THIS IS AN ALLISON REVIEW <3 “Just your average boy-meets-girl, girl-kills-people story.” This is the tagline for Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake. Maybe it’s because I don’t really have much experience with ‘boy-meets-girl, girl-kills-people’ type of stories but honestly I didn’t find ANYTHING average about it. The prose is exquisitely beautiful and pulled me […]
The Turn Of The Screw Henry James Book Review
January 20, 2012
Yo, spoilers. Sometimes, I get ambitious and think, self, let’s prove intellectual superiority by reading A CLASSIC, because you know, classics are hard. But then my brain got pwned by The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James. Last year, I read a retelling of The Turn Of The Screw – Tighter by Adele Griffin […]
The Aviary by Kathleen O’Dell Book Review
October 31, 2011
The Aviary by Kathleen O’Dell. The Aviary is a quiet middle grade novel with a touch of Anne Of Green Gables crossed with The Secret Garden as an influence.
YA Spooktacular 2011: The Corn Stalker
October 28, 2011
YOU GUYS!! It’s Halloween, Halloween, Halloween LA LA LA! Which could only mean that it’s time for YA Spooktacular where YA authors and YA bloggers join their forces for evil and create tales of TERROR! I have the distinct pleasure of hosting FRIGHTFULLY GOOD author Jessica Spotswood (BORN WICKED out Feb 2012)
Guys Read: Thriller edited by Jon Scieszka Book Review
October 19, 2011
Guys Read: Thriller edited by Jon Scieszka, who also wrote the introduction, begins with a bang.
Desires Of The Dead by Kimberly Derting Book Review
September 22, 2011
While The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting ended on what seemed to be a final note, there is more to Violet’s story as we see in Desires Of The Dead, and in 2012, The Last Echo.