I will just come right out and say that Of Poseidon by Anna Banks did not work for me. I unfortunately had a rough time bringing myself to care about the book, which sucks because I want to get into this whole mermaid trend. Of Poseidon is about Emma and opens up with Emma and her best […]
Shadow And Bone Leigh Bardugo Book Review
June 19, 2012
Shadow And Bone by Leigh Bardugo is an ace read. I ate Bardugo’s debut up — from the mysterious prologue that shows two refugee orphans being tested for magic to this huge climax of winning and AWESOME towards the end. Y’all high fantasy is totally my thing — as a reader it is ALWAYS my […]
Monument 14 Emmy Laybourne Book Review
June 18, 2012
Who among us has not had the fantasy of being trapped in a superstore, able to use whatever product and item you want? Emmy Laybourne, debut author, explores this exact scenario in Monument 14 with much less pleasant circumstances than my fantasy.  Y’all this book TOTALLY delivered what I wanted from it — an exciting story that took […]
Cross My Heart Sasha Gould Book Review
June 15, 2012
I’d like to do something totally 90s and ‘raise the roof’ over the fact that YA historical fiction has finally taken on RENAISSANCE VENICE. Y’all, I have this very romanticized, ideal notion of Venice – think sexy gondolas and starlit nights and ART and buildings. Yo, Cross My Heart by Sasha Gould is a debut […]
The Last Princess Galaxy Craze Book Review
June 12, 2012
Friends, my honest opinion of The Last Princess by Galaxy Craze is that it was a god awful book. On the upside, it is a super quick read — only taking a few hours to get through. However, this dystopian debut did not work for me despite how quickly I zoomed through it. England has been […]
Dust Girl Sarah Zettel Book Review
June 11, 2012
Straight up, it took me a long time to warm up to Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel. I felt as though I had been dropped into it with no idea of what was going on. I didn’t immediately feel grounded in the story. Frankly, though, once I had a better sense of place and world, […]