Thorn Jack by Katherine Harbour paints an evocative picture of Upstate New York. It is a competent retelling of the Scottish ballad ‘Tam Lin’, modernized for our time. The official summary compares Harbour’s book to Cassandra Clare, Erin Morgenstern and Melissa Marr, personally I think that the most accurate comparison is to Marr. Thorn Jack is a […]
Killing Floor by Lee Child | Audiobook Review
July 13, 2014
Why Did I Listen To This Book? I somehow stumbled upon Killing Floor by Lee Child for free on Audible one day and thus, downloaded the audiobook because free legal things are awesome. I randomly began listening to it because it was just so different from all the other books I’ve been balancing and you know, […]
All Lined Up by Cora Carmack | Book Review
July 3, 2014
IT HAS HAPPENED, I’ve finally read my first Cora Carmack book which is kind of monumentous. I feel like all of my friends really enjoy her books — even the ones who aren’t very keen on the new adult genre. What took me so long, eh? All Lined Up was pretty much all that I hoped […]
Landline by Rainbow Rowell | Book Review
July 1, 2014
There is something that Rainbow Rowell just seems to innately get about relationships. After reading Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, and now Landline, I am convinced that Rowell is the master of writing about intimacy and its myriad forms. I’ve seen Rowell’s latest, Landline, described as being akin to a romantic comedy but personally, the book […]