Do you all still remember when we meet Aria and Perry for the first time ? I remember falling hard for both them and then the world building totally blew me away. Now, all good things must come to an end …. Ultimate Showdown! It’s time to take action and it’s now finally time to […]
Sophie Jordan is know to write wonderful romances and has often some super unique story lines with the Firelight series being definitely a Paranormal YA that stood out. Now, the premise of Uninvited promised to be an exciting read, I didn’t want to miss! We’re Just The Sum of our Genes? The future painted in […]
And … amazing was what I was hoping for as it seemed like the perfect book for me! Love, romance with a cute badboy. The Cute and The Normal Girl Wren is just the average girl. She’s plain and honestly a little boring and she’s very very quite. This she’s been told by so many […]
The Midnight Of The Soul The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson is one of those books that hooks the reader with its dark, cynical humor and slowly reveals itself to have far more depth that one would have thought. In the narrator, we have presented a figure from the most debauched corners of the devil’s playground. […]
One Boy The Sum Of All Kisses by Julia Quinn starts off with a flash back to the night that Hugh Prentice and Daniel Smythe-Smith dueled, a night that irrevocably changed their lives for the worse. We know from the previous book in this series, A Night Like This, that Huge and Daniel are able […]
The Shining Like so many Stephen King fans, The Shining was one of his books I enjoyed thoroughly. I read it after I saw the Stanley Kubrick film version and the book is by far creepier. I loved how Stephen King imbued the hotel with a preternatural malevolence. So it was with great expectations that I […]
A Powerful Work Of Art It’s not often that I read something and am struck by the sheer weight of how profound it is, but that is exactly what happened when I listened to this play. Intimate and yet at the same time universal, Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar completely undid me, leaving me deeply moved. Set in […]
Many Worlds I fell in love with Anna Jarzab’s writing a few years ago, when I listened to (in one of my very early audiobook forays) her absolutely stellar, stand alone novel, All Unquiet Things. So when I heard at BEA that Ms. Jarzab was putting out a sci-fi, YA novel this year, I was […]
Schoolyard Schadenfreude It takes a particular kind of author to shine a light into the intricate, often insensible, inner workings of parental/school politics, but Gill Hornby does so with a deft hand. With a clear eye and often a wry smile, Ms. Hornby takes us into the lives of these women and lets us see […]
Maggie Stiefvater is one of the most talented writers I know, she has a crazy unique lyrical voice that gives her stories a touch of wonderment. With “Raven Boys” , the beginning of a new series she absolutely outdid herself in my opinion and I ended up being head over heels about this book. Needless […]
Holly Black’s twist on vampirism, perhaps with more pathology than psychology, brings a fresh new look to the popular mythos of vampirism. I very much enjoyed the effort and thought that went into the world building Ms. Black created and how it was both familiar and fresh at the same time. At it’s heart, this […]
Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris continues the story of Janelle Tenner and thank goodness for that! When we leave her at the end of Unraveling her world has fallen to pieces around her. People she loves are dead, the world is in chaos and the boy she loves, Ben Michaels, has just left to go back to his […]
Pushy: Ahh…Jane and David. It was with immense pleasure that I delved back into the world that Mary Robinette Kowal built for them. Magical is such an inadequate word for the rich, lush, amazing alternate history Regency era world of the Glamourist Histories, and Without A Summer is as exceedingly enchanting as its predecessors. Heather: Stepping back […]
