4.5 stars To be honest, I started reading this book like two years ago and didn't really get into it but now it was part of my TBR challenge and I am SO glad I picked it up! this book got me guessing and theorizing until the last few pages and it was fast paced and engrossing. This book was a ...
It’s very rare to see colonialism in YA/Children’s fiction through the eyes of the ‘lesser’ culture. Aside from the ‘slavery is bad and you should feel bad’ books I read as a kid (mostly through American Girl), the global ramifications of colonialism aren’t as widely known in America. Oh, sure, the ...
This is a DNF - just can't get into the story.
Originally Reviewed At: Mother/Gamer/WriterRating: 5 out of 5 Controllers, Crown RatingReview Source: ARC from PublisherReviewer: AimeeKay“A story must unfold from the beginning of its journey, in order that its destination satisfy the human heart.” – Mother Deborah Oh and what a journey did this ...
“But we can still be saved, my children, if we look to the Lord and the Lamb and their Apostles, and obey their rules.”THE CROSSING was not a book I had heard much about until a fateful email drew my attention to it. I’d heard about it vaguely in the past, that it was originally from New Zealand and...