Retro Friday Reviews is a meme hosted by Angie of Angieville. Basically, you spotlight older titles. If Jessica Darling was a real life person, she would be three years older than me. If she had gone to my school, she would have been someone I looked up to, I am sure. Sloppy Firsts by Megan […]
Review: Where I Belong by Gwendolyn Heasley
February 8, 2011
I wish more YA books were set in small towns in the south. Although I did not grow up in the south, I did grow up in a small town. The varsity football game was a big deal. Our parents didn’t go on business trips or anything, so you had to party in a field. […]
Review: Bitter Melon by Cara Chow
February 7, 2011
With all the hullabaloo surrounding Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, it seems Bitter Melon by Cara Chow is perfectly poised to capitalize on the hype surrounding ‘tiger mothers.’ However, I think Bitter Melon stands well on it’s own merits. Frances, a high school senior, has spent her whole life following orders from her domineering […]
‘Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something’ On The False Princess by Eilis O’Neal
February 3, 2011
The False Princess
False Princess, I’ll tumble for ya. There are WIZARDS and CONSPIRACIES, and ROYALTY, and WUV TRUE WUV.
Retro Friday Review: Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
January 28, 2011
Retro Friday Reviews are hosted by Angie of Angieville. I am pretty sure I needed Alanna in my life when I was in middle school. This would have perfectly complimented my Sailor Moon obsession. (I mean kick ass girls doing kick ass thing). I read a lot of fantasy as a kid. However, most of […]
Review: Starcrossed by Elizabeth C. Bunce
January 26, 2011
Digger was born under the thief’s moon. It would seem she is fated to a life of stealing. On the run from a KGB-like police force known as green men, Digger convinces a group of nobles floating along on a boat that she is one of them, a noble. As luck would have it, Merista […]