My Thoughts: Brilliance was one of my favorite books of 2013, and I’ve eagerly awaited the release of the second installment in this sci-fi thriller series featuring a world where 1% of the population have startlingly enhanced intellects or abilities. The mark of a great followup is one where the book can standalone–one that you […]
My Thoughts: Have you ever started reading a book and felt like you were dropped right in to the middle of the story, even though you were reading the first chapter? Felt like you somehow missed a set of books before the one you were trying to read, so you felt so out of the […]
Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest installment of our feature. I finally got a library card (it only took me a little over a decade to do it since I moved here). As I perused the selections looking for an ebook or audiobook to borrow, Holly Black’s middle grade horror novel Doll Bones caught […]
My Thoughts: I’ve really enjoyed Jessica Sorensen’s books so far, especially The Coincidence series. I have the next books available preordered for my kindle, and I eagerly dug into book #4, the second one focusing on Luke and Violet. This one picks up a few months after the previous book left off, and Violet and […]
My Thoughts: For Ruby, Alexis, and Nick, their first call out as part of Portland County’s Search and Rescue (SAR) not only means a chance for them to help find lost hikers, but it unwittingly puts them in the path of a serial killer when they discover a dead body in the woods instead of […]
My Thoughts: Owen and Lucy get stuck in the elevator of their upscale apartment building during the blackout that cripples the East Coast. They couldn’t be from two more different worlds. Lucy’s lived their her entire life, attends private school, is often left alone now that her two older brothers have left for college while […]
My Thoughts: If You Stay starts off with an intense scene, setting the tone for Pax Tate’s character and state of mind as he’s doing drugs and in an intimate situation with a woman that’s there mostly for the drugs. When Pax overdoses on a cocktail of illicit substances in his car, Mila Hill happens […]
My Thoughts: The Pushing the Limits series has been the only contemporary young adult series that I’ve looked forward to every new release, starting with the first book that Danny, Pushy, and I got at BEA back in 2012 when we met Katie McGarry. With realistic characters in heartbreaking situations, I’ve been able to relate […]
***Contains mild spoilers for books one and two, Breaking Nova and Saving Quinton*** My Thoughts: This series has been a bit of an angsty, drug and alcohol fueled roller coaster ride. full of the will-they, won’t they relationship between two very broken and guilt-ridden people: Quinton and Nova. In the first book, Breaking Nova, Nova […]
My Thoughts: Beautiful Creatures is a book that holds special meaning for me. It’s the book signing where Pushy and I first met in person and became fast friends, but it was also one of the first series as a book blogger that truly captured both my heart and attention with it’s romantic, fearless writing. […]
My Thoughts: An eighteen-year-old Amish girl named Naomi is found dead in a corn field a few weeks after she had been shot with a shot gun. Newer Sheriff Serenity Adams had thought she’d left the brutality of the big city behind when she’d left Indianapolis and her position as a city cop to head back […]
My Thoughts: Claudia is a thirty-six-year-old first grade teacher, and she’s been dating nerdy wheelchair bound Adam for nearly one year. They have a great relationship on all fronts except for one: Adam isn’t ready to commit to Claudia, even though he’s thirty-eight and says that he’s never been happier in a relationship. Claudia found […]
My Thoughts: In The Shambling Guide to New York City (my review here), human Zoe Norris wound up working for a coterie publisher, putting together a travel guide to New York City for the supernatural creatures who live and visit there. Trouble has a way of finding her, especially after a large showdown with an evil […]
