I have wanted to read The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi from the minute I heard about it. In fact, it made my list of Top Ten 2016 Debuts That I Am HYPED About. After reading The Star-Touched Queen, I can totally vouch that it was 100 percent worthy of being on my hype list. I read this […]
The Square Root Of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood | Book Review
May 27, 2016
The Square Root Of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood was an unexpectedly excellent read — perfect for kicking off the warm weather. I’ll admit, there were some marketing comparisons for this book that I felt were kind of misleading. HOWEVER, I just really gelled with this debut and all of the SCIENCE and the kind […]
Paper Girls vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan | Book Review
April 27, 2016
Why Did I Read Paper Girls vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan? Sometimes I see really great looking books – especially comic books – available on Netgalley and ratio be damned, I have to download them. I have literally zero resistance built up to graphic novels. I had seen Paper Girls buzzing around twitter and instagram, […]
The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson | Audiobook Review
November 16, 2015
Why Did I Listen To This Book? I initially listened to The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson because it was assigned for a secret project. Unfortunately, I failed miserably at the secret project and ended up not listening to all of the books in time due to some personal things going on. The reason […]
The Raven’s Child by Thomas E. Sniegoski Illustrated by Tom Brown | Graphic Novel Review
November 4, 2015
Why Did I Read This Graphic Novel? I initially became interested in The Raven’s Child by Thomas E. Sniegoski illustrated by Tom Brown because of the way that it was pitched to me. It was described as being a sort of Buffy The Vampire slayer meets dystopian end of the world with aliens. That actually is […]
Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre edited by Paula Guran | Anthology Review
October 1, 2015
I’ll admit — I was really looking forward to Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre edited by Paula Guran. However, I ended up feeling like this was an uneven anthology with few stories that blew my mind. Thirteen by Stephen Graham Jones Well, the first story in Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre is super weird. It’s […]