embodying one of the seven deadly sins as major… Read More Seven Ways We Lie – Book Review
A Spark Ignites (The Spark Superhero Series #1) by Michael Lachman (Amazon, Goodreads) After some big meals down the gullet, we pull up a light novella of a meal with A Spark Ignites. A recipe spun up in a new contemporary superhero setting, it offers up a quick bite of superhero delight to enjoy. Considering my… Read More A Spark Ignites – Book Review
A Night Divided If there is such a genre as young adult – historical – thriller, this book is it.
…all my strongest memories of Sophie were of her leaving… Sophie Stark, our eponymous antihero, is a visionary filmmaker whose searing genius and determination leads her to create movies of unparalleled rawness “as if an alien had come down and filmed humans and shown us what we were like so much more honestly than… Read More The Life and Death of Sophie Stark – Book Review
