I have to say, it’s kind of cool hanging onto review copies that I just have not been able to get to, because when I finally pick them up to read them, my mind is cleared of all hype and you know, the copy still gets a review and if we’re lucky that convinces someone […]
Asylum | Madeleine Roux | Book Review
July 26, 2013
Remember back when Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children was THE cool book? Yeah, dude, I totally remember and LOVED that book. I liked the concept of mixed media books, or at least I think that is what the books are called – when photographs are mixed in with the story. Asylum by Madeleine Roux seemed […]
Allison: Dark Companion | Marta Acosta | Book Review
July 17, 2013
Dark Companion by Marta Acosta had so much potential to be a great modern day YA Gothic novel but unfortunately it fell very flat for me. Honestly, I spent half of my time reading it trying to decode it. Why? Because I just simply couldn’t understand it, and once I was finally able to some-what […]
Dance Of The Red Death | Bethany Griffin | Book Review
July 17, 2013
It feels like I have been waiting forever to read Dance Of The Red Death, the conclusion to Bethany Griffin’s Masque of the Red Death. Y’all, I loved the first book in this duology. It contained things that I am totally gung ho about – plagues, romance, solid writing, Edgar Allan Poe. However, it also ended on […]
Allison: The Resurrectionist | E.B. Hudspeth | Book Review
May 21, 2013
To say that The Resurrectionist: The Lost Works of Dr. Spencer Black by E.B. Hudspeth is out of my normal comfort zone would honestly be a little bit of an understatement. Yet when I received the email from Eric at Quirk Books about reviewing it I couldn’t help but be drawn in. There was something […]
Allison: The Hallowed Ones | Laura Bickle | Book Review
April 3, 2013
Strange things are happening in the outside world. It all happens one day when Katie and her friend Elijah are spending time together thinking about their upcoming Rumspringa when a helicopter crashes into the field right in front of them. They rush to the scene to determine if there are any survivors but before Katie […]