Audiobook Review – Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

Audiobook Review – Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy

What happens when one decision turns into your worst nightmare? Maile Meloy's newest novel explores this question when two cousins and their families go on a cruise to South America. During an expedition off the ship, a group of passengers explore a local beach. A group ...

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Book Review – Mists of the Serengeti by Leylah Attar

Book Review – Mists of the Serengeti by Leylah Attar

Leylah Attar's MISTS OF THE SERENGETI takes readers on a African adventure to a coffee farm in Tanzania and through the vast expanse of the Serengeti, introducing readers to Rodel and Jack and their quest to save children in danger. Leylah Attar's ability to bring readers ...

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Book Review – Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Book Review – Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock is an exceptional book. I'm at a loss for words. Matthew Quick's grasp on a lonely, depressed teenager "at the end of his rope" is realistic and incredibly sad. Getting to the core of Leonard Peacock broke my heart and I felt for him so ...

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Book Review – Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Book Review – Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Book Review: I've been wanting to read this book for a long time. I absolutely fell in love with Will and Lou's moments together. Characters with that kind of chemistry are rare. These two came to life on the page. But Lou's characterization and growth from beginning to end ...

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Book Review – My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young

Book Review – My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young

Book Review: I picked up this book on Book Outlet because the premise looked really good. It's a British novel about World War I and pain of being torn apart from your loved ones. The title, the cover, and the summary all drew me in promising an epic love story about ...

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Book Review – Life Unaware by Cole Gibsen

Book Review – Life Unaware by Cole Gibsen

Book Review: Life Unaware is young adult novel about teenager who went from being the top of the social ladder to the very bottom, becoming a victim of bullying after being a bully herself. I liked this young adult novel, but I believe it may be more appealing to younger ...

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Book Review – Marrow by Tarryn Fisher

Book Review – Marrow by Tarryn Fisher

Book Review: I can't stay the way I am. I don't remember what it's like to be free. To be wide open without fear. I need something to break me. Just enough so that I have new pieces to work with—make them into something else. Tarryn Fisher takes readers to a dark, moldy, ...

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Audiobook Review – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Audiobook Review – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

4/15/2018 - HUGE SALE! This book is a 70% off for TODAY ONLY! Buy the Book! Book Review: A famous actor reciting the final lines of his life dies onstage. A woman looking out over an seemingly infinite sea towards a fleet of shipping boats, ponders a fictional world ...

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Book Review — When Reason Breaks by Cindy L. Rodriguez

Book Review — When Reason Breaks by Cindy L. Rodriguez

Book Review: When Reason Breaks is Cindy L. Rodriguez's debut novel and I have to say that I really enjoyed this heartbreaking young adult novel.. Rodriguez's sheds light on a dark topic and the delicacy by which she does is admirable. Weaving in bits of Emily Dickinson's ...

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Book Review – Time Stands Still by Lori L. Otto

Book Review – Time Stands Still by Lori L. Otto

It's nearly impossible to write a review for this book without spoilers, so I'm going to write two reviews:  A non-spoiler review and a spoiler review. My non-spoiler review: I'm going to come right out and say it.  Book one (My Review) gutted me, but I loved that it did. ...

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