What an amazing book! I really wasn't expecting much when I started this book, but I read it in one sitting. It's now 1:15 am. But once I got into the story of this young woman and her trials and tribulations, I couldn't get enough of it. She's on the edge of womanhood. Her family's come on some h...
***This review has also been posted on The Social Potato I am now officially calling 2016 the year of the meh books because I have yet to read a book that has truly blown my mind and makes me want to roll around in the mud with joy. Banished is by no means a bad book, I would actually say that on th...
Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths Little was a tale that I was totally and completely absorbed in. The details, the characters, the storyline…everything! And with an ending that left yearning for what’s to come next, it’s without a doubt that this book is high up on my “must read” books of 2014. The ...
***This review has also been posted on The Social PotatoI think this book should be renamed to All The Bad Things That Can Happen to Jayden Over the Course of the Book. I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING. Jayden has the worst luck in the entire world. From the beginning of the novel to the end, tragedy seems to ...
Disclaimer: The above blogger watches and laughs at a lot of fringe history shows on H2 and related networks. Even though most of the things that come out of these hosts’ mouth is poppycock, the stuff they base their crazy theories on is fascinating. And because she likes the concept of them and is...
I might’ve liked this book better if I was 30 years younger. Age and constant reading add experience, and what might’ve flied for a silly child doesn’t satisfy a mature reader. The book starts well. The heroine, twelve-year-old Larissa, lives above an antique store with her parents, who own the stor...
Arc provided by Scholastic through Netgalley Normally I don't have any problem reading the so called "Middle Grade" books. In fact I have been lucky enough to have been reading some amazing well written, and spell binding stories that could place the so called adult ones, to shame. Now _DUE TO...
To say that The Healing Spell touched me is an understatement, but I can't quite find the words to accurately describe how much I truly adored this book. Filled with lessons, angst-driven at times and completely uplifting at others, it is one of those books that truly made a mark on my life as a rea...