Welcome to the Pre-Squee, a new weekly feature here at the Bookworms and at The Book Swarm. Some books, though they might not be coming out for a few months, need an early squee — we just can’t hold in our excitement about them! Sure, we’ll do full reviews closer to the release date but […]
Welcome to the Pre-Squee, a new weekly feature here at the Bookworms and at The Book Swarm. Some books, though they might not be coming out for a few months, need an early squee — we just can’t hold in our excitement about them! Sure, we’ll do full reviews closer to the release date but […]
Liars, Inc. promised to be an thrilling Young Adult Mystery – which I always enjoy reading. So I was pretty excited about this book and even more excited that Paula Stokes is also part of the big Love Letter Event and shared a Love Letter from Parvati to Max. Unlike and so intriguing characters! Max, Parvati and […]
When I discovered the Darcy Walker series over last Christmas, I burned through the three available books one right after the other, eager to delve deeper into the fun and often dangerous world of young ADHD sleuth Darcy and her group of boys that do her dirty work. I reviewed books one through three in one […]
I stumbled upon this series in a daily email that I get with links to free Amazon books. The description for Grade A Stupid sounded good, I checked out the reviews on Goodreads, and I downloaded it right away. This series was such a refreshing, fun set of books for me, and I’m excited to […]
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 […]
There’s been a time when all I read were mysteries and thrillers, but these were all Adult books! Recently, I found quite a few Young Adult books with Serial Killers that I found highly fascinating and thrilling! Here are a few of my favourites and some I think I might have to pick up soon, I […]
The world definitely seems to be heading towards darker days lately, in terms of the financial landscape and in the violent and disconnected way that our society exists today. In The Forever Man: A Near-Future Thriller, author Pierre Ouellette paints a bleak picture of the direction that America is headed. The divide between the rich […]
That alluring sunset over the calm, warm waters just pulled me in on the cover and had me eager from page one to see what data analyst Dani Britton was up to after the events of the first book, The Widow File. After her coworkers at a high end security company were brutally gunned down […]
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 […]
Among all these contemporary books filled with angst, I so often enjoy a good murder mystery – so I picked up The Secrets of Lily Graves by Sarah Strohmeyer in hopes to find an engaging murder mystery that keeps me entertained! Strange Edgy Setting & Interesting Characters Relations Lily is actually a pretty memorable character, which […]
Having not read Hunting Lila, even though I heard so many wonderful things about it, I was especially eager for The Sound. Also, since The Sound has been already out in the UK and people were super excited about it, I was thrilled to dig into this story! Beautiful Setting filled with a wonderful heroine, […]
My Thoughts: After the unexpected death of her husband and followed by the loss of her unborn child a few months later, Charley’s life is in a tailspin. She’s isolated herself, only working and staying at home to mourn in solitude. After a year she decides that it’s time for her to move on, and […]
