Category: Book Reviews

  • Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter – Review

    Not If I Save You First by Ally Carter – Review

    “Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent and your best friend is the president’s son, sometimes life has other plans. Before she knows it, Maddie’s dad is dragging her to a cabin in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness.”

  • The Leading Edge of Now by Marci Lyn Curtis – Review

    The Leading Edge of Now by Marci Lyn Curtis – Review

    “Just when Grace is beginning to get used to being an orphan, her estranged uncle suddenly comes forward to claim her. That might have been okay if he’d spoken to her even once since her father died. Or if moving in with Uncle Rusty didn’t mean returning to New Harbor.  Grace once spent the best…

  • Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith – Review

    Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith – Review

    “Let luck find you. Alice doesn’t believe in luck—at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she’s been pining for her best friend, Teddy. On his eighteenth birthday—just when it seems they might be on the brink of something—she buys him a lottery ticket on a…

  • The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan – Review

    The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X. R. Pan – Review

    Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds…

  • Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming by R. H. Swaney – Review

    Lovely Seeds: A Walk Through the Garden of Our Becoming by R. H. Swaney – Review

    “R. H. Swaney brings a depolarizing voice to the poetry world with this debut collection. Amongst the topics of mental health, self-love, and social progress, readers will find a soft but powerful voice that uncovers the beauty that exists inside of all of us.  Examining life and its circle from seed to withering to regrowth,…

  • Author Interview – Christine Manzari

    Author Interview – Christine Manzari

    An interview with the author of Hearts of Stone, College Bound (co-written with Laura Ward), and The Sophisticates, Christine Manzari or @xenatine!

  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson – Review

    The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson – Review

    “First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor,…

  • Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Ianconis – Review

    Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Ianconis – Review

    “Can you love someone you can never touch?  Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass…