No one quite brings the sexytimes like Meg Cabot. Especially when she takes on the world of vampires in Insatiable. Confession: I still like vampire books. Even though it seems the market is saturated with them, I’ve yet to grow bored or tired of them. Especially when the writing and the plot is as compelling […]
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
May 18, 2011
I wish I lived in the worlds contained in Sarah Addison Allen’s pages, where the ordinary is peppered by magic, where setting is almost as prominent as the characters. The Peach Keeper is set in Walls of Water, North Carolina, a town which once made it’s money off timber, but now has a thriving forest […]
Review of Push by Sapphire
March 20, 2010
Push by Sapphire is the story of an impoverished, traumatized, illiterate seventeen year old African-American girl named Precious Jones who overcomes so many obstacles in trying to turn her horrid life around. I mean seriously in Push by Sapphire it’s one bad thing after another, with maybe a handful of good things that happen. To […]
Review of Fireworks Over Toccoa by Jeffery Stepakoff
March 10, 2010
I don’t often read contemporary adult romance. Not necessarily because I don’t enjoy it, but because I tend to enjoy young adult romance more. I see a book with Nicholas Sparks’ named emblazoned on the top though, and feel sort of turned off, he’s just not the right author for me. I cannot get into […]
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay | Book Review
August 1, 2009
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay is a historical fiction novel that follows the interweaving stories of Sarah Starzynski and Julia Jaramond. Sarah is a young Jewish girl who was taken from her Parisan home during the Vel d’Hiv round up. Julia Jaramond is an American journalist living in Paris who comes across Sarah’s story sixty years later. I felt […]