I read The Paper Magician basically in two days. I got the Kindle version, probably at some kind of a discount because that’s the only time I buy ebooks. I was drawn to the artful cover of the book, with the woman in her Mary Poppins-style dress and umbrella. Knowing nothing about the book… Read More The Paper Magician – Book Review
Author: Joe Hart Title: The Final Trade Series: The Dominion Trilogy #2 Genre: Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic Published: September 13th 2016 by Thomas & Mercer Rating: Four Stars At the end of The Last Girl, Zoe and her friends helped her attack the ARC and rescue some of the girls who remained there… but not all of them.… Read More The Final Trade – Book Review
The Broken Teaglass, by Emily Arsenault My rating: 4 of 5 stars Any author who can stimulate a reader’s interest in reading about her main characters reading the dictionary is pretty darned good, and that’s exactly what Emily Arsenault has accomplished in her debut novel, The Broken Teaglass.
Title: The Help Author: Kathryn Stockett Publisher: Penguin Books Set in the 60’s when civil unrest was at its height, Martin Luther King was making his famous speech, and black Americans began to make a stand, even at great personal risk. Jackson, Mississippi is a seat of KKK power, and working… Read More The Help – Book Review
Toward A Secret Sky by Heather Maclean Published April 4th 2017 368 Pages Goodreads Summary: Shortly after 17-year-old Maren Hamilton is orphaned and sent to live with grandparents she’s never met in Scotland, she receives an encrypted journal from her dead mother that makes her and everyone around her a target. It confirms that her… Read More Toward A Secret Sky – Book Review
Title: Thirteen Reasons Why Author: Jay Asher My rating: 4/5 Synopsis: Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that… Read More Thirteen Reasons Why – Book Review
Genre: Romance, Fantasy Publisher: Shaggy Dog Productions, LLC Publication Date: May 13, 2016 Format: ePub Pages: 204 pages 4.50 Stars About the book Celtic mythology, suspense, and a modern day romance! Xander spent most of his life exploring his mother’s disappearance. When new clues surface that suggest she’s alive and waiting for him to find her, he… Read More Xander’s Folly – Book Review
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a lighthearted, funny, and highly enjoyable love story for all the nerds out there. Professor Don Tillman is a geneticist with Asperger’s Syndrome who embarks on a project to find a “suitable mate” (the “Wife Project”). But instead, he gets sidetracked by a woman named Rosie and… Read More The Rosie Project – Book Review
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor Rating: 5/5 stars Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult About this Book: The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost… Read More Strange the Dreamer – Book Review
Author Rhett C. Bruno weaves a sci-fi detective story set a few hundred years in the future, in which long-time bounty hunter Malcolm Graves is given the task of finding a bomber who decided to strike on one of Earth’s most celebrated holidays. However, Malcolm gets an unexpected surprise when Pervenio Corp., the company he… Read More Titanborn – Book Review
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