Why Did I Choose To Listen To This Book?: I had recently reviewed a book with cults and found myself disappointed by it. I then was talking to Christina at A Reader Of Fictions when she brought up A Darker Place by Laurie R. King and mentioned that the cults were satisfying and I would probably […]
Kindness For Weakness | Shawn Goodman | Book Review
May 22, 2013
You guys, I just recently gobbled up Kindness For Weakness by Shawn Goodman which really hit my intellectual sweet spots. I mean, I started this book the same day that I DNFed a contemporary book and basically read all of Kindness For Weakness in a single sitting – including about 88% of the book while I was […]
The Second Empress | Michelle Moran | Book Review
April 15, 2013
Michelle Moran has a gift for making history come alive. She makes people who lived over one hundred years ago seem as though they are living and breathing now. Her latest book The Second Empress: A Novel Of Napoleon’s Court takes on the period of time when Marie-Louise, a Hapsburg princess became the empress of France. […]
Liar And Spy | Rebecca Stead | Book Review
March 23, 2013
I love middle grade books, and I seriously say that on every single middle grade review that I write, but honestly it totally bears repeating. When I saw that Liar & Spy by acclaimed author Rebecca Stead was on that PW (I think) list of books to look for at BEA, I knew that I had to […]
Strands Of Bronze And Gold | Jane Nickerson | Book Review
March 18, 2013
I am almost always down for fairy tale retellings. Seriously — if a book has just a whiff of being a retelling, I will get my hands on it, most especially if the book is young adult. So it follows that I would be BEYOND excited for Strands of Bronze And Gold by Jane Nickerson, a […]
The Sweetest Dark | Shana Abe | Book Review
March 14, 2013
There are quite a few elements that I absolutely love to read about: dragons, historical fiction, boarding schools, and romance. The Sweetest Dark by romance writer Shana Abe contains these elements, yet it did not entirely deliver on it’s interesting premise. I felt that this young adult book was bogged down by very cheesy writing, thus […]