There are so many applaudable characteristics about Accused by Lisa Scottoline that I don’t know where to begin! For starters, there’s strong female characters with successful careers, suspense in the form of a murder case that is being reopened after 6 years, and the most hilarious Italian family that made… Read more »
Phew, I’m not really sure how I feel after reading Boring Girls. What an unsatisfying, yet perfect ending to Rachel’s crazy story filled with metal music, struggles of making it in a band, and what happens when one bad day ruins your entire outlook on life. All the links are to… Read more »
By no means is The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things a terrible read, but due to the massive amounts of cheese and the difficulty of suspending my belief…this was not my cup of tea. This is essentially about two teenagers who confide in one another about their troubling past and… Read more »
I’ve never actually read any of the Lemony Snicket books so I wasn’t doing any comparison here with WE ARE PIRATES. I thought the premise sounded good so I was excited to give it a try. The cover is gorgeous. That big red slash you see across the bottom half… Read more »
When My Heart Was Wicked had me questioning at times if magic in this book was supposed to be real or if we were supposed to view Lacy as an unreliable narrator due to her troubled circumstances what with her father’s recent death and her being uprooted from the home she… Read more »
I don’t even know really what to say about Cut Me Free. I wanted a deep emotional dark and disturbing read about a young voice who grew up in isolation and abuse, like maybe Room or A Stolen Life…but I should have known that because this is a YA, it’s… Read more »
“The Tragedy Paper” by Elizabeth Laban is a fun winter read. It’s been a while since I’ve read a dual narrative, and more times than not, books written with a dual narrative tend to be written poorly. That’s just my opinion, but the ones I’ve read have always seemed to… Read more »
TRUTH: Afterworlds is like watching a crappy home-made documentary (and not the awesome kind like I Know that Voice or the ones about serial killers like Aileen Wuornos). It’s about the publishing business. This is a bad case of i-shouldn’t-have-watched-that- documentary-on-slaughtering-meat because now I don’t want any. Except it’s i-shouldn’t-have-read-that-book -about-publishing… Read more »
I picked Where’d You Go, Bernadette up as it is our October Stonecreek Book Club book, and it is in an area I haven’t read a book in for years. Regular fiction. Whoa! I absolutely adored this book. It is in the contending spot for favorite book of the year…. Read more »
Just finished and I still have no idea how to feel. I’ll Meet You There is one that impacts you that’s for damn sure. It feels so…incomplete, but at the same time, it’s perfect. Where do I even begin? The story is very simple, very slow-placed, and very character driven…. Read more »
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