Prom, to me, conjures up images of pretty dresses, silly dance moves and awkward pictures. Perry, main character of Joe Schreiber’s Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick totally experiences a prom night different from what I remember. You see, Perry and his family are currently hosting a foreign exchange student named Gobi who is Lithuanian and […]
Enchanted Alethea Kontis Book Review
May 21, 2012
Are you looking for a lighthearted fairy tale retelling? Maybe something in the vein of the frog prince? Debut author Alethea Kontis’s Enchanted certainly fits the bill and is a charming, well written story about family, magic, and true love. Sunday Woodcutter is the seventh daughter of a seventh son and seventh daughter, meaning the circumstances […]
First Comes Love Katie Kacvinsky Book Review
April 28, 2012
We all remember our first love and how it unfolded. Katie Kacvinsky captures all of the firsts with her sophomore novel First Comes Love. Set in Arizona, First Comes Love moves through the progression of Dylan, a girl, and Gray’s relationship from the first time they meet at community college to their first fight and beyond. First […]
Bloody Jack L.A. Meyer Audiobook Review
April 11, 2012
Adventure on the high seas is totally a plot line I am attracted to. AND GIRLS DRESSING UP AS BOYS SO THEY CAN BE UNRESTRICTED BY GENDER? Indeed. Holla atcha girl! Bloody Jack: Being An Account Of The Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy by L.A. Meyer narrated by Katherine Kellgren is mostly a […]
Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers Book Review
March 29, 2012
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named April. She dreamed about castles and royalty. Then she went away to college where she learned that medieval people were actually kind of gross, but totally bad as. Instead of dreaming in bed, she’d day dream at her desk of relics and miracles and saints. […]
The Wicked And The Just J. Anderson Coats Book Review
March 23, 2012
If you are crazy for the past, The Wicked And The Just by J. Anderson Coats will set your history senses tingling. Taking place in medieval Wales, The Wicked And The Just is a magnificent read about two girls – one a stranger in a strange land, the other is a refugee in her own country after […]