I really wanted to like No One Needs To Know by Amanda Grace but unfortunately right from the beginning I had this unmistakable feeling that it was not going to match up to the potential which I had seen in the blurb. I just wasn’t pulled into the story the way I thought I would […]
Allison: Open Road Summer | Emery Lord | Book Review
July 31, 2014
Open Road Summer by Emery Lord is a book that has been on my radar for quite some time now. Ever since its initial release, it was a book that so many other bloggers were buzzing about in the best ways, and I kept thinking that it sounded like a book that might just be […]
Summer Of The Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall | Book Review
July 30, 2014
After The Summer Of The Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall passed my threshold, I looked at it with optimism, but not much motivation. Friends, this book sat on my Kindle and then in my house for YEARS because I can sometimes be a terrible blogger. I decided to make McCall’s contemporary-fantasy retelling a summer priority in order to kill two birds with one stone — read an old book from my TBR pile and thus be able to pass it on and also to remove a Netgalley book from my queue. Also, because The Odyssey is mad awesome.
Shadows by Robin McKinley | Book Review
July 25, 2014
The crux of the matter is that I really, really love Robin McKinley’s books, but unfortunately Shadows turned out to be kind of a really big disappointment. I mean, it’s not like I ever expect to dislike her books. No, instead, I go in expecting a book that is not exactly going to be a fast […]
Allison: Just Like The Movies | Kelly Fiore | Book Review
July 24, 2014
Have you ever imagined what it would be like if real life was like the movies? Or at least like those romantic comedies or romantic dramas where the girl gets the boy of her dreams every time? I would be lying if I said that I had never imagined what would happen if my life […]