I liked this book. It’s about a teenage girl who through a twist of fate gets involved in hunting for an ancient treasure and fighting off crazy religious cults. Yes, more than one. :) In spirit, it’s a lot like The Da Vinci Code except that it has teenagers for main characters instead of adults. An...
To say that The Book of Blood and Shadow is a YA version of The Da Vinci Code is a fairly apt comparison: puzzles within historical documents, intrigue, and murder are definitely important pieces of this story. And though I wasn't crazy about The Da Vinci Code, I absolutely loved the adventure that ...
One night changed Nora's entire world. Before the night, she was a high school student assisting with a Latin translation project for a professor along with her boyfriend and one of her best friends. But there are more people interested in the translations than she could have imagined, and they are ...
This review is also on Living for the Books3.5 starsAt first, The Book of Blood and Shadow was hard to get into. Even with the first sentence in the book being "I should probably start with the blood." That was enough to get me interested but after that it was so boring and confusing. It took me for...
The blurb of this book definitely makes it sound exciting. It's what drew me to the book in the first place. But it also makes it sound like a 'typical' YA novel - it doesn't reveal what's really hidden within this book.And that just happens to be something original, exciting and very refreshing. Wh...
Originally posted on my blog Chasing Empty PavementsThis book was floating around the blogosphere like crazy last year, and I *finally* got around to reading it. I remembered people getting confused because it came in the rush of books with similar titles-- Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor...
I listened to this book, and while I liked the narration, I think I would have liked the book more if I had read it. It was a little slow going for me in the beginning, and then I had a hard time paying attention pretty much every time one of Elizabeth's letters was being read.I had this solved a lo...
I find myself in the odd place between knowing this is a great book and not enjoying it as much as I wanted to. There is so much that this book has going for it but there are also quite a few things that brought it down for me.The book starts off rather strong with a great opening line and a seemi...
Check this review out our blog!5 StarsReviewWow. My mind was just blown. What a twist ending. There were so many surprises. I was constantly guessing about who the suspect was, and it was so much fun.I loved Nora. Every step of the way you can see how she thinks, her chain of thought, and how she in...
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