Isle of Blood and Stone is the first book in a new duology by Makiia Lucifer, and the first Historical Fiction book that I've read this year. As a genre that I don't normally dip into, it should be noted that I'm still getting my bearings in books like this. It makes my reading of them take a little...
Again, I'm super stoked for another chance to tell you about a brilliant book right before its release.... Many thanks again to the The Fantastic Flying Book Club for including me on the blog tour! This novel is a YA fantasy with undertones of mystery, a ‘treasure hunt’ of sorts, and holds themes of...
The Spanish Flu outbreaks and Cleo Berry is in a boarding school temporarily, while her brother and his wife enjoy a trip away. She's an orphan. When the flu breaks out she decides to go home and then feels compelled to try to help, so she finds herself in a hospital, finds that it is truly terrib...
I did not want this this book to end. Details were great, very vivid and at one point I almost threw up with the main character. I really wish it was longer, I wanted more to happen and I felt like the ending went too quickly, but that was the only issue I had. spanish flu is a b word and tor...
An interesting story, but at the end I felt like nothing had happened. Cleo goes through some difficult things, but in the end it didn't feel like she changed that much. This would be find except that at the end of the book I got the feeling I was supposed to think she changed a lot. There are som...
This was such an amazing book! I won a ARC through Goodreads and ended up finishing it within a few days of receiving it, because I just could not put it down. This is a quick-read and a beautiful work of historical fiction. It has something for everyone; suspense, romance, philosophy, drama. A very...
This review and others are posted at Inspiring Insomnia.Cleo Barry is a normal high-school girl, with normal high-school girl-type concerns in Portland, Oregon in 1918. All of her friends have their post-high school lives figured out: marriage for some, or college, or traveling. But Cleo has "no p...
3.5/4 Stars...Full Review to come.
Review first appeared on fefferbooks.com.A Death-Struck Year is Makiia Lucier's debut novel and I hate to say it, but it shows. I didn't dislike this book--far from it. I thought the plot was interesting, the characters were mostly well-done, and the setting was great. I just wanted a little...more....
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