I really enjoyed Karen Ann Hopkins’ mystery series where the local sheriff investigates crimes in the nearby Amish community. The first book Lamb To the Slaughter introduced us to Sheriff Serenity Adams and formerly Amish contractor Daniel Bachman as they joined forces to solve the mysterious death of an Amish teenager. Now I’m thrilled to […]
I love a good detective story, and the only thing I love more is a great ghost story. The Ellie Jordan series is the best of both worlds for me, combining great investigations–digging into the past of a location to determine who may be haunting the house, and more importantly, why. And these books also feature […]
In this spin off series featuring characters from a few of her other series, author C.J. Lyons gets off to a thrilling start with Fight Dirty. While I haven’t read any of the other books or any of the author’s work for that matter, I had no problem jumping right into this book. Ex-post office […]
Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest installment of our feature. With my son’s first Scholastic book order of his kindergarten career, one of the books that he just absolutely had to get was The Duckling Gets a Cookie by Mo Willems. We’d read this one before at Barnes and Noble, so we knew that the […]
We Were Liars is one of those books that I had to think about a bit after I finished reading it. I needed time to digest the nuances, to gather my thoughts about the twists and turns, the overall themes. This is a coming of age story, a look at the lives of the luxuriously rich who come […]
Kate is fresh off of a long term relationship, and she’s looking for a new job that is challenging and is one where she will flourish. When she takes the sales development job with a firm where she’ll be traveling overseas, she must go through a hostage course to prepare her for what could happen […]
Happy Friday, and to start your weekend off right, I want to tell you about one of my favorite young adult horror books by my favorite author, J.L. Bryan. Inferno Park And it’s free through Saturday, October 25! Carter was only twelve when he witnessed the disaster that killed more than a hundred people […]
Becca barely makes it through one class of her graduate school career for a business degree before deciding to call it quits. She doesn’t feel like she belongs there with the young, straight-out-of-undergrad people or that she can really devote two years of her life to this degree right now. Her life has been rather […]
The weather in Chicago has grown cool and Halloween is almost here, so I’m in the mood for spooky tales about ghosts and ghouls and monsters. J.L. Bryan has written about some form of all of these before, but his latest offering focuses on hauntings and he kicks off a new series featuring a kick […]
Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest installment of our feature. My son started kindergarten this year and the Scholastic book fair was last week. One of the six books that he picked out was Mystery on the LEGO Express. My son absolutely adores LEGO and we’ve liked many of the LEGO books that Trey King […]
I’ve really enjoyed reading series where each book focuses on secondary characters from a previous book, letting you get to know them so much more intimately and allowing you to get their whole story. You can just join the series without having read the rest and you won’t be lost too. The Beautifully Broken series […]
Wonderfully Wicked is such a stunning and layered fantasy meets paranormal romance, and I certainly enjoyed every second that I was absorbed in this unique world where Dreamcasters and Valkara co-exist in our reality. Kalila has always been different. She’s always had nightmares instead of dreams, and the creatures in them have always been able to […]
After the fast-paced, action packed first book Icons, where we first met Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas–the Icon children who are seeming immune to the mysterious Icons that aliens placed on Earth that can stop a human’s heart, I expected more of the same from the second installment after the four teens had taken out the […]
